Hey guys,
I've been getting intermittent BSODs for a long time. The machine is just under four years old (October 2011) and they started happening a few months after I got it. I foolishly just ignored them because they were very intermittent (once every 3 weeks or so).
Lately they've been getting far more common, often more than once per day, and it's driving me insane. It's always one of three errors: Uncorrectable Hardware Error (0x124), Kernal_Data_Inpage_Error (0x7A) or A Clock Interrupt Was Not Received on a Secondary Processor Within the Allocated Time Interval (0x101).
System specs:
OS - Windows 7 (original OS, pre-installed on system)
x64
System is about 46 months old, OS never been reinstalled.
CPU: Intel i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz Quad Core
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series (Overclokers order history says
OcUK ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card)
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V
Power Supply: Corsair RM Series 850W
As for system manufacturer and model number, the information doesn't seem to be anywhere. When I check system information, it simply says 'System manucturer' and 'System Product Name' under System Manufacturer and System model. All I can find is the name of the system from my order history from Overclockers.co.uk (the company which built the machine - perhaps they cut corners?). That is:
"Titan 8200i Spinosaur" Intel Core i5 2500K 3.40GHz @ 4.40GHz DDR3 Quad Core Gaming PC
Might be worth noting the system has a 120GB Solid State as boot drive (
OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G.20). We had a theory that this was the problem, and I got some respite when we updated the firmware on it and it didn't crash for seven weeks. However, it then got back to its old self, so this was probably a fluke.
So far the only thing I've ruled out for certain is the PSU. Someone told me they had a similar problem a few weeks ago and was almost certain it was the PSU, so I bought and installed the Corsair RM850 (it's brand new, crashes happened long before I put it in). I also saw a thread which said the Belkin USB Wireless device I have can cause problems with Windows 7, but after updating the drivers a week ago I just got another crash today (Hardware error).
I'm desperate to get to the bottom of this once and for all, so thanks in advance to anyone who takes a look at this. I'm not the most computer savvy person on the planet so feel free to give me the 'Explain like I'm five' treatment if necessary, particularly if I have missed something obvious in this post.
Thanks
