BSOD/Cold booting on FEAR 3 and Portal 2 loading screens


  1. Dimefan3
    Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit
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    BSOD/Cold booting on FEAR 3 and Portal 2 loading screens


    Hi all, new poster here, so please be fair. :)

    2 days ago Portal 2 was playing fine, but yesterday I upgraded my CPU (to an AMD FX 4100 Quad Core Black edition), motherboard (Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P) and my Ram (4GB DDR 3). I figured I could just swap the components and keep going without reinstalling windows 7. But after swapping everything and loading up Portal 2 would just cold reset on me on the loading screen.

    I've tried reinstalling windows 7 today and I'm in the process of reinstalling Portal, but now another game I've just purchased, FEAR 3 is now also cold resetting on the loading logo.

    I've tried going through a few other suggestions, like running steam on just one core, with no luck. I've got a crash report below and attached the zip file. Any ideas?

    I have a theory that it might be my PSU, which runs about 550W. (Also brand new)

    On Mon 1/16/2012 1:08:49 AM GMT your computer crashed
    crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\011512-34273-01.dmp
    This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x3224B3)
    Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFFFF85F528FC, 0x0, 0x0)
    Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
    file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
    product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
    company: Microsoft Corporation
    description: NT Kernel & System
    Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
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  3. JMH
    Posts : 7,952
    Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit. SP1.
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    Dimefan3,

    Your .dmp file shows a stop error of 0x124 which is a general hardware error .
    A "stop 0x124" is fundamentally different to many other types of bluescreens because it stems from a hardware complaint.

    Stop 0x124 minidumps contain very little practical information, and it is therefore necessary to approach the problem as a case of hardware in an unknown state of distress
    Some generic advice.

    If you are overclocking STOP.
    Return to the default settings at least for now.

    If you are running a RAID update its driver.


    You can read more on this error and what to try here...

    Stop 0x124 - what it means and what to try
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