When I try to burn a CD I get an error. Windows crashes. Blue Screen appears.

What is causing the problem?

Hugh, November 2003

This is due to the bad memory of the system. Try one memory on system and then boot up. Later try comibinations of memory chips in ports and you would be able to isolate that wether the error lies with the memory chip or the mobo.

Anshul Bhandari, January 2008

when i boot up windows xp i get a bad pool caller error on a blue screen. in order to get windows past the loading screen into the user select screen i have to unplug my USB mouse and printer. i have tried updating drivers (which all say there working fine) with divermagic pro and through device manager, but to no avail. please please help this has been bugging me for months!

danny boy, May 2005

Bad Pool Caller means a driver is trying to create a zero-bit pool, and the OS won't let it. Since it's happening when you burn CDs, try getting new drivers for your CD-RW drive, then your IDE controller, then your chipset, in that order. If those don't do it, try running Windows Update from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. I know there's an update for burning CDs in there somewhere. Good luck.

Some Random Tech, July 2004