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Battlefield 3 Crashing to BSOD, and Freezing

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Zisheng

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Aug 17, 2012
So this is my first post on this forum, and I'm really looking forward to the responses. Anyways, I've recently swapped out the motherboard and CPU on my computer to a Sabertooth x58 with a i7 950. I've been playing BF3 and after 2-5 minutes, the game freezes, and the audio goes into this horrid death loop. I can't alt-tab and the whole computer is frozen. The first three times it happened it gave me an error of "a clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor". After some googling I was suggested this was either caused by overclocking my CPU(Which I didn't overlock) or a outdated BIOS. I flashed the BIOS and now I don't receive a BSOD error anymore. What's weird is that when I play other games, like Dayz on Arma II, Minecraft, or GTA the crashes never happen. I have all the latest drivers, 12.8 for my GPU, and latest everything. Any ideas? Thanks.

Oh and here's my computer specs:
i7 950(not oc'd)
Sabertooth x58
Rosewill Bronze 1000W
Radeon Sapphire 7970(not oc'd)
2x - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB
1x - Patriot Gamer 2 Series 4GB
OCZ Agility 3 SSD

[UPDATE]: Recieved a BSOD after waiting 5 mins after the computer freezes:


Problem signature
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Extra information about the problem
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: FFFFFA8007A51038
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1
Bucket ID: X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_MAE_PRV
Server information: 52bca482-ae2a-4db2-a6eb-2445b729e253
 
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BF3 tends to be a very temperamental game, and it's known to repeatedly crash even on otherwise stable hardware.
 
Did you by chance disable your page file? If so I suggest putting it back, at least 1 or 2gb for good measure. Turning off the page file is really not the best thing to do as a lot of services still rely on it even though they don't use it per say. Turning it off on my system has resulted it a lot of problems for me and I have 16gb.

If it still crashes I would run memtest86+ to make sure your memory is not corrupt. But you are mixing different brand kits so that could be causing complications.
 
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