Re: BAD_POOL_HEADER

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You're diving into a deep and very murky pool!

I didn't locate this link earlier but it makes you wonder how worthwhile
researching the cause of the problem is. Probably simpler to move on
and try another game until the gaming software is debugged.
http://snipurl.com/lojw

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Gerry
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"TaurArian [MS-MVP]" <taurarianREMOVECAPS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Lots of info here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_hwpg.asp
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> "Heavy" <Heavy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I seem to be getting random reboots every few minutes, starting a few days
>>ago
>>
>> The message last received on the bluescreen reads
>> BAD_POOL_HEADER, with the stopcode
>> STOP: 0x00000019 (0x00000020, 0xe168b490, 0xei68b5c0, 0x2c260204)
>>
>> On former occasions i have been getting various messages, among other
>> related to
>> IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL (I hawe seen Bruce's interesting thread on
>> this,
>> but mine has got a different code. I'll come up with the other codes
>> later...)
>>
>> The Crashes started on sunday 15., while playing CIV4. The game was
>> installed a few days earlier and worked for a few days without any
>> problems
>> on my brand new DELL laptop with Windows XP Home.
>>
>> After crashing a few times, I ran a System Restore, and installed the
>> game
>> again before getting online for the first time downloading updates for
>> XP,
>> CIV4 and Norton anti virus.
>>
>> The machine continued crashing every few minutes even though I was just
>> wandering about in XP's Help and Support Area. Thus it does not seem to
>> be
>> related to the installed games. The virus explanation also seems to be
>> excluded by the fact that the crashing started before going online. Other
>> than that I've got no idea of what is causing it. Could i possibly be
>> emerging faults in the hardware or windows?
>> Anyone got a clue or similar experiences?
>>
>> I have seen the interesting information Maurice reffered to, given on
>> http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm, but I must admit to be a bit confused
>> by
>> the related MSDN-article, as I have'nt installed any new hardware nor
>> Windows2000.
>>
>> Heavy
>


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