Checking the thermal paste is one of the jobs in your list, but before that you have to check a lot other things. Because a stop 0x124 may be caused by a lot of things, and overheating is one of them.
Is the computer hot? Report us the heat of the computer after a couple of hours of your normal usage. Upload a screenshot of the summery tab of
Speccy. Alternatively, you can publish a Speccy snapshot too:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/311593-speccy-publish-snapshot-your-system-specs.html .
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 the PSU.
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.
Stress test the Graphics Card using Furmark.
Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark
Stress test the CPU.
Hardware - Stress Test With Prime95
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.
Let us know the results. Will suggest the further things after seeing the results.
And, dont start multiple threads for the same issue?
Code:
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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.
BugCheck 124, {0, fffffa800744e8f8, 0, 0}
Probably caused by : GenuineIntel
Followup: MachineOwner
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0: 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: fffffa800744e8f8, Address of the WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure.
Arg3: 0000000000000000, High order 32-bits of the MCi_STATUS value.
Arg4: 0000000000000000, 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: System
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
ANALYSIS_VERSION: 6.3.9600.16384 (debuggers(dbg).130821-1623) amd64fre
STACK_TEXT:
fffff880`035e75b0 fffff800`03ed4ca9 : fffffa80`0744e8d0 fffffa80`06d1b660 00000000`0000000c 00000000`00000000 : nt!WheapCreateLiveTriageDump+0x6c
fffff880`035e7ad0 fffff800`03db5ea7 : fffffa80`0744e8d0 fffff800`03e2f2d8 fffffa80`06d1b660 00000000`00000000 : nt!WheapCreateTriageDumpFromPreviousSession+0x49
fffff880`035e7b00 fffff800`03d1d275 : fffff800`03e90b40 00000000`00000001 fffffa80`0749ee10 fffffa80`06d1b660 : nt!WheapProcessWorkQueueItem+0x57
fffff880`035e7b40 fffff800`03c93261 : fffff880`01230e00 fffff800`03d1d250 fffffa80`06d1b600 00000000`00000000 : nt!WheapWorkQueueWorkerRoutine+0x25
fffff880`035e7b70 fffff800`03f262ea : 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`06d1b660 00000000`00000080 fffffa80`06ce4890 : nt!ExpWorkerThread+0x111
fffff880`035e7c00 fffff800`03c7a8e6 : fffff880`03365180 fffffa80`06d1b660 fffff880`0336ffc0 00000000`00000000 : nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x5a
fffff880`035e7c40 00000000`00000000 : fffff880`035e8000 fffff880`035e2000 fffff880`032cc7e0 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxStartSystemThread+0x16
STACK_COMMAND: kb
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: GenuineIntel
IMAGE_NAME: GenuineIntel
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0
IMAGE_VERSION:
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_MAE_PRV
BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_MAE_PRV
ANALYSIS_SOURCE: KM
FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING: km:x64_0x124_genuineintel_processor_mae_prv
FAILURE_ID_HASH: {435e2195-e498-1e77-0526-f8d7450275e5}
Followup: MachineOwner
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