Hardware Malfunction, or something else?

[Bearclaw]

Last night I went to windows update and checked everything so I could do a regular update for my system and everything was fine. I come back this morning and it is booting up and restarting. It gets to the desktop after which 5 seconds it restarts and continues to do this. I can't stay in windows for more than 5 seconds. When I go into boot settings, I chose, Don't restart upon failure. It booted up like it had been and instead of restarting, I got a blue screen.

"BAD POOL CALLER". That was the title of it. I have never seen that before and was wondering what it was and what it meant? Also, is this from a update from microsoft? That was the last thing I did on my system and it worked fine.

I read on a different forum and from what google could show that that pertains to a driver error. I ended up just booting into last known settings that worked and I am 'fine" but what was wrong?

[nekrosoft13]

what you have installed? any burning or cd-rom emulation software?

[Tr1cK]

It sounds like you may have downloaded a driver from the windows update site. I did that once....never again.

[Bearclaw]

It sounds like you may have downloaded a driver from the windows update site. I did that once....never again.
Ya, I downloaded a driver for my wireless card. After it installed thats when it happened.

[Tr1cK]

Never get drivers from Windows Update!

[Bearclaw]

Never get drivers from Windows Update!
Seriously. Luckily I was able to go to last good configuration. If not for that, I was thinking about reformatting. :headexplode:

I thought it was some sort of virus so I booted into safe mode and ran a few tests and whatnot and they all found nothing. I figured it was some sort of registry virus then or something they couldn't find. I was pissed.

Stupid windows driver updates.

[Q]

Never get drivers from Windows Update!

+10000000000000000000000000000

I agree, Mr. Trick.

[Bearclaw]

Well, now I know. I was trying to fix it for 2 hours this morning and finally didn't have to reformat, thank god.

[$n][pErMan]

Haha... we all learn that lesson at some point... I learned it way back on XP years ago :p

[Dirthead]

yep same here for me and drivers for a 56k modem!!,I was like oo ya new drivers, once the system restarted i was like umm this blue screen crash didnt look good,At the time i took my pc to repair shop as i didnt know much about computers Cost me 50 bucks and that was enough for me not to download drivers from mirco web site

[stncttr908]

+10000000000000000000000000000

I agree, Mr. Trick.
I get updates like network drivers and such regularly. Anything like sound, video, etc. I handle myself.

[hokeyplyr48]

is there a way to tell windows update you don't want it to go out and find video and sound drivers or is that a manual thing that you have to do? like only find networking drivers or something like that?