irregular BSOD Bugcheck 124 (0x00000124) - hal.dll win7 64bit

Brilliant.

Okay i have asked some of the other guys to come and take a look for you, as most of my knowledge goes in to BSOD's and Developing.

gazzawazza said:

HarriePateman said:

Okay i have asked some of the other guys to come and take a look for you, as most of my knowledge goes in to BSOD's and Developing.

Ok. Np.

I take it then that nothing else has leapt out at you?

Did you see my initial edited comment about my Ducky keyboard having repeated key LED failures?

I know it seems completely unrelated but it's the only other thing happening that seems unusual enough to be unexplained.


Thanks,

Gaz

Ahhh brilliant you should mention that! im going to try an explain this as easy as I can.

When Turbo mode is active it Causes an unstable system (in your case)

Judging by your specs, you have quite a beast there!

That's a lot of power your system is pulling.

When a system is low on power things start to become unstable, the same as if you are overclocking.

The LED'S on your keyboard were flickering because there was a shortage of power to power them.

The same for your CPU, its lacking in power, that's why we received a "Fatal hardware Error"

There is nothing wrong with your CPU, however they May be power dips causing it to become unstable.

Resulting in a BSOD.

Unfortunately PSU's are so hard to diagnose...

Psu's can also malfunction at a low Power...

As this can make them un-stable....

Have you got another PSU that you can swap out and try?

HarriePateman said:

Psu's can also malfunction at a low Power...

As this can make them un-stable....

Have you got another PSU that you can swap out and try?

Hi Harrie

I might have been able to use my old PSU (except it probably would have been underpowered, so would have created another set of problems).

Anyway, unfortunately I've had a disaster with my mobo BIOS and the mobo looks like it's bricked.

The most frustrating thing is that I think it was caused by the backup BIOS chip being defective.

Gigabyte's dualBIOS feature allows you to swap your main BIOS image with your backup image (in theory preserving both). I wanted to roll back to the last stable mobo BIOS, having tried their beta BIOS out (which was ok but I wanted to do a test with the stable BIOS on some settings).

You can't go back to an earlier BIOS image in the same way though as flashing a newer one - you are just told you can't do it by Q-Flash and @BIOS (gigabyte’s windows based bios update utility).

So, I thought I can use the gigabyte backup BIOS chip & its image. The swap of good/main BIOS image and older backup image seemed to go fine but on reboot, I couldn't get system to post. I couldn’t even get into the BIOS settings (continuous rebooting).

Nothing seemed to work except when I managed to trigger the backup BIOS image (which should have been the ok beta bios) to overwrite the main BIOS. This has been the only time any part of the BIOS seemed to work. However, after the copy process completed and the system restarted, it still didn't boot / went into a continuous boot loop.

So it seems like the initial image swap / write might have failed. Either that or the more likely explanation (to my mind) is that the backup BIOS chip is damaged, so both the old and the new image got corrupted when they were written to it (thus meaning that a corrupt BIOS image got copied to the main BIOS chip).

I've remembered to clear the CMOS (I've shorted the appropriate jumper pins AND pulled the battery). Still repeatedly attempts and fails to post.

I've tried pulling ALL peripherals off, using just the onboard graphics (in case the graphics card isn’t properly recognised), running on 1 stick of RAM, no drives, etc... in an attempt to get to a stable BIOS screen. Nothing works now.

I'm furious.

I've even had to use dualBIOS on an older gigabyte mobo and it worked fine - the whole point of literally swapping the 2 images over is so you don't get left with 2 duff ones... yet I think I've now got 2 corrupt images and no way to flash, as far as I know, a good image (that I've got on a USB stick) onto the BIOS.

I’ve flashed firmware plenty of times and it’s never gone wrong, until now. Just can’t think of anything else I can try.





Gary

Ohhh no Have you pulled the CMOSS Battery?