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05-07-2005, 19:29

Lately I've been getting these really annoying BSOD's, from either of the following:

- Closing UT2004
- Map change in UT2004
- Seconds into a game in UT2004, lock up, then blue screen
- Changing speaker modes in the Creative panel (2.1 to 5.1)

The STOP messages are usually:

BAD_POOL_HEADER (usually on UT2004 map changes)

and

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (this one also states ntoskrnl.exe, and I have been getting it the most).

As it seems to be partly the Creative speaker panel causing this I thought it was a sound driver issue, but I've tried the latest stable version and the OpenAL beta driver but they both cause the same thing.

Any ideas what this could be, it's annoying the hell out of me!

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro SP4, all up-to-date.

Thanks!

05-07-2005, 19:29	#1
Electrolyte01 Guest Posts: n/a	IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - ntoskrnl.exe BSOD Lately I've been getting these really annoying BSOD's, from either of the following: - Closing UT2004 - Map change in UT2004 - Seconds into a game in UT2004, lock up, then blue screen - Changing speaker modes in the Creative panel (2.1 to 5.1) The STOP messages are usually: BAD_POOL_HEADER (usually on UT2004 map changes) and IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (this one also states ntoskrnl.exe, and I have been getting it the most). As it seems to be partly the Creative speaker panel causing this I thought it was a sound driver issue, but I've tried the latest stable version and the OpenAL beta driver but they both cause the same thing. Any ideas what this could be, it's annoying the hell out of me! I'm running Windows 2000 Pro SP4, all up-to-date. Thanks!