Random BSODs, SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION

Brief history of my problems: Apparently random crashes, but not necessarily BSODs, have been going for over a year. I changed some settings a couple of months ago so I can read the message and it puts things in the minidump. Most commonly the crashes occur when compiling something in visual studio, but crashes also occur randomly when just using the desktop.

Yesterday I got a BSOD 0x00000101 "Clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor", which I tried to fix through every troubleshooting post I could find (memtest, prime95, driver verifier, etc) with no errors. Today I decided to update my BIOS to see if this would fix the problems. I used Gigabyte's @BIOS internet updater, and presumably just as it was about to start actually doing the update (a couple of progress bars had already completed), my computer bluescreened with the error in the title.

After that, I used the debug tool linked here. Hope someone can help!

(yes, my computer's name is "AWESOME")

Speccy: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/W...ltrkiDzr1JcxJe

Uninstall Gigabyte Easy Saver.

Code:

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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck C1, {fffff98014a78ff0, fffff98014a78ffc, a5000c, 24}

*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for gdrv.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for gdrv.sys
Probably caused by : gdrv.sys ( gdrv+30c7 )

Followup: MachineOwner
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0: kd> !analyze -v
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SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION (c1)
Special pool has detected memory corruption.  Typically the current thread's
stack backtrace will reveal the guilty party.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffff98014a78ff0, address trying to free
Arg2: fffff98014a78ffc, address where bits are corrupted
Arg3: 0000000000a5000c, (reserved)
Arg4: 0000000000000024, caller is freeing an address where bytes after the end of the allocation have been overwritten

Debugging Details:
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BUGCHECK_STR:  0xC1_24

SPECIAL_POOL_CORRUPTION_TYPE:  24

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT:  1

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VERIFIER_ENABLED_VISTA_MINIDUMP

PROCESS_NAME:  gwflash.exe

CURRENT_IRQL:  1

ANALYSIS_VERSION: 6.3.9600.16384 (debuggers(dbg).130821-1623) amd64fre

IRP_ADDRESS: fffff9802eb8ef3b

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER:  from fffff800033ddaa4 to fffff800032d5bc0

STACK_TEXT:  
fffff880`0c87c4d8 fffff800`033ddaa4 : 00000000`000000c1 fffff980`14a78ff0 fffff980`14a78ffc 00000000`00a5000c : nt!KeBugCheckEx
fffff880`0c87c4e0 fffff800`0340893b : fffff800`03260000 00000000`20206f49 00000000`00051957 fffffa80`0ac59090 : nt!MmFreeSpecialPool+0x374
fffff880`0c87c620 fffff800`032ea53e : 00000000`00000000 fffff980`2eb8efb0 fffff980`0128ed30 fffffa80`0f08e210 : nt!ExDeferredFreePool+0xf33
fffff880`0c87c6d0 fffff800`032d98fa : fffff980`2eb8efb3 00000000`00000001 00000000`00000001 fffff800`03398743 : nt!IopCompleteRequest+0x5ce
fffff880`0c87c7a0 fffff800`037782af : fffff980`2eb8eee0 fffffa80`0d709e00 fffff980`2eb8ef00 00000000`00000000 : nt!IopfCompleteRequest+0x66a
fffff880`0c87c890 fffff880`0a7360c7 : fffff880`0a736a50 00000000`00000008 00000000`00000000 fffff980`2eb8efb0 : nt!IovCompleteRequest+0x19f
fffff880`0c87c960 fffff880`0a736a50 : 00000000`00000008 00000000`00000000 fffff980`2eb8efb0 00000000`00000001 : gdrv+0x30c7
fffff880`0c87c968 00000000`00000008 : 00000000`00000000 fffff980`2eb8efb0 00000000`00000001 00000000`00000000 : gdrv+0x3a50
fffff880`0c87c970 00000000`00000000 : fffff980`2eb8efb0 00000000`00000001 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000001 : 0x8


STACK_COMMAND:  kb

FOLLOWUP_IP: 
gdrv+30c7
fffff880`0a7360c7 ??              ???

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX:  6

SYMBOL_NAME:  gdrv+30c7

FOLLOWUP_NAME:  MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: gdrv

IMAGE_NAME:  gdrv.sys

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  49b9d175

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0xC1_24_VRF_gdrv+30c7

BUCKET_ID:  X64_0xC1_24_VRF_gdrv+30c7

ANALYSIS_SOURCE:  KM

FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING:  km:x64_0xc1_24_vrf_gdrv+30c7

FAILURE_ID_HASH:  {2e1f5e73-f97b-fa1e-a7ba-a75c36b416b7}

Followup: MachineOwner
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0: kd> !irp fffff9802eb8ef3b 1
fffff9802eb8ef3b: Could not read Irp
0: kd> lmvm gdrv
start             end                 module name
fffff880`0a733000 fffff880`0a73c000   gdrv     T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: gdrv.sys
    Image path: \??\C:\Windows\gdrv.sys
    Image name: gdrv.sys
    Timestamp:        Fri Mar 13 08:52:29 2009 (49B9D175)
    CheckSum:         000105CE
    ImageSize:        00009000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

pighead10 said:

I don't appear to have that program installed?

From your system:

gdrv gdrv \??\c:\windows\gdrv.sys Kernel Driver Yes Manual Running OK Normal No Yes

IMHO, you should do a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 .... following all the steps applicable for you.

And you should not install any of the Gigabyte utilities at all. They all are bad things.