Blue screen of death. Need serious help.

[jayhayjay]

This is a follow-up post to my previous thread. If anyone reading this has been part of my previous thread, welcome again

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I'm experiencing a really weird BSOD crash whenever I'm playing heavy games such as GTA 5. The stop error indicates a hardware problem. Now, granted, I have an identical rig with which I exchanged each component and I still experienced BSOD. That other rig has never faced any BSOD. The stop error is 0x000000124. You can see the pictures.

- Tried stressing each component. No temp issues, no crashes, no BSODs whatsoever.
- Tried changing RAM to different slots. No change whatsoever.
- Updated and downgraded drivers. No change.
- Tried with different peripherals (mouse, keyboard etc.). No change.

I took it for repair to the store from which I bought it and they told me that they couldn't find any problems. I told them to play GTA 5 (lol) in order for the BSOD to appear, and amazingly, it didn't. It only happens at my house.

I even tried changing power cables, SATA ports etc. Tried putting it to different sockets (lol). Nothing changed.

Temps are brilliant. CPU always under 60 degrees. GPU always under 60 degrees, too. BIOS is updated. PSU is sending proper voltage. Tested it and it is very good despite being of a pretty new and fairly unknown brand. It's not the PSU. The PC is also clean, inside out and there is no dust or particles in any slot.

I'm literally going crazy. I can't find any solution to this tremendously unverifiable issue.

Any any any any any any help will be hugely appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

My rig:

Keep-Out FX 700MU 700W PSU
i5 4690k CPU
Gigabyte GTX 970 WF3X OC GPU
Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz 16 GB (2x8) RAM
ASUS Z-97 P MOBO
HDD #1 Caviar Black 64 mb cache 1TB (system + games)
HDD #2 Caviar Green 64 mb cache 1.5 TB (other)
Hyper 212 Evo cooler
Apex 3620 Vortex case

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Update to the latest bios if you have not done so already.

Do you use a surge strip or other power conditioner? You should.

And while putting ram in different slots, did you also test them one at a time? or swapping it out completely? Run http://www.memtest86.com/ 5-6 passes

 

[jayhayjay]

Update to the latest bios if you have not done so already.

Do you use a surge strip or other power conditioner? You should.

And while putting ram in different slots, did you also test them one at a time? or swapping it out completely? Run http://www.memtest86.com/ 5-6 passes

It turned out to be the CPU. I'll probably have it replaced. Thanks for the tip, though

 

[UaVaj]

how did u narrow it to the cpu? do tell.

was it a simple swap and the problem when away?

did the problem follow the defective cpu on to the other identical rig?

 

[CorsairDemon]

UaVaj, I've seen this on a few Intel Q6600 CPUs. Stop Error 0x124. I honestly could never find a cause, but I can say I've definitely had this come up before. (I think I had a Phenom 9650 do it too).

 

[jayhayjay]

how did u narrow it to the cpu? do tell.

was it a simple swap and the problem when away?

did the problem follow the defective cpu on to the other identical rig?

Indeed. I swapped CPUs with the other rig and I played GTA 5 on both rigs at the same time. The one with my CPU crashed in five minutes while the other worked greatly.

 

[VirtualLarry]

UaVaj, I've seen this on a few Intel Q6600 CPUs. Stop Error 0x124. I honestly could never find a cause, but I can say I've definitely had this come up before. (I think I had a Phenom 9650 do it too).

I've gotten STOP 0x124 on both my G3258 @ 4.0 (on GA-H81M-DS2V v1.0), and on my Skylake G4400 OC CPUs on ASRock Z170 Pro4S boards. The SKL boards, at least, seemed like it happened when I didn't give enough vcore. The Haswell G3258, I tried giving more vcore, but it didn't seem to help. It would happen every 2-3 weeks or so, on my 4.0Ghz G3258. There was some pretty massive vdroop on that board though.

 

[CorsairDemon]

Interesting, I hadn't thought about voltage. The machines I've ran into were OEM machines the ended up running fine with identical replacement chips. I wish I could figure out what went wrong with them.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

It turned out to be the CPU. I'll probably have it replaced. Thanks for the tip, though

Thank you for posting the solution. It will help others searching for help with "stop error 0x000000124" :thumbsup:

 

[CorsairDemon]

This is a follow-up to our conversations earlier.

Working on a Dell All-in-One today, windows 8 or 10 installer would not load. I grabbed a 7 install usb. Error 0x124.

Intel Pentium G3240. Swapped with i5-4400 series, works flawless. What are the odds that just a few days after this thread, I encounter ANOTHER bad chip.

The error on 8 was Machine Check Exception, and it was a bit too quick for error code, but I'm assuming it's 0x124.

 

[Denithor]

LOL.

Lottery, man, never know when it will hit. Some just slip through their QA.

I actually ran into my first defective CPU back just before Christmas, an i5 3340 in a Dell. Installed Windows 10 just fine, everything worked except Chrome. As soon as Chrome would load, it would almost immediately BSOD with a watchdog error (I don't recall the exact message). Swapped in an older Sandy i3 and everything perfect. Fortunately for me the eBay vendor had a spare he sent me after I shipped him the CPU and he confirmed the problem. No idea exactly WHY a CPU would fail in Chrome, but anyway.

 

[ronbo613]

Defective CPU, that's something outside of normal troubleshooting. Bet this thread gets a lot of visitors with Error 0x124 and will save a lot of grief.

 

[CorsairDemon]

I hope they do, it took forever to figure out my first Q6600. Tried everything, but then I said let's do the chip. And the rest was history.

Error 0x124 = Bad CPU (for googlers)