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Sparse BSOD 0x00000124 (hal.dll+12a3b, ntoskrnl.exe+75bc0) Win7-64bit
I bought my computer last year 7/27/2013. Custom build. Everything was working fine until January 20th this year. I experienced my first BSOD on this machine. I've tried rolling back graphics drivers which were the only ones I had installed recently, and it didn't help because 4 days later the same BSOD happened. The next BSOD didn't happen for another month. And recently this is my 4th one that I am attaching in the log compilation. The other dmp's were erased by me by accident but they all said the same thing when I opened them in BlueScreenView.
I will try reseating hardware and more stress tests when I have time, but I'm really lost here as its such a sparse occurrence that it makes it really hard for me to test in a reasonable amount of time. I'm hoping someone here can see what my inexperienced eyes are missing.
Here's what I do know:
- I didn't install any drivers for a while (month or so?) other than the nvidia driver which I rolled back.
- I am not overclocking and just running stock and default BIOS. Though since my 3rd BSOD I have turned on XMP for my RAM (didn't make anything worse I guess).
- The BSOD happens very randomly. Twice while I was playing fairly low resource demanding games. Once while I was just on desktop dragging/organizing files. And most recently while browsing Twitch.tv on Chrome. There seems to be nothing in common, which is really frustrating.
- It doesn't seem to be related to how long my computer has been running. The most recent happened ~7 minutes after turning my computer on.
- I have a minor suspicion it could be my sound because it's always given me issues (distorting/not being detected randomly at startup). But it is onboard and I have no idea how to begin testing it.
I will post updates as I perform further tests (will be running memtest+ thru the night, last time only ran for 2 hours). Please let me know any good suggestions. Thanks a lot!