Re: Bad Pool Caller / 0x000000C2
- From: "RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:07:29 +0100
Thanks muchly to Will Denny, S. Sengupta, usasma and Rock for your
responses.
I've had a bad couple of days :-( ...the DVI input on my lovely 8 month old
19" LCD panel died yesterday and it'll only work on the 15 pin-D-sub
analogue port (swapped out graphics card to known good one to prove monitor
DVI input has indeed died), and it's HORRID on analogue ! ....my Goodman's
Active PC speakers died today but, that's my upstairs problems ...I digress
!
Downstairs - Dads system box:-
Foxconn 760GXK8MC-S_RS
Skt754 2800 Sempron / 512mb pc2700 / 80gb Seagate
MX440 AGP card / WMP54g pci Linksys wireless card
LG Combo (dvd reader/cd rewriter)
....is the one that went BSOD with:-
*** STOP: 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xC2264000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
....and I wonder if this is how it was caused ? ...
A couple of months ago when I assembled and installed this PC, I popped in a
spare 40gb WD hd as Slave to IDE0, and Ghosted C:\ onto it, and left it
disconnected in the box - to reduce noise. At that time it had a Bewan ADSL
pci modem in it. That was uninstalled and removed a couple of weeks ago
when I put a WMP54G into it. ...also relevant, if you bear with me for
few a seconds, is that initially the box was using the onboard graphics chip
and a couple of weeks later I ended up with a spare MX440 - so I popped that
into Dads PC.
All was fine until today, I needed that WD 40gb HD and took it out, and
here's where I'm sure the BSOD somehow came from. Whilst plugging the
leads back in, I connected the monitor 15pin D-sub to the onboard graphics
port instead of the AGP card ! I quickly realised what I'd done | shut down
| and connected onto the "proper" card but, nogo !
B & W DOS message at startup = "Windows could not start because the
following file is missing or corrupt:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" ...I
think that's the one, just pinched it from an MS page !
BSOD every time. This board auto detects the presence of a card in the AGP
slot, so how this produced a problem eludes me, unless of course it was just
coincidence and my hive went BANG on shutdown or something like that. I
wonder if BSOD contributors could have been motherboard features
"Superboot," "Superbios Protect," Cache bios" and "Cache Video."
I tweaked and fiddled for ages, turned off all the above in bios - couldn't
boot in any of the [F5] dos screen modes - booting from the original XP Home
SP2 OEM (unflavoured) wouldn't let me in, i.e. "r" = BSOD ...and trying to
get that later choice of a repair install by threatening to install onto the
current C:\Windows [1] =BSOD. ...cleared CMOS ...again made sure all bios
caching was off = BSOD Booted using a full retail XP Home SP2 | [r] = BSOD
No data recovery needed, (Dad only uses it occasionally on the internet), so
I deleted the MBR and reinstalled.
Anyway, what a sh***y OS start up design, and totally useless fault
tolerance and recovery !!
....totally unable to get to dos prompt using the XP Home ed. SP2 cd !
regards, Richard
"usasma" <usasma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1970D927-61DE-4AD6-8055-DC69328CC67E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Since this is a bad driver/software issue and you can't get into the
Recovery
Console - I'd suggest that you try a repair install of Windows. Here's a
link on it: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
- John
"RJK" wrote:
HeeeEEEElp, I can't get to the recovery console, stubborn so**ing thing.
I boot from XP Home ed. cd | press "r" ! type in "1" to select the
Windows
installation and again get BSOD "bad pool caller"
I've pulled out all cards, reset CMOS, turned off video and bios caching
in
bios - set failsafe defaults in bios ...tried switchong off mobo hardware
that's not used etc.
....running out of ideas, was going to try and restore the hive, as in
Kelly's corner, but can't get to repair console !
....any help muchly appreicated.
regards, Richard
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