WinXP BSOD

[Doot]

Hi, I`m getting a few bsod errors with my XP box. It will come when an app is closed or sometimes while playing a game. It says bad_pool_caller. Any ideas on that on.

Have all updates installed for XP.

Thanks Doot.

[jmebonner]

New build? Computer you've had for a while, some specs, etc. I was getting same messagelast week, turned out to be a problem w/ my ram, but that's just me...

[Doot]

I built it around 6 months ago, fresh install of XP etc.

1800XP
Asus A7V333
512 DDR
60 GB Maxtor
10 GB Seagate
Promise tx100 ultra
DVD rom
CDRW
SB 4.1 Digital
TV card

Doot

[meese]

I had same error today. Pretty weird. My friends pc got some virus. So I cleaned his drive up and all that. That drive was booting with no problems. He decided he wanted a new install on a bigger drive. So I go to install W2K and get the bad_spool_caller error message. He had 396MB of ram, two 64MB and one 256MB sticks. Once I removed the two 64MB sticks and put the 256MB stick in the DIMM1 slot, everything worked fine.

[Doot]

I only have 1 stick of 512 ddr ram, bios is set to spd.

I had memorey errors with my last box that had 2 sticks of sdram (2*256) so I changed the mobo and mem in one go.

Doot

[Doot]

Right, I got another bsod this time saying that is all my hardware installed corectly etc. How am I going to solve this one?

Please any suggestions will be helpful.

Doot

[jmebonner]

Have you run memtest86 yet, just to be sure? What brand is the 512 megs of ram, and have you cleared it with asus' approved list? www.memtest86.com

[Doot]

Memtest86 came up ok, tried simmtester aswell. A new update popped up on win update, installed that and haven`t had a BSOD for a week now. So maybe it was something to with a previous update, I don`t know.

Thanks jmebonner, Doot