BAD_POOL_CALLER

Nemlet17

So went to start my computer last night and when I get at the welcome screen it goes to a blue screen and gives me BAD_POOL_CALLER. I don't think it's the RAM, because I can access the second xp professional when asked to boot and it boots fine. I think it has something to do with my registry? I've looked online and can't really pinpoint a solution, even from microsoft.com. Anyone else have this problem and how they fixed it? Worst comes to worst I will have to transfer all 1.5 terabytes off and reformat....

I'm also worried because I'm suppose to start work on something in two weeks and of course with the good news there has to be something bad to even it out.

Thanks,
Zack Dembinski

Psyk0

Sorry can't be much help, however if you decide to re install...

Before you do, partition your boot hard drive to have like 80 gigs for windows, that way when the shit hits the fan, you'll only have to move a few gb off the boot partition instead of 1.5 TB.

Once you have installed windows and a bunch of mandatory software, do a backup of your partition with something like norton ghost. XP took a shit on me last week and i was back up in 5 minutes with a restore of the disk partition (not the microsoft restore point crap!).

Ben Apuna

Seems to be lots of info available...

See this and this.

aesir

From what little I know, that error could be anything. There are various computer based help forums where you can post detailed errors and get detailed answers though. Google around

Neavah

I've had this problem before. I never found out what caused it. I assumed it was from a registry clean program fucking around with registries.
I couldn't boot in safe mode, so I repair installed to operating system. (I didn't back up, and thankfully it worked out that i didn't need to). problem solved.

so before you reformat, try repairing the os and see if that works.

Good luck!


Edit:
I believe I had issues with cryptographic services after. But nothing that google and tec forums couldn't spoon feed me a solution for.

notman

yeah, I would see if you have a recent restore point, or pop in the windows disk and let it repair

Nemlet17

Hey guys,

Thank you for all the responses, I really appreciate them. I have tried several of those methods for those who posted links but they did not work.

I will try to repair the OS today but I'm leaning just towards transferring everything off my C: drive, putting it on my F: and then installing Windows 7 (still using XP currently). I'm going away for school this summer and this would be the perfect time for me to install it and put mega RAM into it (tired of XP's 3 gig bullsh*t) and upgrade the whole machine within itself.

Any reasons I shouldn't upgrade to Windows 7? Software problems with it?

Thanks,
Zack Dembinski

Ben Apuna

You really should switch to Windows 7 64bit if you have the hardware for it. A 64bit CPU and more than 4 GB of ram.

If your PC is very old though (5 years or more) you might be better off sticking with XP, because you may find some old hardware won't have any drivers available.

There shouldn't be any software problems unless you are running some old 16 bit applications from the Windows 3.1/DOS era, those won't work at all with Windows 7 64bit.

Best of luck.