Bad Pool Caller Blue Screen
Good day people!
I have this problem with my Asus computer that has XP SP3 and Ubuntu 8.04.1 on dual boot. Ubuntu is fine, but whenever somebody logs in to Windows, after a few minutes these things happen:
1. It says that it has recovered from a serious error. I look at the details, and I see a .dmp file and a .sys file.
2. It then displays a blue screen (BSOD, so to speak). The only thing that I can read from the screen is BAD_POOL_CALLER.
3. Before I get a glimpse of what else is written on the screen, it reboots.
This happens every single time someone logs in, and it is always during the first few minutes.
I tried booting XP in safe mode, but I wasn't able to get much information, apart from the following:
1. Safe mode runs smoothly.
2. In event logger, at the times before the computer displayed the blue screen, it had the following code: 000000c2, 00000007, 00000cd4, 04030401, e3c3b2a0. Similar threads said that I should take this down, so I did, but no other threads had exactly the same code.
I thought about what could possibly cause this. The last time it worked properly, I did the following:
1. I installed a USB to Serial converter cable driver. It came with a CD, and it wasn't plug and play. It didn't come with an instruction manual, so I installed every driver in the disk that was in the USBtoRS232 folder. From what I read from other threads, conflicting drivers can cause bad pool callers.
2. I also used WiFi for the first time, and the computer had two programs that manage it: Atheros and the default Windows utility. I turned both on.
3. I downloaded new headers for Ubuntu.
4. I installed two new programs: a Zilog microcontroller utility and CAPE_OPEN.
Now, I don't know much about computer troubleshooting. I don't know how I could tackle this. Also, my dad is gonna kill me if he sees Windows fail on him once he gets to use it.
Help!
Thanks in advance!
Re: Bad Pool Caller Blue Screen
I just have few questions. Can anyone please tell me what does "same deal" means, as stated by bozobuddy? Also does anyone know what is the Windows version the OP is using and what he did to possible cause this problem?