Bad Pool header

[vicveco]

My Pc is continuosly crashing and the blue death screen with the bad pool header message appears the following the following numbers appear

BAD_POOL_HEADER

bla bla bla bla bla

STOP 0x00000019 (0x00000020, 0x860B7888, 0x860B78B8, 0x0A060001)

also the network its a slower than usual and when i play warcraft on battle net once in a while all the pc freezes (sound and video ). Dont know whats going pleas help me!!!A month ago ive installed BIT DEFENDER 9 STANDARD dont know if thats the problem, heres my configuration

WINDOWS XP HOME SP2
ASUS A8NSLI PREMIUM
AMD ATHLON 3700+ (SAN DIEGO)
EVGA GEFORCE 6800 SUPERCLOCKED
1 GB OCZ DDR EL PLATINUM REVISION 2
HITACHI DESKTAR SATA 3.0 250 GB
COOLER MASTER CENTURION 5

 

[VicodiN]

If you get a BAD_POOL_HEADER Blue Screen Of Death on bootup and have a NetGear wireless network card in your machine, then remove it. More than likely this will allow you to boot. I've also heard of some LinkSys wireless network cards causing this same error as well. As of the writing of this article, there are no new drivers from either LinkSys or NetGear. I've also been unable to find any support on their site about the issue. If your NetGear card uses the Atheros chipset, then you may be able to use those drivers to get back up and running.

Note: If you still can't boot even with the card removed, or into safe mode, you'll need to use the recovery console to disable the driver.

The Indexing Service will, on occasion, also cause SP2 to crash. I suspect that machines that start to exhibit this symptom after having SP2 installed have greater underlying issues. Anyway, to stop the indexing service from running, then click Start->Run type services.msc, and click OK.

Double click the Indexing Service and set the startup type to either manual, or disabled. By default, I believe it's manual. (You'll notice on this machine it's not running, and is set to manual. I haven't changed the setting at all. Also, this machine is running SP2) If your machine BSOD's upon bootup, then you'll likely have to boot to safe mode to change this. You can also disable the Indexing Service using msconfig, however, it's generally better practice to do it the services.msc way.