Windows 10: Hal.dll and ntoskrnl.exe driver related crash?

So I've owned GTA5 for a few weeks, but starting on the 10th, randomly while playing, my game froze (sound still played), and a small directx window popped up saying my display driver had crashed. I closed the box, and the game quit. Apparently the game crash was caused by nvlddmkm.sys.



Yesterday at 4:00 AM, also playing in GTA5, my game froze, and the sound stopped. My entire PC was frozen (as I couldn't alt+tab out or ctrl+alt+del) and a minute later of trying to close GTA5, my computer restarted, none of my USB (or monitor) devices worked, and had to be re-plugged back in upon reboot. I actually did not see a BSOD, but BlueScreenView did report it as one (I'll get to that later).



Specs:



N850EP6 laptop

Windows 10 Home, Version 1903

16 GB RAM

i7-8750H

GTX 1060 6GB (latest update)



I've saw on Reddit that someone owning a HyperX Cloud headset experienced this same exact issue. This was found in EventViewer:





Critical error, DriverFrameworks-UserMode (Event 10110):





<Event xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event[/URL]">



- <System>



<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode" Guid="{2e35aaeb-857f-4beb-a418-2e6c0e54d988}" />



<EventID>10110</EventID>



<Version>1</Version>



<Level>1</Level>



<Task>64</Task>



<Opcode>0</Opcode>



<Keywords>0x2000000000000000</Keywords>



<TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-07-12T08:02:14.420966500Z" />



<EventRecordID>5006</EventRecordID>



<Correlation />



<Execution ProcessID="544" ThreadID="1092" />



<Channel>System</Channel>



<Computer></Computer>



</System>



- <UserData>



- <UMDFHostProblem xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.microsoft.com/DriverFrameworks/UserMode/Event[/URL]">



<LifetimeId>{fed7142f-53ac-44eb-9fb0-abf94a008da3}</LifetimeId>



<Problem>3</Problem>



<DetectedBy>2</DetectedBy>



<ActiveOperation>3</ActiveOperation>



<ExitCode>259</ExitCode>



<Message>72448</Message>



<Status>4294967295</Status>



</UMDFHostProblem>



</UserData>



At the time of the crash, event 10111 was also generated:



Critical error, DriverFrameworks-UserMode (Event 10111):





<Event xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event[/URL]">



- <System>



<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode" Guid="{2e35aaeb-857f-4beb-a418-2e6c0e54d988}" />



<EventID>10111</EventID>



<Version>1</Version>



<Level>1</Level>



<Task>64</Task>



<Opcode>0</Opcode>



<Keywords>0x2000000000000000</Keywords>



<TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-07-12T08:01:12.564101100Z" />



<EventRecordID>4985</EventRecordID>



<Correlation />



<Execution ProcessID="544" ThreadID="1092" />



<Channel>System</Channel>



<Computer></Computer>



</System>



- <UserData>



- <UmdfDeviceOffline xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.microsoft.com/DriverFrameworks/UserMode/Event[/URL]">



<LifetimeId>{87054ad2-ca6b-4ae7-ab0c-1730ab40e2b8}</LifetimeId>



<FriendlyName>HID-compliant headset</FriendlyName>



<Location>(unknown)</Location>



<InstanceId>HID\VID_1532&PID_0504&MI_03&COL02\7&2B481298&0&0001</InstanceId>



<RestartCount>5</RestartCount>



</UmdfDeviceOffline>



</UserData>



</Event>



This is where the other person with the headset comes in. Even though I own a Razer headset, he had the same issue, an "HID-compliant headset" causing the issue. It wasn't like I was "idling" the headset and playing GTA5 without any sound, there was plenty of sound, and I'm not sure how that crashed my PC. Also, another event was generated at the same time:



Critical error, Kernel-Power (Event 41):





<Event xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event[/URL]">



- <System>



<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}" />



<EventID>41</EventID>



<Version>6</Version>



<Level>1</Level>



<Task>63</Task>



<Opcode>0</Opcode>



<Keywords>0x8000400000000002</Keywords>



<TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-07-12T08:00:03.348474400Z" />



<EventRecordID>4929</EventRecordID>



<Correlation />



<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />



<Channel>System</Channel>



<Computer></Computer>



</System>



- <EventData>



<Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>



<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>



<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data>



<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>



<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data>



<Data Name="SleepInProgress">0</Data>



<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">132073919760061089</Data>



<Data Name="BootAppStatus">0</Data>



<Data Name="Checkpoint">0</Data>



<Data Name="ConnectedStandbyInProgress">false</Data>



<Data Name="SystemSleepTransitionsToOn">0</Data>



<Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceId">0</Data>



<Data Name="BugcheckInfoFromEFI">false</Data>



<Data Name="CheckpointStatus">0</Data>



</EventData>



</Event>



It's weird because the first time it appeared to be a GFX-related crash, now this appears to be more of an either USB-interface-related or driver-related crash, though it could still be GFX. This so far has only happened in GTA5, and not other games I'm playing (though it may just be luck) or while doing non-game things.



The BlueScreenView dump is interesting because the things it blamed seem to correlate to the idea that it's possibly hardware / driver related (most likely driver). It seems to be caused by hal.dll, but also ntoskrnl.exe.



BlueScreenView Dump:



Log.txt - Google Drive



I've also included a DxDiag log, because it might have some useful stuff at the bottom:



DxDiag:



[URL unfurl="true"]https://drive.google.com/file/d/16pioFeFmtr8xBWytV_d6fZVV4xgtoXFt/view?usp=sharing[/URL]





Precautions Taken / Things I've Done Since:





Updated all drivers, including GFX card, Razer Synapse (allows lightning and customization on keyboard, mouse, and headset)
Ran memtest, came back with no problems
Ran dxdiag with no problems (except for the ones in the actual log, not the program itself)
Ran chkdsk /r on both OS and secondary drive
Checked Reliability Monitor for unreported errors
Uninstalled 2 updates for Windows 1903 (because I hadn't come across any crashes prior to installing them on 7/10, the first day my game crashed)
Disabled all bluetooth devices and all other sound devices besides my headset
Ran the Windows audio troubleshooter (with no solution)
Ran sfc /scannow, DISM (checkhealth, scanhealth, and repairhealth), and was able to repair corrupted files. However, the CBS.log only found some Windows Defender files corrupted, which is probably unrelated.


I'm afraid that this problem might eventually spread to other demanding games (though I haven't tested any others equally as demanding), and I really hope someone could help me with this.

:)

 

WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR 0x00000124 [hal.dll] [ntoskrnl.exe]


Hello zbook and thank you!

1). My system successfully created another dump file (usually it would hang): Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

2). I uninstalled all AMD related software and gpu drivers using Display Driver Uninstaller. I was able to reinstall just the AMD gpu driver by extracting the software package and obtaining the driver folder with 7zip.

3). I ran both sfc /scannow and dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth. No errors found on either scan. I could not post a picture because the command prompt window would immediately close after the test was finished.

4). Bios is up to date.

5). I reset Bios.

6). Prime95 would freeze my pc everytime between 20-30min into test. CPU temps topped out at 70c average.




7). Ran memtest86+ for 15 hours and made 11 passes with no errors.




8). HD Sentinel results were good:







9). chkdsk results:




10). Typical temps for my PC.

• A). Idle Temps:
  
  
  
• B). Temps after 20 min of gaming:
  
  
  

11). I will be running FurMark tonight and will monitor temps.

12). Updated my personal Ten Forums System Specs as well.

 

WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR 0x00000124 [hal.dll] [ntoskrnl.exe]


1). New DM Log: Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

2). sfc /scannow and dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth:




3). HD Sentinel Surface Scans:

 

HAL DLLs error on XP

' Load needed DLLs for HAL '

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1138501952

Bad ram was the problem.