BSOD when playing Starcraft 2

[Ttone]

Some Specs
AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 630 Processor
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
4.0 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB
589 GB / 916 GB HDD

 

[Dsprague]

please start by doing the following:

Uninstall Daemon tools, once daemon tools is uninstalled please download and run this tools:

DuplexSecure

when the tool runs if the uninstall button ids grayed out you are done and you can close the window. If it is not click it and allow the tool to run. DO NOT click the install button it will install a driver Known to cause BSODs on your system.

let us know the results

 

[Ttone]

It happened again after a few hours of gameplay of another game

 

[Dsprague]

It seems that the error you are getting now is a 0x124 error which usually indicates a hardware problem.

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*                        Bugcheck Analysis                                    *
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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck 124, {0, fffffa80053a84b8, 0, 0}

Probably caused by : AuthenticAMD

Followup: MachineOwner
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Taking a look at the error record we can see that the processor made a call to one of its busses and there was a time out reported causing the system to crash.

3: kd> !errrec fffffa80053a84b8
===============================================================================
Common Platform Error Record @ fffffa80053a84b8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Record Id     : 01ce152c5e66f0c4
Severity      : Fatal (1)
Length        : 928
Creator       : Microsoft
Notify Type   : Machine Check Exception
Timestamp     : 2/27/2013 20:52:53 (UTC)
Flags         : 0x00000002 PreviousError

===============================================================================
Section 0     : Processor Generic
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Descriptor    @ fffffa80053a8538
Section       @ fffffa80053a8610
Offset        : 344
Length        : 192
Flags         : 0x00000001 Primary
Severity      : Fatal

Proc. Type    : x86/x64
Instr. Set    : x64
[COLOR=Red]Error Type    : BUS error[/COLOR]
Operation     : Generic
Flags         : 0x00
Level         : 3
CPU Version   : 0x0000000000100f52
Processor ID  : 0x0000000000000000

===============================================================================
Section 1     : x86/x64 Processor Specific
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Descriptor    @ fffffa80053a8580
Section       @ fffffa80053a86d0
Offset        : 536
Length        : 128
Flags         : 0x00000000
Severity      : Fatal

Local APIC Id : 0x0000000000000000
CPU Id        : 52 0f 10 00 00 08 04 00 - 09 20 80 00 ff fb 8b 17
                00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Proc. Info 0  @ fffffa80053a86d0

===============================================================================
Section 2     : x86/x64 MCA
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Descriptor    @ fffffa80053a85c8
Section       @ fffffa80053a8750
Offset        : 664
Length        : 264
Flags         : 0x00000000
Severity      : [COLOR=Red]Fatal[/COLOR]
[COLOR=Red]
Error         : BUSLG_GENERIC_ERR_*_TIMEOUT_ERR (Proc 0 Bank 4)[/COLOR]
  Status      : 0xfa00000000070f0f

Now this type of crash isnt always caused by hardware errors, you can try updating your bios (which can be found on the manufacturers website) and any drivers on your system, I.E. sound, network, videocard. If you still receive crashes after that please run prime95 for some hard ware tests: Hardware - Stress Test With Prime95

 

[Ttone]

I am doing the tests now but I am not sure what I am looking for if it is a hardware issue.

 

[Dsprague]

Prime95 is meant to put a full load on your CPU which causes it to heat up, check the temperatures durring the test and report them here when they max out, also Prime 95 may throw errors if there is an actual problem with the processor.

 

[Ttone]

Should I do a different setting instead of "Small FFTs"?

 

[Dsprague]

For the best results select the blend test it covers the most components report back your results.

 

[Ttone]

I ran the test for five hours and counting and the max temp it has gone to was 58 C

 

[Dsprague]

Interesting... you may want to have a look at this in that case: Stop 0x124 - what it means and what to try

 

[Ttone]

Could it be relatable to the RAM?

 

[Dsprague]

it could be ram the psu the mother board or the cpu its a matter of figuring out which one

 

[Ttone]

I Think i solved it by updating drivers and uninstalling programs that were installed near the dates the bsods started to happen. Thank You for your support .

 

[Dsprague]

Glad to hear things worked out let us know if there is a further issue if in a week the problem does not reoccur please mark the thread as solved.

 

[Ttone]

The problem has been replicating itself and sometimes the pc shuts completely down and I have to unplug the power cord then turn off the back the power button then turn it back on then plug the power cord to reboot the system.

 

[Dsprague]

Can you upload the new dump files?