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BSOD Stop 124
Ok ive read the threads and resigned myself that the blue screens are a result of bad hardware. I checked the ram and removed first one chip then two and had 8 straight days of no crashes... Until i turned the comp off to replace a ram chip and wouldnt you know it they sent me the wrong brand. So i turned on my comp to call them and on startup the computer crashes again after 8 days of no problems with virtually the same error code as before.
Now barring the possibility that i have 3 bad ram sticks what are some ways to tell if its the mother board (M4A78T-E Asus), my graphic cards (GTX 295 and GTS 250), my cpu(AMD Phenom IIX4 965 Proccessor), or my 2 tb hard drive?
I just ran burnintest on my 3d video cpu and ram with no errors after 15 minutes at 100%. So im really not suspecting them as the culprit anymore.
I have two leads im really looking for some guided insight on. First the possibility that the hard drive is faulty and sending bad data when the comp first starts up or finishes up installing a program. Could it be that the same bit of memory is trying to be written to the same ram address twice causing a bsod? If so are there any tests that i could run that may trigger the crash? Second, could my mother board be overclocking itself with one of its high performance settings? It goes by three settings Rocket, Airplane, Race Car. Those are in descending order however all 3 maximize stability. I read that the stop 124 BSOD is very common in machines that are overclocked. So am i unknowingly ocing this computer?
All drivers are up to date and as i said the crashes usually occur at start up or at the end of installing a new program. Currently i am operating with 4 gb of ram. Ill post the dump files but im really looking for extended knowledge on what could be causing this crash before i end up having to rebuild a computer piece by piece.