BSOD 0x00000124 Hardware issue

Downloading unbuntu 14.04.03 now, says it'll take a couple of hours
 

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Either one will be a good choice. No, it will not do anything to your OS unless you install it. It is a Live CD/USB you can run and try it out. nothing you download from the internet will be saved, but you can and use it in that session. It runs out of ram and nothing is written to your hard drive. We use it a lot of times to recover data from hard drives that won't boot and just for testing at times. As long as you don't click install, it will change nothing.
 

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external hhd bay

I am going to have to wait until Friday to test the Umuntu iso. In the mean time, I was able to borrow a laptop and put the hard drive in an external bay. What can I do to narrow down a driver issue. The hhd is seen with all of it's files, etc.
 

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I would back up all my personal files to an external source first. As far as checking for driver issues, I don't know of any way unless you can boot into the hard drive, which I do not suggest you trying on another machine. Do you have an extra hard drive you can put in your machine?
 

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    EVGA 280 AIO
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I have a new hhd, I'm somewhat familiar with easy transfer, but I wasn't able to run on the old drive before the crash. Can I still use easy transfer? Both hard drives have Windows 7
 

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MSI R5 5450 1gb ddr3
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500 gb Seagate
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You can't run easy transfer on the old drive and I would not want to anyway. You may be transferring some things you don't want to transfer. You can just copy/paste from one drive to the other or drag and drop anything you want. Also, you say they both have Windows 7 on them. If the Windows 7 on your 'new' drive was not installed on that system, you need to do a clean install.
 

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    Windows 11 Pro
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    Ryzen 9 5900X
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    Asus X570 Crosshair Viii Hero
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    32GB G Skill DDR4-3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 3080 FTW 3 Ultra
    Sound Card
    On Board/Sennheiser PC37X Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    3 X Asus 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    2 X 1 TB NVME drives
    PSU
    EVGA 850
    Case
    Phanteks Eclipse P400A
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    EVGA 280 AIO
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    Logitech G510s/ Logitech G13
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    Logitech G502
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    16" Mini-LED HDR600 Touch 90 Hz
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    2560X1600
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    1 TB NVME
Yes, thank you.
 

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Athlon 3500+ 939 cpu
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3 gb ddr
Graphics Card(s)
MSI R5 5450 1gb ddr3
Sound Card
ASUS Xonar PCI 5.1
Monitor(s) Displays
ASUS MS228
Hard Drives
500 gb Seagate
PSU
Thermaltake Smart 650 80 plus bronze
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Fractal Design R4
Keyboard
Logitech K-120
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Logitech marble mouse T-CM14
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Avast
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Firefox and Chrome
You can find almost all of your personal files in the Users/yourusername/ folder. There will be the folders for Documents, Downloads, Music, pictures, videos and most everything else. After you install Windows to the new drive, you can connect the old drive and copy everything out. As a suggestion, just do a basic install, download the updates and run it that way for a while just to make sure it runs and runs right before reinstalling all your programs and user files.
 

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    Windows 11 Pro
    CPU
    Ryzen 9 5900X
    Motherboard
    Asus X570 Crosshair Viii Hero
    Memory
    32GB G Skill DDR4-3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 3080 FTW 3 Ultra
    Sound Card
    On Board/Sennheiser PC37X Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    3 X Asus 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    2 X 1 TB NVME drives
    PSU
    EVGA 850
    Case
    Phanteks Eclipse P400A
    Cooling
    EVGA 280 AIO
    Keyboard
    Logitech G510s/ Logitech G13
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    Logitech G502
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    24/1
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    ESET/MBAM Pro/SAS Pro
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    Chrome/ Firefox/ Edge
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    Laptop
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    Dell 16 Plus
    OS
    Windows 11 Pro
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    Intel Ultra 9 288V
    Memory
    32 GB LPDDR5X 8533
    Monitor(s) Displays
    16" Mini-LED HDR600 Touch 90 Hz
    Screen Resolution
    2560X1600
    Hard Drives
    1 TB NVME
Unbuntu

I have the new drive installed with a fresh copy of windows, next week, I'll try to use Ununtu with the old hard drive to try to see what is wrong with it, whether is be a driver issue or what. This will be my first time with Linux, from what I've checked online, seems straight forward, so long as I don't install it over windows.
 

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Athlon 3500+ 939 cpu
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3 gb ddr
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MSI R5 5450 1gb ddr3
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ASUS Xonar PCI 5.1
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ASUS MS228
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500 gb Seagate
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Thermaltake Smart 650 80 plus bronze
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Fractal Design R4
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Logitech K-120
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Logitech marble mouse T-CM14
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Avast
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Firefox and Chrome
Yes, it's pretty simple. The Live CD/USBs run straight from ram and install nothing. The only way you can mess up is to install it on your hard drive. Anything short of that, you're OK.
 

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    ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
    OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    CPU
    Ryzen 9 5900X
    Motherboard
    Asus X570 Crosshair Viii Hero
    Memory
    32GB G Skill DDR4-3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 3080 FTW 3 Ultra
    Sound Card
    On Board/Sennheiser PC37X Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    3 X Asus 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    2 X 1 TB NVME drives
    PSU
    EVGA 850
    Case
    Phanteks Eclipse P400A
    Cooling
    EVGA 280 AIO
    Keyboard
    Logitech G510s/ Logitech G13
    Mouse
    Logitech G502
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    24/1
    Antivirus
    ESET/MBAM Pro/SAS Pro
    Browser
    Chrome/ Firefox/ Edge
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    Windows 11 ProIntel Ultra 9 288V32 GB LPDDR5X 8533
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model Number
    Dell 16 Plus
    OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    CPU
    Intel Ultra 9 288V
    Memory
    32 GB LPDDR5X 8533
    Monitor(s) Displays
    16" Mini-LED HDR600 Touch 90 Hz
    Screen Resolution
    2560X1600
    Hard Drives
    1 TB NVME
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