AMD Radeon 7870 BSOD 0x124

markbabc

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So I recently built a new system specs being:

AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2 Micro ATX AM3+
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600
HIS Radeon HD 7870 2GB
EVGA 500W ATX12V / EPS12V

And i've been having BSOD issues every once in a while but recently it happens every time I start to boot up. I get to the windows flag boot animation then it goes black, hangs, and restarts while creating a minidump of the crash.

From what I can tell the main error is from ntoskrnl.exe and the error code is 0x124 which I understand to be generally hardware related. I think the problem stems from the power supply being too weak for the system if the gfx card is under heavy load and I believe I corrupted some file when it last crashed on 8/28/13 at 8:01. I can boot into safe mode no problem with the gfx card and can even get into the system's normal boot using the on board gfx card and can even get in using the 7870 with the default windows driver (deleting the 7870 one then booting) but once the correct drivers are installed for the gfx card the system does the same thing over and over.

So again this is the gfx card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

The other dumps before 8/28 probably dont need to be looked at but maybe they contributed to the problem I really dont know!

Any help would be wonderful as I am very stuck.

I forgot to add that I used my HDD from a previous build that was all Intel and nvidia and just let windows install the new drivers by itsself. I have not yet tried a full system re-install.

I can post the .dmp files if needed.

Also I've tried a clean install of windows, a BIOS upgrade, installing beta drivers, getting a new PSU (700w), and anything I could think of :(

If you guys are curious what others have suggested I have a forum over at pchelpforum here: http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/threads/bsod-after-windows-flag-bootup-animation-ntoskrnl-exe.156648/

Since I've finally given in the the fact that it's hardware related (a clean windows install would have fixed any software problem right?) I thought you guys could give the best info!
 
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Windows has a memory checker built into the boot options. I think you press f8 during boot to bring up the menu. If only one location or a few locations were bad on your ram, it wouldn't show up until the OS actually tried to use those locations to store data.

markbabc

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memtest86+? If so then no... I cant get it to install or boot off my usb. Windows detects it as a Hard drive and it wont show up as an option to burn as a bootable usb under unetbootin or the memtest86+ choice.

But if it was the ram wouldnt I not be able to boot normally using the standard VGA drivers which I can? (So that's having the monitor hooked up to the gfx card just using the standard windows VGA driver)
 

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Windows has a memory checker built into the boot options. I think you press f8 during boot to bring up the menu. If only one location or a few locations were bad on your ram, it wouldn't show up until the OS actually tried to use those locations to store data.
 
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markbabc

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I have actually ran that one with no errors found!