Intermittant BSODs, three separate errors - Windows 7 x64

BadNeighbour

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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
 

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Um, so I was going through the 'things to do while waiting for a reply' and ran the verify programme as instructed, and now I can't get the PC to boot at all without a BSOD, and if I try to do it in safemode I just get no output through the monitor at all. How do I get around this?
 
Are you using a HDMI monitor connection by chance?

When you boot the PC can you see the manufacturers logo and enter the bios?
 
No I just wanted to make sure it was not a HDMI software issue making you see a blank screen.

How long did you wait for the recovery screen to come up?
 
Sorry for slow response had to get some sleep

After choosing 'safe mode' on the windows didn't shut down properly screen I see it loading the drivers before it goes blank. I left it for 5 minutes + but didn't see anything. I'll turn it on again now and leave it a bit longer
 
Sorry to double post, can't see a way to edit the post above

I managed to get to a system repair screen and restore the PC, so it's running again. Unfortunately, it looks like this has also deleted the minidumps from when it bluescreened on start-up, so I have nothing new to attach. It wasn't a safe mode boot it was something else and I'm not sure I can access the minidump folder from it. Not sure how I'm going to get this information to you, but I'm guessing this at least means I have a bad driver or two somewhere?
 
There probably are not any .dmp files from a BSOD that occurred before the boot process completed, the best way I found is to turn off auto reboot so the bsod stays on the screen long enough to read, with a little luck you'll see the driver named on screen.

To turn off Auto Reboot Vista/Win7
Start> type/paste Advanced System Settings, from the list Select Advanced System Settings> On the Advanced Tab click on Startup and Recovery> in the Startup and Recovery window un check Automatically Restart, hit Ok to exit the dialogs, reboot the PC for the settings to take effect.

The other way is to set up verifier to verify non MS drivers A thru M or N thru Z and keep cutting the list until your down to 1 driver.
 
Thanks for the response. I'm about to leave for a short holiday but I do recall seeing where to stop the system restarting on BSOD, so I'm confident I can get the driver name from there (if not I'll just take a quick photo on my phone lol). Once I'm back in about a week or so I'll go through it and find out what's causing the problem

Thanks again, sorry for my lack of computer knowledge I feel like I've really slowed the process down >_<
 

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