BSOD, bad_pool_caller

[banditaras76 0]

I've read the previous posts about this bsod, but my case is different. This bsod pops only when i try to copy files from one hard drive to another. My boot hard disk is a 15gb western digital BA (ata66), NTFS formatted, and the other drive is ata33, seagate, and fat32 formatted. If i remove the second hard drive then the bsod never appears. My system configuration follows

 

MB: QDI Kinetiz 7T

CPU: Duron 700MHZ

RAM:256 MB

SB live sound card

Matrox G400 graphics card(latest drivers installed)

Primary hard drive wd 15,2BA (first ide channel, single drive)

 

Secondary hard drive seagate (secondary ide channel, master drive)

 

Thanks for any help

 

George Chatizeorgiou

[Brian Frank 0]

Try formatting the FAT32 drive to NTFS and see if that works. I dont have a clue why that wouldnt work, because Win2k has support to read and write FAT32. Plus you can install Win2k on FAT32 disks.

If that doesnt work, see if the IDE cable is good and plugged in at both ends.

Youve got a motherboard that Im not familiar with.

Also, what OS are you using? Win2k or NT?

[banditaras76 0]

I'm using win2k. I can't format the drive to ntfs, because i use it on various systems. All other ide operations, don't fail so it's propably not the cable. The strange thing is that, a week ago, i had to replace the motherboard , with a new one excactly the same. Before that everything worked just fine. I'll try to reinstall win2k.

[Brian Frank 0]

Well then, if its happened since you got the new board, and its the EXACT same one, the board is bad. You shouldnt have to reinstall Win2k if its just the same board.

You can try to reinstall, but you might be right back where you started.

The only thing I can come up with for the problem of the board is if they're diffferent revisions of the board, but Im stretching it. Im quite perplexed.

[banditaras76 0]

I've moved the second hard disk, to the first ide channel, as slave and everything works just fine. Thanks anyway

[evil Homer 0]

I'm also getting the same error, but whilst transferring files from CD-R to hard drive.

 

I've checked the Event Viewer and the CDUDF service is failing to start, which I believe is Windows 2000's method of reading cd-r discs.

 

Normal cd reading operation seems to be fine, and this is on a brand new install.

 

System is:

 

Athlon T-Bird 1.2Ghz.

Abit KT7 Raid

640Mb RAM (PC133)

Geforce 2 GTS

Panasonic 10X DVD-Rom (Master)

HP 8100 CD-RW (Slave)

System disk is on IDE 1

Secondardy Hard drive on RAID IDE 3

 

Help would be nice, before I bite the bullet and reinstall again

 

Homer

[evil Homer 0]

Anyone?

[Rulle 0]

Hi, I also got BSODs if I had the UDMA enabled with my DVD-ROM (Toshiba M1212). Switching the DVD to PIO mode solved the problem. I am running Duron 700 Mhz and KT7A in w2k. The transfer speeds suck but at least it won't crash.

 

I think its via 4-in-1 driver related. Funny thing though that I happen to have Matrox g400 and SB live too.

[evil Homer 0]

Thats the solution I came up with in the end too, which quite blantently sucks.

 

Hmmmmm....

 

Will have to investigate more!

 

Homer

[evil Homer 0]

FIXED IT!!!

 

Moved dvd-rom to IDE 1....

 

Phew!

 

Homer

[Brian Frank 0]

Well, the BSOD that I got was related to the UDFREADR.SYS. All I had to do was update it.

Also, check to see if you have the latest bios. That can fix a lot of problems. I believe I switched IDE drives, and DVD drives before this.