Friend's PC keeps crashing

[afyeung]

Hey guys,

 

My friend recently built a new PC using parts from his old dell optiplex. This includes the original RAM(8gb DDR3), i7 2600, and 1TB HDD. He put this on an AsRock Z77 MoBo and added a Gigabyte 290x. He was having issues the first time so I recommend he switched his 750w ThermalTake PSU for something else. He also RMA'ed the GPU and they said it was good. He switched to the EVGA 850w G2 but now he's still getting BSOD bad_pool_header. Which part could be bad?

 

Thanks

 

[refinedskillz]

Never heard of such error.

[don_svetlio]

HDD?

 

EDIT:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557389%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[PlayStation 2]

bad_pool_header sounds like something related to the hard drive.

Surely enough, I'm right. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557389(v=vs.85).aspx

[Swndlr]

Coming str8 from Microsoft's website

 

"A pool header issue is a problem with Windows memory allocation. Device driver issues are probably the most common, but this can have diverse causes including bad sectors or other disk write issues, and problems with some routers. (By theory, RAM problems would be suspect for memory pool issues)."

[afyeung]

yeah. now he's trying with 1 stick of ram

[Quinnbeast]

If anything is overclocked, knock it back down to stock speed.