Hi,

I'm on an old computer it's spec:

2.5ghz AMD XP
512MB RAM
40GB HDD
32MB Graphics Card
Windows XP

All of a sudden every time i boot up i get the following message:

Bad_Pool_Caller

STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xC9A37000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I can't even get into Safe Mode.

Any ideas?

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Plot thickened recently, tried a Windows Repair installation incase it was a
driver conflict and got the following:

Got a bit more information:

I finally found my Windows XP CD and started a repair install, the first
time i ran it: i got the following error:

Bad_Pool_Caller
STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xD25B7000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

So i tried the repair again and kept a close eye on it:

When it said: "25 minutes to go and above the progress bar (which was 2/3
through) it said 'Completing Installation"

Bad_Pool_Caller
STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xD5D37000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Denzil

Do you need to recover data from the drive. You can put the drive in a
second computer as a slave drive to recover important data. This should
be done first.

Background information on Stop Error message
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms796120.aspx

BAD_POOL_CALLER2: BAD_POOL_CALLER
(A kernel-mode process or driver incorrectly attempted to perform memory
operations. Typically, a faulty driver or buggy software causes this.
Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

This problem commonly go nowhere -see link
http://snurl.com/egj8v [www_google_co_uk]

Your best bet probably is a reinstall but you may have failing hardware.
What is the computer make and model?

--


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



DenzilVoorhees wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm on an old computer it's spec:
>
> 2.5ghz AMD XP
> 512MB RAM
> 40GB HDD
> 32MB Graphics Card
> Windows XP
>
> All of a sudden every time i boot up i get the following message:
>
> Bad_Pool_Caller
>
> STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xC9A37000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
>
> I can't even get into Safe Mode.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Plot thickened recently, tried a Windows Repair installation incase
> it was a driver conflict and got the following:
>
> Got a bit more information:
>
> I finally found my Windows XP CD and started a repair install, the
> first time i ran it: i got the following error:
>
> Bad_Pool_Caller
> STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xD25B7000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
>
> So i tried the repair again and kept a close eye on it:
>
> When it said: "25 minutes to go and above the progress bar (which was
> 2/3 through) it said 'Completing Installation"
>
> Bad_Pool_Caller
> STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xD5D37000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Hi Gerry,

My computer was bought from a company who set up their own using different
brands so would have to open it up to check (got this computer many years
ago).

So i can slave the HDD to recover data, that is good. Thought i'd lost it
all. If i can get windows to almost start up, that means that my HDD isn't
broken, right?

I've actually got a spare USB HDD Enclosure lying about somewhere, that
would be just as good as putting it another PC as a slave?

Thanks for your help

Denzil

"Gerry" wrote:

>
>
> Denzil
>
> Do you need to recover data from the drive. You can put the drive in a
> second computer as a slave drive to recover important data. This should
> be done first.
>
> Background information on Stop Error message
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms796120.aspx
>
> BAD_POOL_CALLER2: BAD_POOL_CALLER
> (A kernel-mode process or driver incorrectly attempted to perform memory
> operations. Typically, a faulty driver or buggy software causes this.
> Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm
>
> This problem commonly go nowhere -see link
> http://snurl.com/egj8v [www_google_co_uk]
>
> Your best bet probably is a reinstall but you may have failing hardware.
> What is the computer make and model?
>
> --
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> DenzilVoorhees wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm on an old computer it's spec:
> >
> > 2.5ghz AMD XP
> > 512MB RAM
> > 40GB HDD
> > 32MB Graphics Card
> > Windows XP
> >
> > All of a sudden every time i boot up i get the following message:
> >
> > Bad_Pool_Caller
> >
> > STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xC9A37000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
> >
> > I can't even get into Safe Mode.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Plot thickened recently, tried a Windows Repair installation incase
> > it was a driver conflict and got the following:
> >
> > Got a bit more information:
> >
> > I finally found my Windows XP CD and started a repair install, the
> > first time i ran it: i got the following error:
> >
> > Bad_Pool_Caller
> > STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xD25B7000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
> >
> > So i tried the repair again and kept a close eye on it:
> >
> > When it said: "25 minutes to go and above the progress bar (which was
> > 2/3 through) it said 'Completing Installation"
> >
> > Bad_Pool_Caller
> > STOP 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xD5D37000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
>
>
>