BSOD while gaming

I posted a while ago about having hard lock-ups while playing steam games, and we were unable to figure out the problem. One of the problems was that there were never any stop codes. Well lately I've been getting crashes while gaming again, some on non-steam games, except now they're sometimes producing BSODs and the associated dump files and stop codes.

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: FFFFFA8007BD1028
BCP3: 00000000F60DA000
BCP4: 0000000000000135
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

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According to WhoCrashed:

On Thu 8/11/2011 4:10:30 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\081111-18688-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8007BD1028, 0xF60DA000, 0x135)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.


On Thu 8/11/2011 4:10:30 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal!HalBugCheckSystem+0x1E3)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8007BD1028, 0xF60DA000, 0x135)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.


So, possibly a hardware issue. Anyone have any suggestions to tracking down the fault? I really don't know what to do to beyond what I've tried already in the above linked post. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi toyotomi,

This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.

If I remember correctly you have a newish home built computer, a high end one with excellent cooling too.
I can't think of anything we haven't covered already in your last thread. You may be experiencing a possible video driver corruption, or it's just a problem with steam games (not uncommon it seems) and your new hardware.

You could try uninstalling your graphics driver and installing a different version. If you have the latest one, maybe there is an earlier driver that works better with steam games? Have you tried presenting your problem in the Steam Forum which might be of some help?.

Your not overclocking anything are you?

Cheers,
Lee