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Can you sum up what the problem is (to the end user noticeable), when BITS errors and SMI Latency present?
My 0x124 BSOD are still here and i will low my overclock once more (CPU only), unless BSOD is related to these 2 things.

It's possible that the MSR fails and bad SMI Latency are causing these 0x124 BSOD. To know that for sure you would need a BIOS without the MSR fails and better SMI latency and that's impossible because ASUS doesn't want to fix it although it's a compatibility issue. It's the ASUS support at it's best. They also promised a few times on the XS forum to update the Option ROMs in their BIOSes but that was also a long time ago.

i'm getting the same thing. strange.

And nothing attached to the ich9r is visible as a bootable drive.

Very strange. I'm doing great with that BIOS. No issues with Windows 7 X64 or Ubuntu 64 Bit.


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The OCZ Vertex 3 likes this board and BIOS. The drives speed is limited because of SATA 2 but it runs without issues and that can't be said by everyone with different boards.

Hey guys, wanted to get your input on this BSOD (code 0x124) I got yesterday...

Less than one year ago I moved into my current apartment which isn't air conditioned besides my crummy window unit. Due to the heat in the US right now my A/C unit is barely able to keep ambient temps below 80F (27C). I seem to recall reading somewhere that the rampage formula will randomly BSOD once the ambient temps get up high enough, and I was wondering if anyone can confirm. I have passed hours of memtest, prime, linx, run heaven/3dmark, and the evga oc tool for stress and none of them have made me BSOD, but that was in the winter with ambient temps around 65-70F (18-21C). I've checked operating temps and even with the heat my CPU tops out around 55C under gaming load - lapped and have push-pull washermod TRUE. My gfx cards top out around 60-65C.

Basically is this just crashing due to the freak heat wave or is it possible I'm seeing some processor degradation? Is it likely that the component failing is infact the motherboard since my cpu and gpu temps are pretty well under control? I've been running 3.6 GHz for about two years at this point but I did upgrade from 4GB to 8GB ram this past winter and upgraded from gtx 280 to gtx 470 sli. If it is just due to heat am I better off not using the computer for gaming until after it passes (do I risk degradation due to more extreme operating conditions)? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: more details:
CPU: 400x9, 1.525V bios, 1.504V real, LLC enabled
other settings: CPL 7, FSB strap 333, nb: 1.41V, vtt: 1.34V, 100ps delay on cpu and nb
DRAM: DDR2800, 4-4-4-12, 2.2V bios
gfx cards at stock speeds atm

Don't worry it's probably because of the higher room temperature. I also had to go back to CPU Clock Skew Delay 200ps and NB Clock Skew Delay 100ps and bump the NB Voltage a notch to keep everything stable. I would also need more CPU Voltage to keep Prime95 running without BSOD but I don't care much about it as long as she's running BOINC stable in Ubuntu.