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I've been having this particular BSOD STOP 0x00000124 error for a week or so, but only whilst playing BC2 so far. At first I thought it might be overheating as one time there were unusual temperatures on one core of my CPU, but as I don't overclock and a couple hours of Prime95 didn't raise the temperatures much above the low 50s C. I then ran memtest for ~9 hours overnight, and came up with no errors. I've also updated every driver I can think of.

Somewhat at a loss as to what might be causing it.

My specs are:

Gigabyte P67A-UD3 (Not B3 - yes, I know, probably should get that looked into even if its nothing to do with it)
Intel i5-2500k - Stock speed, not been overclocked
ATI Radeon 5850 - Also stock, not been overclocked
2x 2Gb G-Skill DDR3 stuff - ditto ^
Seagate HDD "320Gb"
WD HDD "500Gb"

No cards in PCI/PCIe slots bar the graphics card.

In an Antec 300, with a Thermaltake 750W Toughpower PSU, with fans, working.


Thanks if anyone has any ideas, if not, more headscratching it is!

95% likely this is graphics related. Firstly has anything changed:

updated anything recently? Specifically graphics and bios drivers?
Also you mentioned running Prime 95 (tends to hammer the CPU/Memory), but have you done any temp tests specifically for the graphics card?

Having ruled out gfx card overheating, it's likely the pci-express bus (with the gfx card in) is misbehaving: have you added any new hardware or changed the slot order of any of the components? Assuming nothing has physically changed, it's likely a misconfiguration of the port:

Have a look at this MS article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956115
Essentially the max payload size value doesn't match the root port of the pci bus and triggers the exception, hotfix in the link above

Finally a somewhat more obscure one is in the bios and see if there's a setting for 32 bit disk access (or high speed access) and check it's enabled. Likely it is, but am just covering bases.

ta

Monkey


p.s. Dont use vista!

It does seem to either be overheating or something else quirky going on under high load. Still only seems to be BC2 - though that's because I'm vaguely reluctant to really hammer it beyond seeing its getting a bit overheaty with FurMark or anything similar.