Problem Blue Screening

I would not in the least remove any file. I believe it it time to upgrade your anti-vrus to Kaspersky, NOD32, AVG, AVAST!, or Anti-Vir.

AVAST! has a very nice free home edition antivirus offering.

Buy the way, uninstalling Symantic/Norton can be a major pain because it leaves behind remnants. Go to the Security forum here and follow their rules on how to completely remove Norton. It is a sticky.

Hmm ok i got a new os, and everything was fine for about a week and a half.
then i got another bsod, here is the attached minidump.

Minidump was corrupted and thus unreadable.

New OS, but did you upgrade your ant-virus, etc. as has been suggested?

Yeah i had gotten that avast stuff. And i still got problems
im starting over, using my second hd as a primary and gettin rid of my primary. Right after all my drivers, i got
bad pool header again. Right after i dled winrar. This time i used graphics drivers, chipset drivers, from their respective sites
gunna try avast again thnx for the help so far
1/2 way through the avast dl i got bad pool header again. So one of my drivers is messed up im guessing?
rig:
abit in9 32x max mobo
3.0 ghz intel duo core
2 gigs ocz ram
8600 gt 512 mb
maxtor 320 hd
lg 18x dvd drive
on top of default drivers:
divx
realtek
firefox
launchy
ux theme multip patcher.
2 minutes of my computer on error code: pfn list corrupt

0x00000019: BAD_POOL_HEADER

A pool header issue is a problem with Windows memory allocation. Device driver issues are probably the most common, but this can have diverse causes including bad sectors or other disk write issues, and problems with some routers. (By theory, RAM problems would be suspect for memory pool issues, but I haven’t been able to confirm this as a cause.)


The above was from auhma.org and I highlited bad sectors and disk write issues because of your suspect of just a bad harddrive.

Let us know if your solution works.

im using a new hd from my previous one. my uguru is constantly reporting problems now. if that has nething to do with it. i wud reinstall it using the cd and its not working. i dont know if my uguru not working is a symptom of my bsod problems or not.

i am using anew hd, same brand and make but a different one. my uguru isnt working now at all, it says it encounters a problem everytime i try to start it up. i dont know if its a symptom of my bsod or if its just a fluke. whoops double post

Just did a chkdsk(only way i know how to find errors with hd) : and will do the /f once my computer restarts.

around my last post, i rearranged the RAM, it worked fine until today.
attached is the minidump.

The date for the first one is today.
The second one is three days from now, the 20th... when its still the 17th...

Your older of the two dumps was unreadable.

Your newer one shows a 0x4E error: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
This indicates that the memory management Page File Number list is corrupted. Can be caused by corrupt physical RAM, or by drivers passing bad memory descriptor lists.

The cause was listed as memory corruption.

ok ill do another memtest

i ran for a week with only one ram stick, switching between them at the half way mark. At the end of those three days (each) i had no problems and i ran a memtest for each individual stick. no problems detected with either stick. today, i inserted the second stick, i got a blue screen about 2 minutes after boot up.
bad_pool_header.

becuz i have had this error b4, i have already checked for its problems, and have ruled out hd(got a new one to be sure), drivers (used a variety from disk and online),RAM(just checked recently as mentioned above), as for the router- other computers in the house have no problems what so ever though mine is the only hand built one. what do i do now? whats is it still the RAM? cuz i get no problems with either of them individually...

i restarted the computer again, within another two minutes i got another bluescreen.
memory_management
i get so frequently bsod's plus the wide variety of error messages suggest something would be wrong with my?

then with another restart 5 minutes till bad_pool_header again
and now one stick and its perfectly fine..

The problem with Bad Pool Header errors as per M$ is that even the !analyze of the debugger has problems zeroing in on the issue.

It appears to be how Windows is allocating memory.

well, each individual stick of RAM is ok but, when both put together, bsods come. what do i do to fix this?

does avast auto block things? cuz i got a trojan warning and sirens went off so i panicked and closed everything and iono if it took care of it or if i need to hunt it down and manually get rid of it.

It depends on how you set it up. See what your quarantine report reads. I would do a manual scan and, yes, anti-virus programs will block as that is a main part of their protection.

Also, have you tried different RAM slot configurations: 1-2, 1-3 or 2-4 to see if that stops the BSODs?

ya when first built the system i ran it as 1-3, after first crash i swapped to 1-2 then ive tried 2-4 after that crash.

after manual scan it said nothing. shud i assume that my system is fine?

I think the only way you can tell is if you receive no more BSODs.

Try Trend-Micro's free online scan.

so its not like im lacking software that allows me to run 2 gigs?

No, on your question. Have you tried different slot combinations for your RAM, i.e. 1-3, 2-4?

yeah i have