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Bad_Pool_Caller
Right, I just started getting this error yesterday. I've had Win7 Ultimate for well over a year on my machine, no issues with it thus far, save for a few rendering issues after logging back into a locked computer, and for some reason, ATI drivers like to just die occasionally. Win7 seems to hate my graphics card >.<.
Aside from that, there have been no issues with anything, but yesterday, blue screens abound. No .sys errors from what I could tell, all drivers seem to be working optimally. I have not installed anything but games lately, which were on the computer previously anyways. These errors are suddenly occurring in EVERYTHING, from my computer sitting idle while locked to playing a game, and everything in between. I can just be sitting on my desktop, when Explorer.exe will crash, then the whole system will go to crap on me. I can move the mouse around in this period of freezings, but no input will be accepted. I have suspicions that it may be an IRQ based error, because I unplugged my USB keyboard once when the freezes started happening yesterday, and they stopped. About 10 minutes after I had the keyboard in again, the freezes started coming back. I unplugged the keyboard this time as well, but the BSOD still came up. The HEX values were:
0x000000c2 (BAD_POOL_CALLER) 0x00001097 0x08a10017 0x87586b00
This was the only screen I ever saw. There may have been different codes, but I have not caught them yet.
If there is any help or advice that can be given any which way, I am all ears. I've never encountered this before, and there seem to be few fixes other than a complete reinstall, which I would like to avoid if at all possible, due to me losing my retail disc. I disabled system restore/Volume Shadow Copy because I took my desktop off of the internet, and figured I wouldn't need it if all I was using it for was programming and movies/games. So sadly I kind of screwed myself there as well.
My dump file (from x86 OS): https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...1&d=1287663445
Thanks in advance,
Larkaros