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BSOD BCCode 124 - random freezes that sometimes lead to BSOD

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  • Windows 7
  • Blue Screen
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November 17, 2013 9:59:26 PM

So this has been happening for a while now, but recently it has been more frequent, not sure why.

Sometimes when I am playing games, listening to music or watching videos (MKV 720p x264 on VLC Player) the computer pauses for a few seconds and makes this angry buzzing noise from the speakers, I suspect the noise is just a side effect of the freezing though.. these pauses seem to be getting more frequent, sometimes just very short buzzes.. sometimes long ones.

Sometimes they produce BSOD, sometimes they don't.. today one of them did..

The hardware:

  • Asus P7Z77-M
  • Intel Core i5-2500
  • 650W PSU - seems to be failing, but not the cause - already tested another psu
  • 8GB RAM
  • NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti
  • 2TB HDD - ST2000DL003-9VT166- Operating System (Win7 Pro)
  • 1TB HDD - ST31000528AS - Data
  • 500GB HDD - WDC WD5000AAKS-65A7B0 - Data


  • CPU-Z Report: http://ursocarrinhos.com.br/THEPC.html


    BSOD Report:
    1. Problem signature:
    2. Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
    3. OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
    4. Locale ID: 3081
    5.  
    6. Additional information about the problem:
    7. BCCode: 124
    8. BCP1: 0000000000000000
    9. BCP2: FFFFFA8011C59028
    10. BCP3: 00000000BE000000
    11. BCP4: 0000000000200151
    12. OS Version: 6_1_7601
    13. Service Pack: 1_0
    14. Product: 256_1


    I haven't been able to narrow down what is causing this problem. I used to have the bios setup to this "smart overclocking" which basically bumps it up on demand, I think.. I have a temperature monitor always running so I know it's not overheating.. right now it is on the normal mode, but it's still happening.

    I can't recall correctly, but I think that when the lock up occurs, there is a spike on the CPU usage, which might be caused by the system (I found this using Process Explorer).

    All drivers are up to date.

    I ran Hyper Pi on 32M for 10 minutes, I had my music playing during it as well to check if it'd interfere with the audio like I previously described, but nothing interesting happened besides some lag.

    The length of the spikes vary quite a bit, anywhere between a split of a second to about 3 seconds or so.. I've had the longer ones when gaming

    Completed chkdsk with no errors.

    EDIT:

    I have the mini dump and a xml file produced by the BSOD, I can upload it somewhere if it helps.
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    a b $ Windows 7
    November 17, 2013 10:08:44 PM

    in the asus bios make sure the mb has the newest bios file. set the bios back from performance mode to standard mode some time it can change the ram.cpu timing and cause random issues. in the bios under ai field make sure the dram speed set to xmp profile.
    use memtest overnight from a boot disk/usb stick.
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    a b $ Windows 7
    November 17, 2013 10:24:33 PM

    First I would go to BIOS and disable half of the CPU cores and see if the problem persists.

    Then I would remove all but one memory stick, all drives except the boot drive, DVD drives and all USB devices I could and see if the problem persists.

    BIOS settings should be set to their defaults.

    Does any of this result in different behaviour?
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    November 19, 2013 8:38:04 PM

    No difference so far, but since its a bit random I'll need a bit more time to tell.

    I already had the performance mode set to normal, and the settings reset.
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