Bad Pool Caller

DragonTamer1 · March 23, 2019

I have a home server that has been crashing with the Bad Pool Caller BSOD. At least I think so as this is the first time I've actually seen its bluescreen. I plan on trying to narrow down its cause but the odd thing is that it is causing my entire home network to shit itself in the process. Literally the whole network went down until the bluescreen was cleared. Has anyone ever heard of this before? Is it possible the network is causing the bluescreens?

foofy · March 23, 2019

As some basic troubleshooting, you should try running memtest86+ or similar, and also check your hard drive for corruptions. It sounds like your network driver / card could be having issues, and maybe spamming requests that are making the network go insane. Try re-seating it, if possible, and also try re-installing the driver and checking for updates.

Radium_Angel · March 23, 2019

9 minutes ago, DragonTamer1 said:

I have a home server that has been crashing with the Bad Pool Caller BSOD. At least I think so as this is the first time I've actually seen its bluescreen. I plan on trying to narrow down its cause but the odd thing is that it is causing my entire home network to shit itself in the process. Literally the whole network went down until the bluescreen was cleared. Has anyone ever heard of this before? Is it possible the network is causing the bluescreens?

Depending on how your server is configured along with your network, this could be "normal" (in other words, if the server is down, and all internet traffic goes through the server, then yeah, that's an issue)

a BPC BSoD is typically (though not always) associated with failing RAM.

Time to test your system RAM with MemTest86+