Sporadic BAD POOL HEADER BSOD


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #1

    Sporadic BAD POOL HEADER BSOD


    Our 2 year old Dell has been throwing Blue Screens for about 2 months now with no (seemingly) consistent rhyme or reason. One day it happens while browsing in IE or Firefox, other days you walk in and see the computer has rebooted on it's own.

    I've found and turned off the automatic reboot, so hopefully will have more screen details soon. But in the meantime, I have run the SF Tools. Hoping for some guidance, thanks in advance!
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  2. Posts : 1,851
    Windows 7 pro
       #2
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Tried the suggestions, as well as going out to the Dell site to get list of any other vendor recommended updates. Dell even had a BIOS update out there. Unfortunately, when I applied this I lost internet for a few days before I was able to use my wife's iPad to find a fix.

    So, things had been running ok for a bit - I even thought the BSODs had stopped as the wife hadn't complained.

    Well now they're back again - I've BSODed 3 times just trying to get this file created. Any other recommendations? Do I have bad memory or GPU? (By the way, the previous link talked about NVIDIA, but we've got ATI.)
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  4. Posts : 15,026
    Windows 10 Home 64Bit
       #4

    bckd.sys - Try the following:

    You have a bckd.sys which is K9 parental web filter. Could you uninstall this?
    The web filter is taking from K9 Web Protection - Free Internet Filter and Parental Control Software | Free Internet Filtering and Parental Controls Software, does this look familiar?

    After the uninstallation, go to the path (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\bckd.sys) where the driver was supposed to be, and make sure it's gone.

    Best Regards,
    FredeGail
    Code:
    Start Menu\Programs\McAfee    Public:Start Menu\Programs\McAfee    Public
    Please uninstall McAfee. Its a known cause to BSoDs.
    Download and install MSE, run a full scan after updates are done.
    Microsoft Security Essentials - Free Antivirus for Windows

    Then run the system file checker, run more than times if it finds files to repair.
    SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

    For now, do this and report back. If you still get BSoDs, we'll do more troubleshooting.
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