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    Hey, I'm getting one of those mysterious blue screen errors. Hurrah!

    System spec is in my profile. I was having problems reading a DVD, it was reporting the data in various zip and rar archives as corrupted. I tracked the problem down to AnyDVD, uninstalled that and it seemed to work ok. Except now when I'm trying to copy data to my hard disk - an Oblivion mod to the Oblivion directory - it blue screens and tells me 'bad_pool_caller'. I tried copying the complete archive to my hard disk first then extracting it from there, but the error still occurred. Everything else seems to work okay, this is a new system and the first time I had Windows installed (had to reinstall yesterday) I never encountered this error at all. I assume AnyDVD has corrupted something, somewhere. Am I going to have to install Windows again?

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    What OS ? What's the exact error message ? ....*** STOP: 0x000000C2 (0xParameter_1, 0xParameter_2, 0xParameter_3, 0xParameter_4) BAD_POOL_CALLER ?? Bring it on again and write it all down, might shed some more light.

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    Dead RAM.

    1 or 2 of your sticks may be dead or dying.

    Run memtest, test 5 with them all in, then do them one at a time. You can use the windows memtest, but for the individual tests, I would use the UBCD and memtest v1.70 and test 5 for at least an hour each.
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    I'll tell you what the problem is - it's these damn SATA DVD drives. They're ****e. Been giving me hassle from day one. AnyDVD had some kind of conflict and it made them go all crazy. I reinstalled Windows and it's been perfect, ran memtest for a while and got 0 errors.

    Back to IDE for me.

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    Did you use your SATA controller in AHCI mode?..
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    Nope, IDE.

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    Small world!

    I have had that "bad pool caller" blue screen twice now. Although, on a PC that has been running almost constantly for 8 months and I'm constantly doing stuff on it (films, games, surfing the net, emails, bits of work etc...), then 2 blue screens is no big deal.

    But yes, I have had that exact error and I remembered it because I had never seen or heard of it it before. I remembered it so that when I rebooted, I could search about it in google, but I never found anything conclusive.

    P.S. I don't have a SATA DVD drive by the way. Its ide. Also, I doubt its dying ram, although it could be, but I just doubt it. What made you guys think it was RAM by the way? I think in my case, I would guess that its one of either two things.

    1) Either my stupid motherboard just has chosen some strange settings for the RAM which make it hicup once every blue moon.
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    2) I enabled AHCI mode for my hard disks recently, which seemed to make them a bit faster. I can't remember if I did that before or after I first got this blue screen. But if it was before, then I would bet its that which caused it.

    I haven't spent much time researching this though, because like I said, its only crashed twice, and thats not a big deal for me. It would have to crash a few more times, or more than once a day or something, for me to really worry. If it did that, I would find the cause.

    One last note, I cant remember what I was doing the first time, but the second time I got the blue screen, I was doing absolutely nothing at all. Nothing running, nothing downloading, no MP3s playing, no movies playing, no web page being displayed... absolutely nothing. I was just staring at my desktop deciding what to do.

    OH also, the aweful Nvidia drivers could be to blame.
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    That's the trouble with these BSODs, tracking down the source of the problem is difficult and what works on one system doesn't necessarily have an effect on another. In my case I'm fairly certain the SATA drives are to blame. Ever since I got them they have behaved strangely (spinning but not reading data, one drive refuses to read data the other won't play movies, can only boot from a particular drive) and uninstalling AnyDVD had some kind of effect, even if it didn't fix the problem.

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    Do I take it 'bad_pool_caller' was the only error message you got ? Or was it part of a larger error message ?

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    It was the usual junk you get from a BSOD. I didn't bother to make a note of any of it apart from that.

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    If you can replicate the BSOD it might be worth getting the message down in it's entirety just for the fact that it will give you added information and may give pointers and clues. You've probably already identified the problem you're just looking for more information that may or may not tally with what you think, that's all.

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    I can't, don't have the problem anymore. Reinstalling Windows made it go away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by badger View Post
    I can't, don't have the problem anymore. Reinstalling Windows made it go away.
    I knew that there was something I missed when I stopped using Windows!
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    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    I knew that there was something I missed when I stopped using Windows!
    Aside from all the games?

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    Quote Originally Posted by badger View Post
    Aside from all the games?
    Nah - freecell is just as good under Linux!
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