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BSOD every 15-20 minutes - Bad Pool Header
I have a custom built PC running Windows 7 Pro x64. The all parts are 15 months old except for one 750 GB internal HDD I have some media on.
There doesn't seem to be any real pattern to the BSOD. The closest thing to a pattern I've noticed is when I've been working for a while and then open a new application it'll BSOD. So I'm doing xyz in Outlook, then I decide to open Chrome and it blue screens.
I swapped out the RAM (I have two 4 GB DIMMs) and it make the BSOD's far less frequent but they still happen. Prior to the RAM swap it was happening every 15 minutes or so. After the RAM swap it'll go 1-2 hours without a BSOD.
I haven't made any other hardware or software changes recently. I did the usual virus/malware removal techniques but nothing turned up. I can work in Safe Mode without issue.
At this point I think it might be two things:
1) The old 750 GB internal HDD. One time I opened Windows Explorer and began to browse that drive and it BSOD'd right away.
2) I have a PCIe card for wireless - TP-Link 450 Mbps N Dual Band. I have a suspicion that it might be causing the problem.