Help with BSOD/freeze

[EdwardC]

Hey all,

Been having troubles with my new PC. Basically every now and then in certain games my PC is freezing up, I can still move the cursor for a few seconds and the sound still plays (e.g. if I press ctrl I still here my vent transmit sound) and then the cursor will freeze aswell and the sound will start to loop, the PC then hard resets.

Upon logging back into windows the reliability wizard has two logs, a unknown shutdown with bccode 124 and a video hardware error 117.

My specs are i7 930 @ 4.2 (temps fine, no higher then 74c in full burn on prime95, h70 with 2400 rpm fans), tested for 16 hours with prime95 and not one crash or error. 6gig corsair ram and an 5970. The 5970 is also overclocked to 850/1200 at 1100mv and I also ran Furmark for a good few hours and it didn't crash once (though it did crash at lower voltage). Went no higher then 84c in furmark and during normal play it barely gets over 64c.

These bsods are usually far between, sometimes 3 a week or sometimes only 1-2.

The only games I play are WoW, league of legends, BC2 and dragon age. I've never experienced a crash in WoW yet and thats the game I play most. Though I have had the crash in all the 3 other games.

Xfx support are just giving the usually answers like updating drivers, bios etc but I've done this plenty of times. Tried 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 using driver sweeper every time and also the Bios was up to date right away due to having no fan control otherwise.

At the moment I've turned off the gpu overclock but haven't had a lot of time to test it, though I don't think it will be that because It doesn't seem to crash in Furmark yet it does in League of Legends which barely utilizes the graphics cards.

So I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas to my problem or the 124/117 codes etc?

Help is very appreciated,

Thanks,

Edward

 

[nboy22]

Try disabling your onboard sound and playing without sound for a bit and see if it crashes.

If it doesn't crash you need to purchase a new soundcard because the realtek onboard sound is junk and the drivers will probably never be updated to get rid of this issue.

 

[EdwardC]

Someone told me yesterday my 1200 overclock on the 5970 memory needs more voltage so I've downloaded ati overvolt because msi afterburner doesnt have an option for memory voltage, played BC2 and DA:O most of yesterday evening and didn't crash though early days yet,

Was thinking of getting a asus xonar soon anyways so if it is still crashing I'll prob try replacing the sound though.

Cheers,

 

[nboy22]

Someone told me yesterday my 1200 overclock on the 5970 memory needs more voltage so I've downloaded ati overvolt because msi afterburner doesnt have an option for memory voltage, played BC2 and DA:O most of yesterday evening and didn't crash though early days yet,

Was thinking of getting a asus xonar soon anyways so if it is still crashing I'll prob try replacing the sound though.

Cheers,

Yeah if you are crashing definitely take your overclock off the first thing you do, and test for stability. If the issue persists, you should look into buying that Xonar. I had sound loop crashes with BC2 and upgraded my sound card from the junk realtek onboard to a Xonar DS and I have had no crashes since.