nVidia 8800 GTS 0x00000124 blue screen

[Chris D]

Hi guys,

I'm wondering if you can help... this one's stumped me a little bit, although I'm usually great with these types of issues. It seems to be an issue that everyone else is experiencing too, but there doesn't seem to be much resolve yet.

I have a PC with an Asus motherboard (Intel 945 chipset I believe), 1GB DDR2 RAM, Realtek HD Audio, nVidia 8800GTS 340MB and an Intel Core2Duo (E4300 I think, 1.8GHz).

The problem only occurs with this particular graphics card installed and only if the sound is enabled in the BIOS.

It doesn't happen with the on board sound, and it doesn't happen if I disable the on board sound chip in the BIOS.

Initially, the problem was occuring after the Windows Vista (btw) splash screen, and I was not able to get into Vista.

To resolve this I read some advice about disabling C1E in the BIOS.

This got me a bit further, but now the system would blue screen at random intervals while sound was playing. This could be the default "Click" noise in Internet Explorer, or it could be any system sound, game or music file.

I updated the Realtek drivers, and this has helped a little. I can now get away with most sounds and even play games... all for about 15 minutes; then all of a sudden I get the BSOD again.

I've also of course updated to the latest graphics card drivers. There doesn't appear to be any BIOS updates yet.

Googling the error code brings up lots of people with this card and this problem, but as yet no one seems to have fixed it!

Any ideas?

 

[Asus]

Probably just an issue that will be solved over time. Did a quick search and it looks like it happens with a number of different audio devices when you add an 8800 into the mix and using Vista.

Some say a bios update helped lessen how often they get a BSOD.
The 158.18 Nvidia driver (US) have helped a lot from the comments I read. Although not completely.

 

[staticprimer]

Have you tried disabling your audio device completely? As Asus said, there are some issues with 8800GTS's and certain audio drivers. Personally, I have an X-Fi Music soundcard and it has worked wonders for me in terms of sound quality and has not caused any conflicts with my 8800GTS. If you have the cash to spare, I would recommend upgrading to an X-Fi soundcard, if the music edition is not available, then the gamer edition. Either edition is available for less than $100USD. You should get a noticeable increase in performance in certain games, and a definite increase in sound quality all around (in my opinion), and should hopefully solve your blue screen problems.

 

[VirusType2]

Have you tried disabling your audio device completely? As Asus said, there are some issues with 8800GTS's and certain audio drivers. Personally, I have an X-Fi Music soundcard and it has worked wonders for me in terms of sound quality and has not caused any conflicts with my 8800GTS. If you have the cash to spare, I would recommend upgrading to an X-Fi soundcard, if the music edition is not available, then the gamer edition. Either edition is available for less than $100USD. You should get a noticeable increase in performance in certain games, and a definite increase in sound quality all around (in my opinion), and should hopefully solve your blue screen problems.

I wouldn't get an X-Fi if I were you. I bought the X-Fi Xtreme music edition, and have been having problems with it since I got it. This is my fourth creative product in the past 2 years, and I have had serious problems with all of them.

Out of the 5 games I tried 2 of them don't work with the card. I just emailed Creative an hour ago. this is a portion of my email to them. Appologies, It's an incomplete rough draft of the email I sent them that I saved to notepad in case internet explorer crashed or I accidentally hit F5 or something while typing it.

Sound Blaster Xtreme Music X-Fi internal card.

Brand new.

Has been acting up since installation.

Have re-installed it using all of the available resources at www.creative.com.

I carefully followed the step-by step instructions for people having problems. I uninstalled completely, deleting temp files, the creative folder, I even removed the registry data.

I followed the instructions to do a clean boot in Windows Xp

The problem remains.

When I first installed the card using the installation CD (which absurdly was dated 2005), the audio seemed to be working just fine. Playing music and other multi-media is flawless.




Then, the first game I tried, "Max Payne 2" -the sound was static from the first loading screen. It sounded like rain or a static tearing sound. I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination, since there was rain and thunder sound effects in the game at the same time.

This sound continued although normal sounds were audible over top of it. As soon as the game allowed me to play, that's when there were blips and a very loud tearing and static sound that sounded electronic. I quit the game and the problem was gone for listening to music at least.

I immmediately downloaded and installed the available essential update from Www.creative.com auto-update.

I restarted my PC and tried Max Payne 2 again, and the problem was gone.

This leads me to firmly believe that it is a software issue with the creative X-Fi card.

Since the update fixed the problem, I was happy to keep the card.


Two days ago, I recieved a game called, "Richard Burns Rally".

I installed the game, and the sound was working fine. After all of the menus I was able to finally actually play the game - that's when this horrible static sound would occour whenever the game would make any car sound. Engine idle sound had no problems though.

I tried many things that people recommended, like resetting to defaults in the X-Fi control panel, adjusting and muting things like line-in/mic, etc.

I installed the latest patch for

 

[[RnL]Stefan]

Hi guys,

I'm wondering if you can help... this one's stumped me a little bit, although I'm usually great with these types of issues. It seems to be an issue that everyone else is experiencing too, but there doesn't seem to be much resolve yet.

I have a PC with an Asus motherboard (Intel 945 chipset I believe), 1GB DDR2 RAM, Realtek HD Audio, nVidia 8800GTS 340MB and an Intel Core2Duo (E4300 I think, 1.8GHz).

The problem only occurs with this particular graphics card installed and only if the sound is enabled in the BIOS.

It doesn't happen with the on board sound, and it doesn't happen if I disable the on board sound chip in the BIOS.

Initially, the problem was occuring after the Windows Vista (btw) splash screen, and I was not able to get into Vista.

To resolve this I read some advice about disabling C1E in the BIOS.

This got me a bit further, but now the system would blue screen at random intervals while sound was playing. This could be the default "Click" noise in Internet Explorer, or it could be any system sound, game or music file.

I updated the Realtek drivers, and this has helped a little. I can now get away with most sounds and even play games... all for about 15 minutes; then all of a sudden I get the BSOD again.

I've also of course updated to the latest graphics card drivers. There doesn't appear to be any BIOS updates yet.

Googling the error code brings up lots of people with this card and this problem, but as yet no one seems to have fixed it!

Any ideas?

Is that a new system? What's odd for me is, that you seem to have several different sources of for your problems. The C1E in the bios is related to Intel Speedstep (CPU Powersaving, clocks down your CPU if it doesn't have to run at full clock speed).

The sound errors are the second problem and the card the third...at least it looks like that. Though, i don't see how sound drivers and the vid card could be related to each other, especially when it comes to BSODs.

Have you tried reinstalling Vista with C1E enabled, so it installs the drivers for it? Also, have you got the latest chipset drivers? You say you have the latest vid card drivers, have you tried the latest beta drivers? (158.43 or something).

 

[VirusType2]

Hi guys,

I'm wondering if you can help... this one's stumped me a little bit, although I'm usually great with these types of issues. It seems to be an issue that everyone else is experiencing too, but there doesn't seem to be much resolve yet.

I have a PC with an Asus motherboard (Intel 945 chipset I believe), 1GB DDR2 RAM, Realtek HD Audio, nVidia 8800GTS 340MB and an Intel Core2Duo (E4300 I think, 1.8GHz).

The problem only occurs with this particular graphics card installed and only if the sound is enabled in the BIOS.

It doesn't happen with the on board sound, and it doesn't happen if I disable the on board sound chip in the BIOS.

Initially, the problem was occuring after the Windows Vista (btw) splash screen, and I was not able to get into Vista.

To resolve this I read some advice about disabling C1E in the BIOS.

This got me a bit further, but now the system would blue screen at random intervals while sound was playing. This could be the default "Click" noise in Internet Explorer, or it could be any system sound, game or music file.

I updated the Realtek drivers, and this has helped a little. I can now get away with most sounds and even play games... all for about 15 minutes; then all of a sudden I get the BSOD again.

I've also of course updated to the latest graphics card drivers. There doesn't appear to be any BIOS updates yet.

Googling the error code brings up lots of people with this card and this problem, but as yet no one seems to have fixed it!

Any ideas?

I'm pretty sure I just read that this has been fixed in a BIOS update from Asus, but I could have been skimming over something else. I ended up at Asus forums and they had a fix up.

First thing you do is go to Asus and see whats up, or use google to find others having the problem, and figure out how they fixed it.

Also, sound and video can often have problems playing nice depending on a few factors like PCI installation slot, memory requests, and shared memory. Moving the sound to a different slot, and simply re-installing it may fix the problem.

I was just reading about all of this stuff, so I'm no expert, but checking the support of your motherboard and audio card providers should turn up something. Make sure you have the latest drivers and you don't have 2 sound devices going at the same time or anything crazy.


Re-reading what you said, you aren't using a sound card? You are saying that you have no problems with the on-board sound disabled? Shit, you can get a sound card for under $15 at www.newegg.com or somewhere.

 

[Chris D]

I'm pretty sure I just read that this has been fixed in a BIOS update from Asus, but I could have been skimming over something else. I ended up at Asus forums and they had a fix up.

First thing you do is go to Asus and see whats up, or use google to find others having the problem, and figure out how they fixed it.

Also, sound and video can often have problems playing nice depending on a few factors like PCI installation slot, memory requests, and shared memory. Moving the sound to a different slot, and simply re-installing it may fix the problem.

I was just reading about all of this stuff, so I'm no expert, but checking the support of your motherboard and audio card providers should turn up something. Make sure you have the latest drivers and you don't have 2 sound devices going at the same time or anything crazy.


Re-reading what you said, you aren't using a sound card? You are saying that you have no problems with the on-board sound disabled? Shit, you can get a sound card for under $15 at www.newegg.com or somewhere.

Thanks for the info..

I had tried all of that stuff first, of course, but none of it resolved the issue. I have tried some sound cards and it had the same problem.

No one appears to have fully fixed the problem, at all.

However, I have replaced the whole PC with the exact same model and it's now all working ok. A bit strange, but I thought in the long run it would be easier.

One comment I saw from somebody was he had built 5 PCs with exactly the same specs and parts and out of that 5 only one of them exhibited the problem.

So yeah, it's all sorted now

Thanks for all of the advice everyone.

 

[Dekstar]

I hate how hardware developers have become increasingly lazy throughout the years. Same with software. Now that loads of people have fast internet, devs can release half-finished games, and then have a patch that SHOULD have been in the final release out for the time everyone starts buying it.
It's disgraceful behaviour that should be stopped ASAP. If there are problems with the hardware, it should have been seen during testing by staff, and should have already been fixed along with the shitty DX9 emulation that occurs on a lot of systems.

Having said that, I have just bought a new system with an 8800 GTS 640mb, so I hope it works fine.

 

[Unfocused]

Having said that, I have just bought a new system with an 8800 GTS 640mb, so I hope it works fine.

Now do yourself a favour and set those CS:S settings to max.

 

[Gunner]

Now do yourself a favour and set those CS:S settings to max.

With everything on max with 4aa and 16af with no HDR at 1280x1024 my fps drops to 50-60 on some places. Makes me think this card won't be able to handle Crysis.

 

[staticprimer]

I wouldn't get an X-Fi if I were you. I bought the X-Fi Xtreme music edition, and have been having problems with it since I got it. This is my fourth creative product in the past 2 years, and I have had serious problems with all of them.

Out of the 5 games I tried 2 of them don't work with the card. I just emailed Creative an hour ago. this is a portion of my email to them. Appologies, It's an incomplete rough draft of the email I sent them that I saved to notepad in case internet explorer crashed or I accidentally hit F5 or something while typing it.

It's unfortunate that it's been giving you so much trouble. X-Fi's generally do very well with most games, and the only game that I know that has serious sound issues for nearly all cards is Test Drive Unlimited, and Atari is supposed to fix that issue in the patch. I can't really say what is causing your problems, but I don't think it reflective of the average card.

 

[Unfocused]

With everything on max with 4aa and 16af with no HDR at 1280x1024 my fps drops to 50-60 on some places. Makes me think this card won't be able to handle Crysis.

ONOZ! Slideshow!

 

[VirusType2]

It's unfortunate that it's been giving you so much trouble. X-Fi's generally do very well with most games, and the only game that I know that has serious sound issues for nearly all cards is Test Drive Unlimited, and Atari is supposed to fix that issue in the patch. I can't really say what is causing your problems, but I don't think it reflective of the average card.

Yeah, it's even worse than I thought. It's screwing up in almost every game I own that uses any kind of modern sound 'rendering'.

Emulators work great.


I got my Cerwin Vega! loudspeakers with 12" subwoofersfrom my dads house today.(where I used to live) I hooked them up to my home stereo @ 100 watts per channel amplifier. Wow this card does sound great man. Listeing to music on it is a treat, but damn if I can't play condemned, MAx Payne 2, Live for Speed, and probably most of my other games with it, then it has to go.

So I followed the last resort...

Updating/flashing my bios.

I bought a USB floppy drive today and some discs and proceeded to do so.

my computer ****ing hangs!

I kept sweating all over the place .. patiently waiting. I took a shower.

It's still saying, "please wait" in the bios flash utility in DOS.


I search the web on the family PC and it says that emachines uses a slightly altered bios than that of the intel motherboard I have.


Luckily, a hard reset and windows boots up like it didn't do anything. I guess it didn't.

I'm going to try the emachines bios drivers!!!!!


hopefuly I make it back alive

 

[Gunner]

ONOZ! Slideshow!

You completely missed the point. It will be a slide show IN CRYSIS.