BSOD's from hal.dll

I have previously posted about some blue screen of death issues that I was encountering. Over time, my issues subsided. However, this problem has started cropping up recently, like a bad flu. I wanted to run the following image past some of you.



I ran BlueScreenView from Nirsoft and it produced a report. From this report I created the preceding graphic. I wasn't previously aware of our buddy "hal" until running this report. I'm quite sure it's because I can't separate the wheat from the chaff in windows error-reporting-land.

How would I go about pursuing this issue further? As a point of reference, I have found that my PC is very sensitive to heat - at least seems that way. Right now my office is frigid thanks to an unexpected cold snap and I've been running well throughout the day save once this morning.

head to google and type in

" hal.dll "

there are some suggestions about how to fix this error if its actually the .dll causing the problem .

It may also be a hardware fault , and thats suggested by the IRQ messages . By any chance to you run windows vista and an nVidia gfx card?

In the interest of ensuring that these problem threads eventually conclude with some good results, I offer this advice - courtesy of the awesome Heiler (from the Major Geeks community):

The problem is due to a problem with the motherboard wherein the front side bus - running at full speed - creates a fatal error of some kind.

The solution is to underclock the front side bus ever-so-slightly. Per Heiler's instructions, I downloaded and installed Systool. The program doesn't immediately know what motherboard I'm using, so I take the following steps:

(1) Select CPU Overclocking from the list, then (2) within the Clock Generator drop-down, select "nForce4". Next (3), click the Read button. (4) Slide the FSB: slider down to at least 190.00 (I have tended to use 180.13). Also, (5) check the FSB limit and enter 190. Then (6) click on the Write button.

Presto, the FSB is underclocked and my blue screens go away. If only I could figure out how to do this automatically upon start-up, I'd be all set. At the very least, I could write a MacroExpress macro, but I will perform these steps by hand for the near-future.

I hope this is helpful.