Panic
Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
Automatically Restart.
Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select
option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.
Background information on Stop Error message
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms796120.aspx
0x000000C2: BAD_POOL_CALLER
A kernel-mode process or driver incorrectly attempted to perform memory
operations. Typically, a faulty driver or buggy software causes this.
Source:
http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm
Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.
Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on
the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties,
Hardware,Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code?
Try Start, Run, type "sigverif.exe" without quotes and hit OK. What
drivers are listed as unsigned? Disregard those which are not checked.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Panic wrote:
> I have XP Home with SP2 and current updates.
>
> Lately when my computer has sat unused (but on) for a few hours when
> I come back I sometimes find the blue screen of death telling me that
> my computer is shutting down to protect itself due to a
> BAD_POOL_CALLER. The screen stays that way while it slowly moves
> data from memory to my hard drive and then reboots and everything
> works fine for a few days. Yesterday when it happened I started
> writing down the stop code but only got the first section before the
> reboot. It read ***STOP: 0X000000C2 (and about 3 other long codes
> I didn't get copied.)
> Anyone have an idea what this is all about? The warning text says
> maybe something I just loaded or connected is bad and I might have to
> boot to the SAFE mode to deactivate it. But everytime it
> automatically reboots OK and works fine. It may be doing this when
> I'm not aware of it since after it finishes
> copying memory to disk it reboots and operates normally.
>
> I would suspect a bad screen saver but I'm using the Blank screen
> option that
> comes with XP and it is set to operate after 1 hour of inactivity.
> Just as a test
> I just changed my screen saver to None to see what that will do.
Linear Mode
