Asked By dzomlija
20-Sep-07 10:03 AM
Some of the regulars on this forum may remember that I posted a question
a while back regarding STOP 0x00000124 on Vista Ultimate x64.
Well, for those of you that may be experiencing this same problem, I
believe I've found the solution.
To recap, I recently experienced severe occurances of STOP 0x124,
sometimes as much a 4 times in as many minutes, especially after some
instensive HDD activity! It became so bad, that I could eventually
predict that a distinctive "click" coming from within my case, and a
sudden, extreme slowdown of the system meant that a STOP 0x124 was not
too far behind.
The odd thing was, that even the resulting BSOD crashed when it was
initializing the dump in preparation for the error report to Microsoft.
Most support forums, including Microsofts own, pointed to bad sound
card drivers conflicting with the video card drivers, mostly those from
nVidia. After rolling back my video driver to the WHQL drivers in Vista,
and disabling my sound, I still experienced STOP 0x124.
Because of the nasty click sounds from the case just before the crash,
I next checked and removed my RAID JBOD confifuration, and determined
that this too was not the problem, as the BSODs continued.
I was at my wits end, and downloaded a utility to check the SMART
status of my hard drives. This tool reported no faults, and claimed my
hard disks where all ok.
So right about then, I resigned myself to the possibility of losing
data to a STOP 0x124 error, and chalked it up to a bug in Vista x64. So
I'll wait a few months for SP1 to solve the issue. I could live with
that, even if my over taxed stress levels could not.
But I then noticed something extremely odd in my BIOS a few days ago.
For some apparent reason, the
_32-Bit_Disk_Access_for_one_of_my_hard_disks_was_turned_off_!
The only time I recall needing to turn off 32-Bit Disk Access was way
back when with Windows 3.1, so I turned it back on. And double checked
the settings also for the rest of my hard disks, just to be sure.
I'll keep you all posted, but it seems as though the problem has gone
away. My system is running smoothly again, and has been doing so for now
nearly 3 days straight, without any BSODs whatsoever. I've even gone
back to all my original drivers before the problem started, and have
reconfigured my RAID JBOD settings.
*Check your Hard Disk settings in your BIOS if you're experiencing STOP
0x124 errors. It worked for me, so it may just do the same for you.*
Hope this info helps!
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dzomlija
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