Ok, first off, my specs:
Asus A8n SLI Premium, Bios 1303 (I think, latest off their site anyhow).
AMD A64 3700+ @ 2.6 GHz
2GB Corsair 3500LL Pro
EVGA 8800GTS
2x 120GB Maxtor Diamondmax 9+
Basically, I am getting seemingly random BSODs with Vista Ultimate 64 with the STOP Code 0x0000124. When I first got Vista I installed it on an old 20GB laptop drive to see if I liked it and everything worked great for a couple of weeks. I then did a total reinstall on my old XP32 drive.
I used the exact drivers as before but all of a sudden I was getting random reboots with a flash of blue screen. It was usually when I was using VLC player however It then happened when I pressed the top right "X" to close a program. I set the sytem to not restart on BSOD and every time it BSODs I get the copse 0x0000124.
I have Goodled this and there has been a lot of different threads from over the last year. A lot of people blame nvidia, realtek drivers etc etc. In the Intel camp, people have disabled C1E, the CPU throttling BIOS setting and that's cured it for them. Sadly, being an AMD user I have had no such luck.
The only different solution I have found is to enable 32 bit access to the HDDs via the bios. Sadly, not an option on my BIOS, but is there for the A8n32.
Has anyone experienced this and managed to get round it? It's driving me up the wall and I can't do any work in the fear of losing it.
EDIT: I forgot to mention a lot of HDD accessing can be heard sometimes before the crash, and you can hear some worrying clicking noises, something that a lot of other people have reported also, so not a direct issue with the drives.
Asus A8n SLI Premium, Bios 1303 (I think, latest off their site anyhow).
AMD A64 3700+ @ 2.6 GHz
2GB Corsair 3500LL Pro
EVGA 8800GTS
2x 120GB Maxtor Diamondmax 9+
Basically, I am getting seemingly random BSODs with Vista Ultimate 64 with the STOP Code 0x0000124. When I first got Vista I installed it on an old 20GB laptop drive to see if I liked it and everything worked great for a couple of weeks. I then did a total reinstall on my old XP32 drive.
I used the exact drivers as before but all of a sudden I was getting random reboots with a flash of blue screen. It was usually when I was using VLC player however It then happened when I pressed the top right "X" to close a program. I set the sytem to not restart on BSOD and every time it BSODs I get the copse 0x0000124.
I have Goodled this and there has been a lot of different threads from over the last year. A lot of people blame nvidia, realtek drivers etc etc. In the Intel camp, people have disabled C1E, the CPU throttling BIOS setting and that's cured it for them. Sadly, being an AMD user I have had no such luck.
The only different solution I have found is to enable 32 bit access to the HDDs via the bios. Sadly, not an option on my BIOS, but is there for the A8n32.
Has anyone experienced this and managed to get round it? It's driving me up the wall and I can't do any work in the fear of losing it.
EDIT: I forgot to mention a lot of HDD accessing can be heard sometimes before the crash, and you can hear some worrying clicking noises, something that a lot of other people have reported also, so not a direct issue with the drives.
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