BSOD 124 and 9c, have to reset cmos to boot

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My computer recently started giving me 124 or 9c BSOD's, so far have occurred when I've been playing games, and any time I restart my computer I get a 9c BSOD. The only way I can get it working again is to clear the cmos.

I had slight overclocks on both my cpu and gpu, and did have one issue about 1 month+ ago when I upgraded my video card where I tried to overclock it and it BSOD'ed on my, then kept restarting itself until I cleared the cmos.

I did away with both overclocks, and still the issue occurs. I can't run the windows memory test, because I'll get the same 9c BSOD and will have to reset the cmos in order to get the computer started again.

I tried to get the BSOD dump files, but there is nothing in my C:\Windows\Minidump folder.

some of the BSOD's:

0x00000124 (0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFFA8007E0D028, 0x00000000BE200000, 0x000000000005110A)

0x0000009C (0x0000000000000005, 0xFFFFF8000480BBA0, 0x00000000BE200000, 0x000000000005110A)

Any help of what I should try would be greatly appreciated, and if you would like any more information I will try and get it for you. Thanks in advance!


Update: I also tried to flash the bios on my motherboard and got the same result, and did a system restore with the same result as well


System:
ASROCK z68 extreme3 gen3
i5-2500k
MSI TF 2gb GTX 770
8gb RAM
120gb OCZ-Solid3 ATA boot drive
WD 1TB hard drive
win 7 professional, 64-bit
 
Solution
At stock clocks, try raising the vcore and see what happens.

You can also try memtest. It doesn't require you to boot into Windows to use.

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I just finished running memtest and no errors were found, so I'll try raising vcore. How much should I raise it? It's in offset, and I remember it being at +.05, so is raising it to +.20 enough?

Thanks again, I really appreciate it
 

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Still got a BSOD at the "starting windows" screen after setting the vcore to 1.3V:

0x0000009C (0x0000000000000006, 0xFFFFF880009F2B60, 0x00000000BE200000, 0x000000000005110A)


 

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So I had the idea of resetting the CMOS and going straight to flashing the motherboard's BIOS on the ensuing restart, and that seemed to do the trick. Everything seems back to normal

I really appreciate the help!