sigh i guess i'll type it all up again. It was 4 paragraph's with picture and everything. /Rant..
Mods plz delete my other post if ever shows up
I googled the problem and it led me to this forum post.
I have the same exact problem as the OP has told us about. out of no-where, the screen will turn solid red. It has happened about 5 times already, and started yesterday night shortly after installing my new GTX 680 and Asus Motherboard. Out of those 5 times, I only got a error dump once from windows.
Error code 124. BlueScreenView says it has something to do with NTOSKRNL.EXE. Upon further research, this error is related to Hardware Failure.
I'm a computer technician, do it for a living, so i've done extensive testing on all of my hardware. Memory test were fine after 3 passes. Hard Drive test is fine. Stress test CPU is fine,, Stress test GPU is fine. I can play any game, including Battlefield 3 maxed out, without any problems. The red screen only happens while i'm doing stuff on desktop. So far anyways.....
Just before this started happening i was getting the famous BSOD 116 while gaming (before i bought this new GTX 680 and Asus Rampage III Motherboard). This is usually a problem with the graphics card or PSU. So i bought a new Motherboard, and Graphics Card. Got the new motherboard since it was on sale and i wanted something that supported USB 3.0 and Sata 6. I had doubts about it being the power supply, since corsair usually makes good ****, and the PSU was only 7 months old. So I just ran with the new mobo and Graphics card to see if my problems would end.
Current Hardware Specs:
- Intel i7 920 D0 Stepping (no overclocks on anything while trying to debugg this problem)
- Asus Rampage III Formula 1366 Motherboard (newest bios)
- Asus GTX 680 DC2O Graphics Card (newest driver)
- Corsair 6GB DDR3 Ram Tri-Channel CX1600C8XXXX
- Corsair TX 750 V2 Power Supply
- Dual Seagate 1TB Drives in RAID 0
- Maxtor 500GB Hard drive dock connected with e-sata on front ports
- Dual Screen Monitors. 1 is DVI, the other is VGA connected to GTX 680 via a VGA to DVI Adapter
- Swiftech Water Cooling Kit. CPU only.
Swapped out the Graphics Card and motherboard yesterday. Everything ran fine for a few hours. Then out of no-where, my screen turns red while i was checking my email on the desktop. I proceeded to game all night playing DoTA 2 and BF3. No more problems all night.
Today i get up, check email, browse reddit, BAM, Red Screen on both monitors. (it will stay red until i cut the power) the computer does not restart on its own.
After testing everything, i have come to the conclusion that the Power Supply is at fault. I think on the GTX 680 Chipset, the Red screen happens when there is not enough power or there is a TDR Stop error. The GTX 480's and 580's would just throw out a 116 Error Stop when this would happen.
I suggest trying a different power supply before you RMA any hardware. I am ordering a replacement power supply, probably a Corsair TX 850w from amazon with overnight shipping saturday priority. I will post back if this fixed the issue. It may be a few days, because i cannot replicate the problem. It just happens randomly.
Here is the Mini-Dump (the only one i ever got out of 5 RSOD's): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3783766/dump rsod.zip
Here is a pic of the Red Screen:
Guy, I don't know who you are, but what you've just explain made much more sense then what I last posted in here.
Even though I don't GTX680 or ivy bridge. I have been running thats guys problem through my mind for the past 2 days last week.
It started to make sense when I found out there was a problem with the GTX680 I found recently.
I'm sorry to say this, but that GTX680 needs to be pulled for a service call and refixed.
Good ****, nvidia has been doing pretty good this year, but their 680 hit a bad road bump.
Especially when people are in the market to upgrade their computers during spring/summer.
Do me a favor though note which psu brand and wattage works out better with the card.
Thanks for your help and I'm sure other sites will eye this quickly when they see it on google and bing search engines.