PFN List Corrupt BSOD – Vista Home Basic [party drivers] [new hardware]
Re:I know I am replying to an old post, but I recently got the pfn list corrupt BSOD on my laptop. I had just put in a 2GB stick into my new Acer laptop (now running one 512 stick & one 2GB stick). I booted the computer to a BSOD. I took the 512 stick out and ran it with just the new, 2GB stick- it booted up fine. Now I knew it wasn't the new stick of RAM. Finally I switched the order of the memory in the so-dimm slots. Booted up fine. For some reason, something didn't like the two sticks of RAM where they were. I switched them around, and now all is fine.
Re:I tested it for another day with the new cooling, and didn't get any crashes, so I've delivered the box to good ol' mom, and am going to cross my fingers that the cooling was the problem, and hope that it doesn't happen again.
Re:So what's your plan?
Are you going to do the LiveCD stuff or just hope that the cooling fixes it?
I'm actually really curious what the problem is here.
Re:RAM timings according to Memtest86+ are 3-3-3-8. FSB 200MHZ, DDR400.
Interesting you should mention the HD causing BAD_POOL_HEADER. It's a brand-new 250GB Seagate though. I'm using a 24" rounded IDE cables snaked to both the HD (Master) and the DVD (Slave) on the primary IDE port. SATA ports are disabled in BIOS. I've been using the same rounded cables in my other machine though and it's rock-solid.
Did the Evercool VC-RE heatsink mod to the northbridge. Now it gets barely warm. (Assuming I put it on correctly.) No crashes today yet, I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Also disabled "smart fan" in my BIOS, so fans run at 100%.
Re:Try a LiveCD like BartPE (Windows) or Ubuntu (Linux). This can help determine if it's a problem with your core system (CPU/mainboard/PSU/memory) or the hard disk you're installing to/reading from. I've gotten BAD_POOL_HEADER when my IDE controller (AFAIK) was shot. A mainboard replacement fixed that one.
If you use the Ubuntu LiveCD you can get more debug messages by using the "dmesg" command. You can redirect that to a file and post the file if you'd like.
LiveCDs may still access the HD a tad by probing for IDE controllers and partitions as well as for swap space (but only if you specify).
Re:It's either really bad drivers or your system is very, very, very unstable. Check your RAM timings.
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