Motherboard crashing WhoCrashed reports

Hi guys,

First off:

1. I tried to overclock, failed. Then noobishly tried to clean my case and parts, removed a massive bit of dust from the Intel stock heat sink. Then FORGOT to remove and reapply new grease. System was running at like 60c and then crashing.

2. Reset bios by removing the CMOS battery. Problems persisted. Realised my noobish ways and removed and reapplied Arctic 5 thermal paste.

2. Skip forward a couple of weeks, I have just installed a Enermax ETS-T40 CPU cooler with Arctic 5 paste. I have managed to game BF3 on full settings for about 20 minutes, system was at max 44 degrees C. Then all of a sudden the system crashed. I used WhoCrashed to see the problem.

3. Here are the results. See below for my system specs!

On Mon 5/7/2012 1:43:25 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\050612-26067-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8007D36028, 0xF2000000, 0x20008F)
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 problem. This problem might be caused by a 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 which cannot be identified at this time.


On Mon 5/7/2012 1:43:25 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal!HalBugCheckSystem+0x1E3)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8007D36028, 0xF2000000, 0x20008F)
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 problem. This problem might be caused by a 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 which cannot be identified at this time.


On Sun 5/6/2012 9:31:37 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\050612-23961-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8007D68028, 0xF2000000, 0x20008F)
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 problem. This problem might be caused by a 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 which cannot be identified at this time.


On Sun 5/6/2012 6:49:51 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\050612-33321-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x12A3B)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFFA8007DEC028, 0xF2000000, 0x20008F)
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 problem. This problem might be caused by a 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 which cannot be identified at this time.



My system-

Mobo: Gigabyte P55-UD3 Rev 1.0.

RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB@1666mhz

CPU: Intel i7 860@2.8ghz.

HDD: Western Digital Caviar black 500gb.

GPU: HD 6970

PSU: Antec TP-650W

My real question is, what is causing the problem? Is my motherboard fried?