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bad pool caller. this is error, doesnt always mean what it says......bad pool caller can be a broken hard drive, faulty cpu or board,and usually the memory.and i some cases a faulty pic device firstly i would remove a stick of ram(only if you have more then one), then try again,if the same swap ram and try again..the idea being to find a faulty stick if you have one. if not remove all pci cards and then retry.... if not the only other way is to obtain another hard drive,then re-install xp to the new hard drive....then slave your old drive,copy all your data back over to the new install....then you could format your drive and do a full install. there are loads more avenue with "bad pool caller" but in my opinion this is what i would try. let me know how you get on. regards danzil. ps do you get any error codes if so what are they

hi again londonles wow mate that sux about your motherboard. anyway glad to see you back regards danzil

have you checked that your heatsink and fan on your cpu is clean and free of dust,and is spinning correctly.... please explain more,when does this happen give a description what you where running,,,,does this message appear on a blue screen...or a box... i have not seen such random numbers as yet, without a error code. regards danzil

no problem at all. danzil

you can purchase just the license key from some website then activate it using that as techadvance says. there are alternatives to microsoft office. like ability office is around £50 and has office compatibilty so you can open documents you have done previously using office click here http://www.ability.com/ or there is openoffice http://www.openoffice.org/ which is free regards danzil

there are 2 flavors really of xp 1 is xp home and the 2nd is xp pro, when you boot into the xp home cd,and run through to the repair installation, it will search for previous operating systems, this will tell you what you had previously, if your license key says xp home, and you have the xp home cd then you are fine to continue regards danzil

have you tried it in internet explorer yet have you reset mozilla defaults yet. download crap cleaner and run that as well to remove any annoying temp files,,,,,http://www.ccleaner.com danzil

good advice techadvance danzil

i built my pc at home,but forget what hardware is in it a lot.lol thanks for side windows hey. danzil

what bios do you have.it will tell you on first boot up, ie award,ami,phoenix there are some backdoor passwords.have you tried Toshiba worked on older models. like techadvance said removing the cmos battery may work, unless the password is stored on a chip. If all else fails, you may have to clear the BIOS password by resetting the RTC (Real Time Clock) IC (Integrated Circuit) on your motherboard. Many RTC's require an external battery. If your RTC is one of this type, you can clear the BIOS password just by unsocketing the RTC and reseating it. RTC's which require external batteries include: Dallas Semiconductor DS12885S TI benchmarq bq3258S Motorola MC146818AP Hitachi HD146818AP Samsung KS82C6818A Most RTC chips with integrated batteries can be reset to clear the BIOS password by shorting two pins together for a few seconds. this is not for the faint hearted tho the chips are small and shorting the wrong pins will corrupt your bios, and on some occasions kill your moard leaving you will an expensive doorstop. try the cmos battery first regards danzil

try explaining your IDE drive lay out,,,,whats connected to what. what drives what regards danzil

system restore guys that may work in vista danzil

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what drive has your operating system on, or is the new drive for your operating system post back danzil

absolutly agree. dust in the tray can cause as muc trouble as a dirty disc... a can of compressed air should do the trick..these cost about a fiver from http://www.cpc.co.uk or a new drive if it isnt the cd is only about £20 for a dvd/cdrw regards danzil

i believe sp1 for vista is out in november december time,but ya know microsoft probably get pulled back to fix yet more bugs.. techadvance i have been watching your post and like them.....i look forward to helping you,and more so helping the people on these forums,if i can help you post to me. and oh yeh nice forum, website my friend regards danzil

i agree with techadvance. try popping your xp cd in,then goin g to run then type in sfc /scannow this will make sure all your system files are intact and correct try this as well.if you dont need medcia player 10 or 11 then use classic,and or vlc media player which is awesome, if you need media player post back.. seems strange,..really hard to diagnose over the internet....as i hope you appreciatte. regards danzil

is your local area connection being found in start>control panel>network connections as posted above, this will help us loads regards danzil

what did dxdiag say did it laod, try this installing power dvd trial, http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/trials_1_ENU.html im interested to know if that will play dvd's,,if so retry windows media player....here is a link to re-install it http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx i would try that i found i uninstalled power dvd and then media player 11 would not player video only audio. i re-installed power dvd then i suddenly had video too, a weird issue, regards danzil

i would still try compatibility mode!!!!!. i have many programmes that are said "will not run in vista" that run perfectly fine in compatibilty mode for xp and 98/me i too have seen that site but who know its worth a try, i am not saying it will work for you though, i also have programmes that needed either upgrading or patching to run in vista. just my opnion. regards danzil

have you made sure you have set master and slave correctly. check the cabling going to any floppy drive you have.. is the new drive a slave or is it to have the operating system on it... if its blank and set to master,and also set to boot from it then you will receive this error with some bios's. check al lyour connections post back more info,,, danzil

no problem at all. regards danzil

i would advise blowing in to the cd drive, the smallest drop of salive (yuck) on your lense could make the matter worse..... have you tried the game in another pc to see if this happens. what game is it,have you searched for patches. regards danzil

does the 2nd psu work correctly in the pc you removed it from.... what model of board is it. need to know mainly if the fans turn, and if there is any beeps at all danzil

download smitfraud and run that download it from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/smitfraudfix.php if that by some chance doesnt remove it post back and i will post manuall removal options... once you have run the scan and removed it,,,do an online virus scan at http://www.trendmicro.com to make sure. regards danzil