[Mandul]

Hello,

I have been having problems for a little while now with BSOD's. I have been using the program Whocrashed to try and pin point the problem which has been giving me the 124 error but as a conclusion refers more to a 3rd party driver being the cause of the problem.

So I have finally just decided to do a clean install ..... deleted partitions on drive created a new one reformatted and have gone to reinstall windows and there the problems really start. The computer keeps getting a 124 BSOD error at different stages throughout the install sometimes it will BSOD before it even gets to the stage of installing the OP and other times it will get as far as 60% through the install.

I have already removed the Video cards, removed all the ram and tried 1 stick at a time, disconnected the blu-ray and tried to install from a USB image reseated the CPU and all the cables on the PSU and MB and I have reset the CMOS with the jumpers.

Now its get me as to whether it is the PSU as I said or the HDD as it does crash before it gets to writing to the HDD but its at least always in the process of preparing to write to or actually writing to the HDD when it crashes.

My system is;

HAF X case
ASRock Z68 Extreme 4 MOBO
Thermaltake tough power 875W XT
i7 2600K stock
16G Corsair vengence 1600
2x GTX 570 OC
WD caviar Black 2T
Corsair Hydro H70
Pioneer BDR-206 BD

Any advice here would be great as I have run out of ideas on what it could be and I dont really want to be sending parts off for RMA if I'm sending the wrong parts off.

 

[gcavan]

My first suspect is the hard drive. Download and run the WD Data Lifeguard diagnostic tool for your particular drive. This will tell you if there is physical problem with the drive.

 

[Mandul]

Ive tried this, I have the lifeguard tools for DOS (CD) that I have run a couple of times and the program starts up and says its loading the Caldera DR-DOS.

But then it comes back after about 5 mins or so and says that it can not find the DLGLICE ensure that is in the same location as the .exe file (which it is) and I have downloaded and burnt a copy of that now 3 times both the ISO and .zip versions and it keeps saying the same thing

 

[montiaro]

Easiest way to find out if it's the hard drive is simply put another hard drive with a OS in there or run a live bootable CD or try that hard drive in another computer.

 

[Mandul]

Ok I tried the Live boot CD and I can get in for short periods before it crashes again.

Have got a chance to check the health status of the drive and it appears to be ok I have run disk check on it and it found no bad sectors.

 

[Tyree]

If you get "crashes" with the Live CD then your Hdd is not the issue.
I assume the 16GB of RAM is 4 x 4?
Try removing two of the RAM sticks and see how it goes.

 

[Mandul]

I have tried that I have gone down to 1 stick and tried each stick 1 at a time with the same result every time

 

[Mandul]

Seems I have isolated the cause of my problem 1 of my cores CPU3 to be exact.

I tried to in install Ubuntu and gave back 30+ hardware errors all in reference to CPU3 so I only enabled 2 cores in BIOS and now everything is back up just fine the windows install went in ok and have had no more BSOD's.


That you for all your suggestions now its just down to getting the problem fixed

 

[montiaro]

A single core went out on the i7 CPU? o.o That's kinda funny and weird how exactly that happened. My guess is that the CPU is fine but some of the hair like pins on the motherboard are either bent or broken which might be the cause of the problem. Might be suggested to reseat the CPU and check the threads to make sure they are undamaged.