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Hey,

I've gotten a few crashes recently - HELP!!

BLue screen reads: BAD POOL ERROR
Recommend: Biasable BIOS memory options such as caching & shading.

SPEC:
AMD 3000+
1 gig DDR
DFI - Infinity NFII Ultra
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platnium Pro
Chaintech GeForce 6800 GT 256 (new purchase!)
XP Home - SP2

Error Sig:
BCCode : 19 BCP1 : 00000020 BCP2 : 860B8D80 BCP3 : 860B8DA8
BCP4 : 0A050002 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1

Error Report:
C:\DOCUME~1\CONORM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERae43.dir00\Mini092704-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\CONORM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERae43.dir00\sysdata.xml

Online Crash Analysis:
Error Caused by a Device Driver

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HELP!!!

[Saga Lout]

Have you taken up the suggestion regarding amendments to BIOS menus? DId you install something along the lines Microsoft is suggesting. You have a fairly full description of what may be wrong here - a lot more than many get with a bluescreen event, and yet you've come to the forum for help. You're very welcome of course but how far down the checklist have you got?

[sticker]

Originally Posted by Saga Lout

Have you taken up the suggestion regarding amendments to BIOS menus? DId you install something along the lines Microsoft is suggesting. You have a fairly full description of what may be wrong here - a lot more than many get with a bluescreen event, and yet you've come to the forum for help. You're very welcome of course but how far down the checklist have you got?

Cheers for the reply -

I have recently installed a GeForce 6800 GT, I've a beta set of nVidia drivers installed - could they be the cause of this? ie - Is it a software or harware related problem?

I had a look in my BIOS, and couldn't find the settings outlined by Microsoft, Do you know where I look?

Thanks in advnace...

Conor

[Saga Lout]

My best suggestion is to roll back those NVidia drivers to the previous, tested versions. I see you have SP2 - which came first, the drivers or the Service Pack? If rolling back the drivers doesn't make a diference, maybe uninstalling SP2 would. This isn't something I'd normally advocate but as an experiment I think it would be worthwhile but I stress - only after rolling back the drivers.

I'm sure you know this but you need Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>Display Adapters>Driver and Rollback Driver.

[sticker]

Originally Posted by Saga Lout

My best suggestion is to roll back those NVidia drivers to the previous, tested versions. I see you have SP2 - which came first, the drivers or the Service Pack? If rolling back the drivers doesn't make a diference, maybe uninstalling SP2 would. This isn't something I'd normally advocate but as an experiment I think it would be worthwhile but I stress - only after rolling back the drivers.

I'm sure you know this but you need Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>Display Adapters>Driver and Rollback Driver.

I'll try the roll back - SP2 was first - then the display drivers...
The crash only happens during web browsing - It just never happens when I'm pushing the display drivers with a game...

[sticker]

I rolled back the display drivers to the previous revision - And restarted. Obviously uninstalling the old ones...

I was playing Far Cry and got another blue screen -
PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA.

After reboot: Error signiture reads:
BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : FFFFFFFE BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 8054AF32
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1

Error Report Details:
C:\DOCUME~1\CONORM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERbee3.dir00\Mini092804-03.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\CONORM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERbee3.dir00\sysdata.xml

I'm not overclocking the new GeForce, but I'm getting some graphical errors and flickers when playing (I assumed it was the beta drivers - obviously not)

I wonder could it be the hardware?!
No 2D problems - and most games are running fine...

Do you know where in the BIOS I can change the settings XP told me to in my 1st post - I can't find them!!

XP & Antivirus are up to date by the way...

Cheers again for any help - It's appreciated!

[sticker]

ANOTHER BLUE SCREEN :

This time:
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT


Error signiture:
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 8057E848 BCP3 : F1E2B68C
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1



Error Report:
C:\DOCUME~1\CONORM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc37c.dir00\Mini092904-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\CONORM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc37c.dir00\sysdata.xml

HELP!!!

[Saga Lout]

This is pointing towards a RAM problem and given that you've 1Mb we can discount a lack and look towards a mismatch. I'm assuming here that you have two 512 sticks. Can you download WINDIAG from Microsoft's site, pop it on a floppy disc and boot up with that. It will run six tests if I recall and tell you if there's a problem with one stick or the other or a mismatch between the two.

[sticker]

Originally Posted by Saga Lout

This is pointing towards a RAM problem and given that you've 1Mb we can discount a lack and look towards a mismatch. I'm assuming here that you have two 512 sticks. Can you download WINDIAG from Microsoft's site, pop it on a floppy disc and boot up with that. It will run six tests if I recall and tell you if there's a problem with one stick or the other or a mismatch between the two.

I ran WINDIAG from floppy and ran the 6 tests - no errors reported!

Do you think it's a software or hardware problem I'm experiencing?

[sticker]

Just ran a voltage check - Everything seems in the green:

[sticker]

This is the blue screen I'm getting repeatidly... I've done all I was asked.

HELP!!

PS - WOuld applications like the following cause this problem; motherboard monitor / Steganos security suite 7 / nForce Tray ect?! or is it just software drivers for hardware?!

[sticker]

Another blue screen... Comeon Guys help!!!
Could my BIOS need updating? Do I need to uninstall the existing drivers first?!?!

[bobol]

are you on xp or w2k?
ps.this is the first time i'm entering the domain of 'bad pools'-but i'm curious
i googled your 1st stop error...thats a start;
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291810
and another
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...kmsgs/1118.asp
like your initial post, they point to driver//hardware technicalities.
this one too;
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

and then there's this snippet from some1 at a linked site who claimed how they got that error fixed;

"....I had the same problem a few day's ago ... i phoned up my computer supplier and they said i should contact Telewest ( my internet supplier ) They told me to buy a Ethernet Cable instead of a USB cable because they are the things that usually cause the problems .... so they registered me to use the network card Real Tek ... I went down to my local store and brought a Ethernet Cable ... they cost about £8 ... and now my internet is working perfectly and no more bad pool caller ... Hope this works out for you
By the way make sure you phone your internet supplier just to make sure that you get registered for the ethernet card."

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Originally Posted by bobol

are you on xp or w2k?
ps.this is the first time i'm entering the domain of 'bad pools'-but i'm curious
i googled your 1st stop error...thats a start;
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291810
and another
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...kmsgs/1118.asp
like your initial post, they point to driver//hardware technicalities.
this one too;
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

and then there's this snippet from some1 at a linked site who claimed how they got that error fixed;

"....I had the same problem a few day's ago ... i phoned up my computer supplier and they said i should contact Telewest ( my internet supplier ) They told me to buy a Ethernet Cable instead of a USB cable because they are the things that usually cause the problems .... so they registered me to use the network card Real Tek ... I went down to my local store and brought a Ethernet Cable ... they cost about £8 ... and now my internet is working perfectly and no more bad pool caller ... Hope this works out for you
By the way make sure you phone your internet supplier just to make sure that you get registered for the ethernet card."

Cheers! I'll start into those!