BSOD: SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION (c1) - Windows 7 Professional

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In the past week I have experienced on my Windows 7 Professional system three BSODs. I have done Google searches, and I am not sure what the casuse(s) is/are. Some sites point to a device driver. I am running verifier on seven non-MS drivers. I have loaded the three minidumps to SkyDrive. I am not sure for what to look in the minidumps (or the full dumps, which I also have)) to locate the failing driver. Note that I spent 25+ years as an IBM mainframe systems programmer, and I looked at many system dumps during those 25+ years. I do not know enough about the internals of Windows 7 to be able to look at the dumps and determine what happened.

Also, I have experienced many seemingly random BSODs since I installed a new motherboard on May 25; I am currently concentrating on the last three BSODs, which were all (c1) symptoms. As far as I know, all of my device drivers are up-to-date; there are web sites that offer me newer drivers, but those are not manufacturers' web sites, so I do not download drivers from them. I ran a memory test for 8 hours on Sunday; no problems were found.

My last three BSODs were (c1), and there were no dumps of that type in the previous 90 BSODs, so this problem is new. The first of the three was 12/11 at 09:25, and the previous day I had installed 10 hotfixes on patch Tuesday.

Thanks.

--Barry S. Finkel

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Anonymous

2014-01-15T16:41:31+00:00

My computer is dual-boot - Windows 7 Pro and XP. I boot into XP only to patch it or when Win 7 has boot problems. Both OSes boot from a sATA drive. I have two IDE drives that I believe are working fine. These two IDE disks are connected via an IDE card, as the IDE port on the motherboard has two DVD drives. One of my brothers believes (without evidence) that it is my IDE card that is causing my problems; I do not believe him. This card (VIA 6421) does not have its own drivers; it uses the native drivers in Windows 7. The card supports RAID, but I am not using RAID. I need to decide into what sized disks to partition the new SATA drive; then I will copy the data from the disk partitions on the two IDE drives onto the new SATA drive.

--Barry Finkel

--Barry Finkel
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2014-02-24T18:00:00+00:00

I have not yet completed moving the data from my two IDE disk drives to the new SATA drive. I ran into some problems and some time constraints.   My two boot volumes (Win 7 and XP) are on the existing, older SATA.

Within the past 30 hours, I have experienced four BSOD outages:

     02/23/2013 04:40 BSOD: (126) BAD_POOL_CALLER (c2)

     02/23/2014 17:43 BSOD: (127) KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (8e)

     02/23/2014 23:28 BSOD: (128) APC_INDEX_MISMATCH (1)

     02/24/2014 09:07 BSOD: (129) DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL (c5)

and I really would like to discover what are the causes of these outages. I have a hard time believing that they are all have the same cause. I just did a quick calculation, and in 240+ days since I installed my new motherboard, I have logged 129 BSOD outages. For some, I have found the cause and installed updated software. But that is still about one BSOD every other day. I assume that other Windows 7 customers do not have this frequency of BSOD errors.

About a week ago, the "Action Center" gave me a pop-up window asking permission to send the last seven minidumps to Micrtosoft. I clicked YES, and the response was "server not available, try later". I would like to send the minidumps officially to MS, but I have no idea how to do that.

--Barry Finkel
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