Blue screen

[chris2112617]

Hey guys have a question every once in a while i loose sound and i get a blue screenthat says (BAD_POOL_CALLER) is this a easy fix. I am using windows xp SP2.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Hey guys have a question every once in a while i loose sound and i get a blue screenthat says (BAD_POOL_CALLER) is this a easy fix. I am using windows xp SP2.

Not enough information to tell for sure, but make sure you upgrade your drivers to the latest drivers from the manufacturer. We need more information such as:

1. Sound card make
2. Motherboard make/chipset

 

[chris2112617]

I add 2GB OF RAM

# Soyo SY-P4X400 Dragon Lite Motherboard

# General Features:
# VIA P4X400 chipset
# 533/400 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
# ATX form factor
# Supports Intel Hyper-Threading technology
# Supports up to 3 GB DDR RAM (DDR 266/333/400)
# Two (2) dual-channel UDMA/133 IDE controllers
# One (1) dual-channel floppy controller
# CMI 8738 integrated 4-channel audio
# Integrated Ethernet controller

# Expansion Slots:
# One (1) 8x/4x AGP slot
# Five (5) PCI slots
# Three (3) 184-pin DIMM slots

# I/O Ports:
# Two (2) PS/2 ports
# Two (2) 9-pin standard serial ports
# One (1) 25-pin standard parallel port
# One (1) 15-pin standard game/MIDI port
# Six (6) USB 2.0 ports (two on back, four via header)
# One (1) RJ-45 standard Ethernet jack
# Line-in, microphone and line-out jack

# BIOS Features:
# Award PCI BIOS
# ACPI
# Multiple-boot support
# 2 MB flash ROM
# Suspend to RAM
# Suspend to disk
# Wake On Lan (WOL)

# Health Monitoring Features:
# On-board voltage monitors
# CPU fan speed monitor
# CPU temperature monitor

# Advanced Management Features:
# Software power off control
# Power-on by keyboard
# Power-on by alarm
# Modem ring on

# Supported Processors:
# Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 processors up to 3.06 GHz

 

[PieIsAwesome]

May be a problem with hardware or drivers. Any more information given by the blue screen? You can run memtest to quickly rule that out.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

As PieIsAwesome said, run memtest. If the blue screens started right after you added the RAM, memtest is probably going to show that you have bad RAM.

 

[chris2112617]

it just started, it seems like evertime i play bejeweled on facebook i loose sound and then i get the blue screen, that says bad_pool_caller or bad_pool_header. i'll try to send more info on the blue screen.