Re: system crash

2009-07-01 Thread Jeff Bunting
Well, it did the trick for me; got multiple SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION crashes this morning. So from all the reading I've been doing, something is touching memory it shouldn't and is causing the dump. I'm not sure how I tie bea06ff8 back to the offender though: Kernel Summary Dump F

RE: system crash

2009-06-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
pt someone else's memory (and the machine will BSOD at that point). Cheers Ken From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: system crash On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Steven M

RE: system crash

2009-06-30 Thread Steven M. Caesare
How "uncertain". Damn cats. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: system crash On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Driver veri

Re: system crash

2009-06-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Driver verifier actually allocates pool differently in order to detect > pool allocation errors on boundaries. This by itself is sometimes enough > to avoid the problem, in my experience... although technically the > allocation should stil

RE: system crash

2009-06-30 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: system crash On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > If you can enable Driver Verifier with Special Pool on this box and wait for > it to crash again, that wo

Re: system crash

2009-06-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > If you can enable Driver Verifier with Special Pool on this box and wait for > it to crash again, that would be great: I highly recommend this. I enabled Driver Verifier on a laptop that was crashing and it hasn't crashed since. ;-) I

Re: system crash

2009-06-30 Thread Jeff Bunting
Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. I've got in enabled and will attempt a reboot this evening if possible. Jeff On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > *Jeff-* > > * * > > *If you can enable Driver Verifier with Special Pool on this box and wait > for it to crash again, that wo

RE: system crash

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Desmond
Jeff- If you can enable Driver Verifier with Special Pool on this box and wait for it to crash again, that would be great: Start>run>verifier Goto Settings Sort on the Provider column Select all the non Microosft ones, check Speal Pool (on the right), select Verify Select Apply Reboot Thanks,