I've been having problems with regular crashes on my system, BAD_POOL_CALLER and BAD_POOL_HEADER crashes were popping up regularly. Last November I opened a thread (
https://www.sysnative.com/forums/bs...ezes-no-immidiate-clear-cause.html?highlight=) about this issue. The one suggestion that came out of that, disabling the Intel Management Engine, had no effect. After a while using an Intel network card it became clear that the Killer Network card also wasn't the issue.
As luck would have it, I was able to switch out my motherboard/CPU/RAM for new components. I went from a MSI Z97 Gaming 7 to an ASUS Maximus VIII Hero, from an i7-4790K to an i7-6700K and from 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3-2133 RAM to 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-2666 RAM.
Of course I did a fresh install of 64-bit Windows 10 including the most recent drivers.
Unfortunately enough, it would appear the cause of the crashes is something else -- even with those new components, I'm still experiencing the crashes I was hoping to escape. This night and just now before I posted this, the system crashed again with a BAD_POOL_CALLER error... given that, I expect there will be a BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD sometime soon too.
So here I am again... hoping that there's someone here who can help figuring out where things go wrong on my system.
Attached, of course, the zipped PERFMON output and the Sysnative BSOD Collection dumps (please note, the information will indicate that the Intel Management Engine is disabled, but I did that after the first crash, the second crash occured with the Intel Management Engine disabled).
Also, as requested, information about my system:
· Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (version 1511, build 10586.63; fully up-to-date; clean install after upgrade from Windows 8.1)
· Motherboard, CPU, memory: new; Intel SSD: half a year old; Samsung SSD: approximately 18 months; hard drives: approximately 24 months;
· Intel Core i7-6700K (NOT overclocked)
· ASUS GeForce GTX980Ti (NOT overclocked)
· ASUS Maximus VIII Hero motherboard
· Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-2666 (4x8GB, NOT overclocked)
· Corsair AX760 PSU
· SoundBlaster ZxR sound card
· Intel 750 SSD 480GB (PCI-Express)
· 2x Western Digital Green 2TB hard drives
· Samsung 840 Pro 500GB
· Self-built desktop system
I'll be running memory diagnostics (even though I've already swapped out one DDR4 set for another) and hard drive diagnostics later on, at the moment I cannot spare the time for those extensive tests. I'll update this post when I have the results from these tests.
Of course I'll also try Driver Verifier. Let's see if that won't result in an immediate crash at boot, as happened with my previous system :)
View attachment perfmon.zip
View attachment SysnativeFileCollectionApp.zip
