BSOD Bad Pool Error / Page Fault in non-paged area

matts6887 · 04 Jan 2014

If a restore doesn't help the issues then I'm guessing at this point you may have to do a reinstall of windows unless some of the others more experienced with this type of bsod has any better ideas than I do

YoYo155 · 04 Jan 2014

Hey deanlove,
I see you have marked the thread as solved can you please update as to what fixed it?

deanlove · 04 Jan 2014

Ahh, sorry, didn't realise typing a reply and clicking Mark Solved wouldn't actually send the reply! Weirdly removing and re-installing the Creative sound driver fixed it. Just removing it didn't work, oddly enough, so I re-installed it to revert the change and suddenly it was booting again.

Odd as I hadn't made any changes to that driver or anything sound-related recently.

Cheers for all the help.

YoYo155 · 10 Jan 2014

deanlove said:

Ahh, sorry, didn't realise typing a reply and clicking Mark Solved wouldn't actually send the reply! Weirdly removing and re-installing the Creative sound driver fixed it. Just removing it didn't work, oddly enough, so I re-installed it to revert the change and suddenly it was booting again.

Odd as I hadn't made any changes to that driver or anything sound-related recently.

Cheers for all the help.

Thanks for the confirmation :).
Just out of curiosity though, what made you go for that particular driver?

deanlove · 10 Jan 2014

Well the sound drivers were the other obvious driver that would be loaded in a clean boot but not in safe mode.

And the Creative X-Fi drivers for Vista onwards don't exactly have a reputation for stability... I seem to remember it took a fair amount of fiddling to get them working right after the initial build, though much like everything else, they'd been stable for a good few years.

YoYo155 · 10 Jan 2014