Interesting bad_pool_header BSOD in WinXP and Firefox 3

[rkawakami]

A few minutes ago I was typing up a reply in another thread when the keyboard appeared to lock up in the middle of hitting the backspace key several times in a row. I was able to switch to other applications (Alt-Tab) that were running but not do anything in them. Up in the Firefox 3 title bar, "Not responding" was being shown. After a couple of more seconds I was greeted with a bad_pool_header Blue Screen and the system re-booted. On restart, I figured that Firefox would save all of the tabs that I had opened when the system crashed but was pleasantly surprised that I was still logged into TPF (eBay signed me out) and that almost all of the typing I had done was saved .

I ran a file system check on the 90% full 60GB drive (:eek:), which did not find anything. Nothing has been changed on this T23 in quite awhile (hardware or software) so I'm pretty sure it can't be that. I've yet to run a memory diagnostic but I'm thinking that a background database compression was the cause of the BSOD, my first in many moons....

[GomJabbar]

I remember posting about that before. One of the causes at least is bad memory.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51809
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=39598
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45601

[jdhurst]

Ray - I hope it is hardware error (not that I want you to any errors), but people like you and me are so careful with our computers that BSOD's have become a distant past of Win9x (gone in 1999 in my case). So I hope you are not breaking our record and having OS problems .... JDH

[RealBlackStuff]

I used W2K until 2005, I was a late converter to XP.
I am not quite that far yet, but the current XP-Pro installation on my desktop dates from May 2005.
This too is a crashfree install.
That PC is a dual-boot W2K and XP, but I can't remember the last time I even booted into W2K.
Only problem I ever had was caused by the Agnitum Outpost Pro V3 firewall, which I dumped, first for Comodo, and finally for Online Armor.
I need to clone the two 80GB hard disks soon, as they are getting full.

I am actually considering a fresh install (which would put me out of your league...)

[jdhurst]

I have done fresh installs to increase hard drive capacity, but I don't regard that as a crash or breaking my own record. So you are still in our league.

Off-topic: Maybe one day I shall create a thread for those of us who forgot BSOD's before some users on this board were even born

... JDH