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BSOD randomly - playing games or not - error 0x124
Hi community,
I have been getting BSODs randomly, I built this computer this June, I am not sure when the BSOD started as I was busy with university and initially I thought since its haswell it might take some time for stable drivers, may be that's why I avoided it.
Now I have time to diagnose this problem, the BSODs are random, sometimes playing game (BF3) and sometimes even when on skype. I checked the whocrashed program and it said it is caused by hal.dll (error code : 0x124).
Here's what I've done but to no avail:
- Initially I had TR2 Thermaltake (500W) PSU, then a month ago I changed to Seasonic G-Seires 650W but still suffered from BSOD.
- Prime95 fo 12 hours and no problems, all passed.
- Memtest, I think 12 passes (both modules were in at same time)
- All the drivers updated for both video card and motherboard.
- I am not overclocking anything and in bios performance is set to normal (factory).
- I thought it might be caused by drivers, so I enabled driver verifier and fixed all the drivers causing any BSODs.
- Initially when playing Bf3 my CPU temperature would go high, so I also changed my cooler to NH-U14S.
- Upon researching, I thought memory was under voltage, so in BIOS I enabled XMP for ram and after a day of enabling it, I still received the same BSOD.
My thoughts: I am thinking my motherboard is bad, since it is A series only from ASUS which is base for Z87 models.
My temperatures are good as well:
GPU 63 C (while playing bf3)
CPU as a package is 57 C
HDD 35 C
Motherboard is 33 C.
All my parts are under warranty, the only problem is I am not sure which part is bad so I could RMA it.
My dmp files attached are just of recent because after enabling XMP I cleared the Event log.
Thank you in advance for helping.
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