Please help: BSOD stop 124, locale 2057

Hi everyone,


I've recently bought an overclocked bundle from a company that assures me that everything went through vigourous testing before it was sent, yet I keep getting blue screens when playing games. These can happen anywhere between an hour to 4 hours of gaming. the timing is random and goes across all games.

I've updated all drivers, used the memOK provided on the motherboard and run short stress tests on the hardware using a utilty from the asus website. I've also checked the Hard drives and used the disc utility checks. All of these came back fine. I've not tried a memtest yet or anything like HotCPU.

It might be worth noting that I couldn't do a fresh install of windows as I don't have a disc and I'm not sure whether it'll let me use my product key again. I did, however, remove all updates and windows features and reinstalled these. I also found some of the gigabyte files still in the computer, but didn't feel confident enough on regedit to remove these.

I'm relatively new to this so any help would be much appreciated


CURRENTLY running:


Windows 7 Professional


Motherboard: Asus Maximus Hero VI


CPU: i5 4670k 3XS OC @4.2Ghz Quad

CPU Fan: Be Quiet! Fan


RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Low Profile Black

Primary: 120Gb Scandisk SDD card

Secondary: 1Tb Samsung Hardrive

GPU: 2Gb Asus GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II OC

PSU: Corsair 860W AX860

Generic DVD

Sound Card: Creative Xi-Fi Titanium Sound card

PREVIOUSLY running: (before i upgarded - this worked without fault)

Windows 7 Professional

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61MA-D2V

CPU: Intel Pentium G620 @2.6Ghz Dual

CPU Fan: Artic fan

RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Low Profile Blue

Primary: 120Gb Scandisk SDD card

Secondary: 1Tb Samsung Hardrive

GPU: 2Gb Asus GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II OC

PSU: Cooler Master 500W

Generic DVD

Soundcard: Creative Xi-Fi Titanium Sound card

WINDOWS RECOVERY MESSAGE:


Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48

Locale ID: 2057



Additional information about the problem:

BCCode: 124

BCP1: 0000000000000000

BCP2: FFFFFA800722B028

BCP3: 00000000BF800000

BCP4: 0000000000000124

OS Version: 6_1_7601

Service Pack: 1_0

Product: 256_1


Files that help describe the problem:

C:\Windows\Minidump\121213-18673-01.dmp

C:\Windows\Temp\WER-20607-0.sysdata.xml

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Hey Jacky, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Please read the instructions here: Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Posting Instructions, and post back with the needed information. One of our BSOD experts should be by later when able to further help. :)

A stop 0x124 means some sort of hardware error, and the BSOD happened during playing Borderlands2.

Are you overclocking? As you are getting BSODs, you should stop overclocking and run all the hardware components like CPU, GPU and RAM to their default settings.

Check if the Power Supply Unit (PSU) supplying adequate power to the computer or not.
eXtreme Power Supply Calculator
Also let us know the wattage of your PSU.

Is the computer hot? Report us the heat of the computer after a couple of hours of gaming and other usage. Upload a screenshot of the summery tab of Speccy. Alternatively, you can publish a Speccy snapshot too: Speccy - Publish Snapshot of your System Specs .

Stress test the Graphics Card using Furmark.
Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark
Let us see a furmark screenshot.

Test your RAM modules for possible errors.
How to Test and Diagnose RAM Issues with Memtest86+
Run memtest for at least 8 passes, preferably overnight.
If it start showing errors/red lines, stop testing. A single error is enough to determine that something is going bad there.

Stress test the CPU.
Hardware - Stress Test With Prime95

Let us know the results.
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Code:

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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck 124, {0, fffffa800943b028, bf800000, 124}

Probably caused by : GenuineIntel

Followup: MachineOwner
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2: kd> !analyze -v
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WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (124)
A fatal hardware error has occurred. Parameter 1 identifies the type of error
source that reported the error. Parameter 2 holds the address of the
WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure that describes the error conditon.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000000000, Machine Check Exception
Arg2: fffffa800943b028, Address of the WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure.
Arg3: 00000000bf800000, High order 32-bits of the MCi_STATUS value.
Arg4: 0000000000000124, Low order 32-bits of the MCi_STATUS value.

Debugging Details:
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BUGCHECK_STR:  0x124_GenuineIntel

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT:  1

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  WIN7_DRIVER_FAULT

PROCESS_NAME:  Borderlands2.e

CURRENT_IRQL:  f

STACK_TEXT:  
fffff880`03b6da58 fffff800`03c13a3b : 00000000`00000124 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`0943b028 00000000`bf800000 : nt!KeBugCheckEx
fffff880`03b6da60 fffff800`037a8463 : 00000000`00000001 fffffa80`06caadf0 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`06caae40 : hal!HalBugCheckSystem+0x1e3
fffff880`03b6daa0 fffff800`03c13700 : 00000000`00000728 fffffa80`06caadf0 fffff880`03b6de30 fffff880`03b6de00 : nt!WheaReportHwError+0x263
fffff880`03b6db00 fffff800`03c13052 : fffffa80`06caadf0 fffff880`03b6de30 fffffa80`06caadf0 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMcaReportError+0x4c
fffff880`03b6dc50 fffff800`03c12f0d : 00000000`00000004 00000000`00000001 fffff880`03b6deb0 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandler+0x9e
fffff880`03b6dc90 fffff800`03c06e88 : 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`0bc57e60 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandlerWithRendezvous+0x55
fffff880`03b6dcc0 fffff800`036904ac : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalHandleMcheck+0x40
fffff880`03b6dcf0 fffff800`03690313 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxMcheckAbort+0x6c
fffff880`03b6de30 fffff800`039a62f2 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiMcheckAbort+0x153
fffff880`0ce54450 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!AlpcpSendLegacySynchronousRequest+0x5f2


STACK_COMMAND:  kb

FOLLOWUP_NAME:  MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: GenuineIntel

IMAGE_NAME:  GenuineIntel

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  0

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_CACHE

BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_CACHE

Followup: MachineOwner
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If the computer restarts at its own, it is significant.

If you can reproduce those restarts, better you concentrate on the heat and the PSU next.

Jacky Price said:

Sorry, I'm still quite new to this. Could this be due to not reinstalling windows when upgrading my motherboard, CPU and PSU?

May be. An old installation with a new machine may not work perfectly. To make it work properly, what is needed to do is Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer. Otherwise a clean install is needed.