Aaaah! Blue Screen 0124 is Driving Me Nuts

artzone · #1 12th May 2009, 04:31

I've been having lots of random blue screens recently all with 0x00000124 codes (see attached screenshot) on Vista64 Home Premium.

My PC isn't overclocked. Just default settings in the bios.

I'm at the stage where I've checked all connections, updated to latest drivers and done a fresh install of vista 64. I'm still getting a BSOD so I guess it's gotta be hardware.

I've run memtest and that doesn't show any problems with the ram.

I guess I need to start replacing hardware. Maybe with a MB and CPU combo. Is that a good plan? I may go to AMD instead of intel for cost.

Any thoughts on identifying the exact problem? If I do go with an AMD combo, any thought on something that would give similar performance to my current spec.

Here's my current spec...

OS - Vista Home Premium 64bit
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 Socket 775 (2.66GHz) FSB1333
Motherboard - ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio
Memory - Corsair 4096MB TwinX XMS2 6400 DDR2 Memory Kit
Graphics Card - MSI 8600GT Silent edition 256MB DVI HDTV PCI-E Graphics Card
Sound Card - Onboard Realtek HD
Monitor - Iiyama 22" ProLite E2201W-B1
Screen Resolution - 1680 by 1050
Hard Drives - Maxtor 500GB Diamondmax2 SATA2 Hard Disk Drive 7200rpm 32MB plus 2 USB HDs
PSU - Arctic Cooling Silentium T1 With 550W PSU
Case - Arctic Cooling Silentium T1 Eco Mid Tower Case
Cooling - Stock Intel
Keyboard - Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000
Mouse - Wacom Intuos 3
Internet Speed - ADSL
Other Info - Samsung DVD RW SH-S203P BEBN SATA Black 20x DVD ± RW Lightscribe OEM

**philthomas** · #2 12th May 2009, 10:23

Try updating your sound driver, from the Asus website

artzone · #3 12th May 2009, 11:54

Thanks for the reply Phil.

I'm already running all the latest drivers and the latest bios from Asus.

**philthomas** · #4 12th May 2009, 14:31

Just as a trial, try uninstalling the sound driver and disabling the on board sound, in bios and see if that helps.
I've seen a number of folks with this issue and a lot were tracked down to incompatibilty with the Vista x64sound driver.

artzone · #5 13th May 2009, 00:35

Ok thanks, I'll give that a try.