Solved Laptop endless spinning / BSOD on start up - BAD_POOL_HEADER "<3"

[Jenack]

Laptop endless spinning / BSOD on start up - BAD_POOL_HEADER "<3"

Hello Sevenforum!

I am in dire need of your help! I seem to be in a pinch..!
Was working on a presentation on the laptop and had Firefox, Dropbox and Word opened when suddenly Word when "Not responding", switches to Firefox and surf for a bit when that and Dropbox turns "Not Responding" and then BSOD happened :S

Tried rebooting but got a "endless" spinning "Logging In" screen and then Windows crashed to a BAD_POOL_HEADER

I tried doing as much as you required as possible but I couldn't run a System Health Report

ASUS K53SV-SX393V
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Original Installed OS
OEM

Intel Core i5 2410M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
6GB RAM(?)
500GB HDD

Reinstalled 3 months ago I think.

Like an idiot I never burned a Recovery Disk, the laptop never came with a recovery CD, its on the drive D:\ :3 and apparently I have no system restore points either

Hope you can help me!

- Jenack

 

[ePeen]

Hi!

The latest dump file shows iaStor.sys as the culprit (Intel Storage Drivers). I'd recommend updating them here.

 

[Jenack]

Could you be a bit more specific? :3 Don't quite know what I am looking for? Is it a chipset driver, something with the harddisk driver?

 

[Jenack]

Tried running the "Run Intel® driver update utility" but it wont work in safe mode :S
Update: Safe Mode just crashed into a 0x0F4, trying to get dump as we speak :S
Update 2: For some reason I got booted into "normal mode" and Windows is working but you can deff' tell that it is slower than usual.
WinUpdate came up and wanted to install a "intel management engine" update of some sort so I'm installing that..
Update 3: That did not go to well - see photo :/

 

[Jenack]

Think I killed it... Getting error loading operating system now... :3 Random half windows boots saying it has a I/O problem, "Insert Bootable Media" and so forward :S

 

[ePeen]

Sounds like your HDD is on its way out, my friend.

 

[Jenack]

Yep its dead.. Tried reinstalling Windows but the Install program cant even detect the drive... Shame for a 4 month old laptop Might as well mark this as "solved". Thanks for trying.. In the end I just f**cked it more up