Blue Screen of Death

Hi all

Not sure if this is the correct forum but here goes.

For some reason a machine that has been running perfectly has started getting BSoDs, initially Bad_Pool_Header, then Bad_Pool_Caller, then it just said that a driver was causing it. I was advised to remove any new hardware (none) or to remove the faulty driver (which one is it?).

I logged into safe mode and uninstalled all devices but still no joy, so I went into bios and disabled bios cacheing and all on board devices. Now I am still getting a driver error - "a device driver attempting to corrupt the system has been caught" the error code is 0xc4 (0x00000037, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x867b9e78).

Any suggestions as to how I can get the machine back up and running?

 

well, you could start with updating all your drivers if there are any available.

 

I have re-installed every driver for the hardware that is installed but am still getting the same problem when I try to boot into anything other than safe mode.

 

resinstalling the drivers: Please elaborate. Reinstalling can mean the installation of drivers that came on the cd which are probably first revision or installing NEW drivers.

 

All were previously downloaded from the web, and were working fine from when I installed them initially, a year or so ago, until this happened a couple of days ago.

Where I think the problem may be is that machine is what I use as a testbed so it has had lots of different printers, hard drives, optical drives, PCI cards, USB wireless adaptors and monitors on it at some point and I would imagine that some of those drivers are still installed, even though not required anymore.

 

for one, if you are using drivers that are a year old they are out of date so you need to download new ones and install those

you might also want to try CCleaner as it will delete useless registry keys and other stuff from your computer that might be causing the conflicts you are seeing