BSODs, are what they are commonly known as. It is Microsoft's way of preventing critical errors from destroying either their software and/or hardware as well as providing useful debugging code to their analysts and other programmers. But to the consumer, it is laughable - for some. However, for others BSODs are annoyingly painful, especially if it starts to happen on your daily workstation that stores all your E-Mails since 1995.
Like the Poweruser that I am, I got sick of seeing the BSOD. It started happening 5 days ago, out of the blue (sorry for the pun), whilst switching between Opera and WMP/Explorer. Last night I tried to transfer some of my albums between my PDA and laptop. In the middle of the transfer, Windows gave a bad_pool_caller at address cX000000D1... which obviously makes no sense to me. Upon reboot, it ran fine for 5 minutes, then "froze" again.
I pulled out my external Hard Disk and transferred all my laptop data onto it. Then i inserted my Windows XP Install Disc and deleted the partition on my laptop. It felt satisfying, to delete your 80% fragmented hard disk and create a brand new partition (I skipped the Low Level Format.) Four hours later, everything was up and running, all my essentials and peripherals - the feeling was great; since Windows now loaded within a fraction of what it used to.
The BOSD is still phantasmous to my system however, sticking its ugly head during one shut down (!) and without fail upon remote connections.
...next up, memory module diagnostics...
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