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The WindowsForum thread discusses a user experiencing WHEA errors (error code 124) while gaming, specifically on ARMA, despite CPU temperatures remaining around 50°C. A contributor suggests that such errors often relate to hardware issues like overheating, but the original poster suspects a possible CPU hardware fault after encountering a watchdog timeout. The conversation includes troubleshooting suggestions such as monitoring temperatures during load and updating chipset drivers and BIOS to resolve the stability issues.

Lynx2019

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Hey guys; having WHEA's pop up after random amounts of time while playing ARMA, or generally any game, really.
CPU - Intel i7-8700 @ 3.20GHz
GPU - Palit GeForce 2060 RTX
RAM - 32GB Corsair Vengance @ 2133MHz
MBoard - B360M-DS3H - Gigabyte
HDD - 2TB HDD Unknown Make/Model
SSD - Kingston? 500GB

CPU temps sitting comfortably around 50C.
 

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kemical

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Hi,

that bugcheck of 124 is often associated with overheating.

I know you say your cpu sits at around 50c but is this at idle or full load?

Plus often temps when gaming can exceed temps seen when stress testing and a good way of monitoring your temps whilst gaming is to use an app like HWiNFO64. This gives you a potted history of sorts and logs the highest temp attained.

Free Download HWiNFO Sofware | Installer & Portable for Windows, DOS
 
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Lynx2019

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I know you say your cpu sits at around 50c but is this at idle or full load?
This is while playing the game; I often tab out to see the temperature with Core Temp; sits comfortably around 50C when gaming. I'm starting to think it's a hardware error with the CPU; as I got a watchdog clock timeout yesterday.
 

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Try updating your chipset drivers. If your running an Intel set up there's usually two, Chipset inf and engine management.

Does your system have the latest bios ect?