GPU possibly causing PC to crash

virgil077

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Jan 27, 2018
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Hi guys

So for the past couple of months i have been plagued by frequent and unavoidable BSOD on my PC. I've taken it into a repair shop twice and the second time his assertion was that there was something wrong with the power supply. After having that replaced I am still having these crashes. Weirdly enough i can induce these crashes by doing something as simple as plugging in an HDMI cable (which is why i think it might be the GPU now), and these crashes originally started when the desk my PC is on was moved. I'll post my specs below and even a crash dump analysis from "who crashed" if that'll help. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas it would be greatly appreciated because i am at wits end with this.

Specs
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 4770K @ 3.50GHz
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 801MHz (10-10-10-30)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z87-A (SOCKET 1150)
Graphics
ASUS VS238 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (Gigabyte)
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0 ATA Device (SATA)
232GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB ATA Device (SSD)

Crash dump analysis
On Sat 1/27/2018 4:30:30 PM your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\012718-5194-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA800D44E028, 0xBF800000, 0x124)
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. This problem might also be caused because of overheating (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 that cannot be identified at this time.
 


I am going to try updating the drivers on my hardware just like the link says and check back tomorrow. I want to add that trying to install the windows updates causes the same type of crash.

Update
Right so even updating drivers seems to be a no go. I've used Driver easy and even geforce experience to just try downloading the latest driver for the GPU and that causes crashes as well.