Gladiator Warbird - BSOD's and freeze-ups

[pk1209]

Hi guys,

Looking for a bit of help with my new Gladiator Warbird gaming PC:

Intel i5 3.30ghz running @ 4.5ghz (by Aria)
Corsair H60 Water-Cooling CPU Cooler
8gb Mushkin Blackline #996995 (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 Intel Z68 (REV B3) Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard
MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Crucial m4 128GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive (009 FW) - OS Drive
750W Corsair TX750 V2 ATX2.3 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply

PC has been great - and adding the SSD drive has made it brilliant, however, I'm getting fairly regular BSOD's and freeze-ups. Maybe 1-2 times a day. I have used bluescreenviewer to get the following log data:

Bug check code - 0x00000124
Caused by driver - hal.dll
Caused by address - hal.dll+12a3b
Crash address - ntoskrnl.exe+7cc40

The odd thing is (at least I think it's odd) is that it only really happens when the PC is idle or close to idle. Not once has it frozen / BSOD during a game, even when playing for 3-4 hours.

I haven't tried without the OC back to factory, mainly because it's not related to load. I have read that maybe the RAM is slightly under-volted, but don't want ot touch anything there and void warranties etc?

I would love to figure this out as it's the only stain on an otherwise awesome PC from Aria.

Help much appreciated.

Pete

[redrooster303]

A friend of mine got a pre-built system from aria and his did the same thing with the same BSOD code and when I phoned up to sort it for him I was told to either up the voltage a little or (and this is the better way if you don't really know how to overclock/have an average cooler) to drop the multiplier by 1.

My friends PC does still BSOD every once in a while even though it passes all the load test like intel burn test, prime 95 and the like. It only BSODS when it is idle which is weird but used to happen to mine also when I first got it (maybe something to do with offset voltage/speedstep/turbo etc.

Mine and my friends were also ASUS boards so I reckon its either to do with the way their bios runs things or the way sandybridge runs on these boards, it is weird because it will pass every test you throw at it and then BSOD/freeze at idle. I remember alot of people having this issue at launch aswell.

This (in my opinion) isn't down to Arias overclock more to do with a glitch that sometimes effects this board/chip combination (not everytime though). Strange.

If your not sure though don't mess with it.

WAIT TO SEE WHAT ARIA SAYS FIRST THOUGH:).

[pk1209]

Thanks - good response! Will wait for some Aria feedback, but sounds like a plan. I'm pretty good with PC's but never been an OC'er, so would need pointing in the right direction to make either of those BIOS changes... would also like to know the situation with the warrnty if I change something?

[redrooster303]

Aria should see you right on what to do.