Solved BSOD rendering in AE/Media Encoder, error 0x00000124 with hal.dll

[rcognition]

Hello, I am hoping to fix an issue I've only recently begun having while rendering videos of any sort in after effects or media encoder. I have had the issue for about two weeks as you'll see from my crash reports. I haven't rendered videos in over a year before this, but did so for a living with no issues up until I started up again in late December.

The problem will cause a BSOD seemingly at random during the video render. I monitor temps and usually peaking at 65 degrees everywhere. I've tried disabling everything, running everything, nothing seems to make a difference one way or another. Some times I can make it for 90 minutes before crashing, other times it will BSOD after 5 seconds.

I've run the memory tests, the prime test, scan the computer for errors, but nothing came up. The dump logs seem to consistently point to a hal.dll error. I attempted to repair the file but have had consistent issues with the repair console and not having a cd burner or a good .iso to work off of.

I did run memtest overnight, let Prime go for an hour, and did the scans, nothing reported, did not crash.

I am not overclocking anything, running default options on everything.

Dump files attached as requested. Thank you for having a look.

 

[axe0]

You are running an Acer Product ID (PID) on an ASUS board.
This makes your installation counterfeit.
Troubleshooting a counterfeit installation is useless as it is not known what has been modified to your system.
A counterfeit installation contains heavily modified code which causes the system to behave in unexpected ways.
For this reason, analyzing counterfeit systems is unreliable and most analysts won't try it.

OS Configuration:          Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type:             Multiprocessor Free
Registered Owner:          Personal
Registered Organization:   
Product ID:                [COLOR="Red"]00426-OEM-8992662-00006[/COLOR]
Original Install Date:     1/10/2010, 11:48:09 AM
System Boot Time:          1/11/2016, 8:33:26 AM

I recommend to install a genuine copy of Windows.
If, after you have installed a genuine copy of Windows, you still get BSOD's we'll be happy to assist you.