windows 7 Dozens of Laptops in school system blue screening this week. Bad_Pool_Header

[Guest EpicPhelan]

All of a sudden we have dozens of our laptops blue screening. The blue screen says Bad_Pool_Header. I looked on this developer doc, and saw it has to do with the memory pool, but I have no idea what we are doing that could have done this. Since it started happening to all of them last week I highly doubt it was the physical memory.

 

 

The laptops in question are Dell 3340s. They are running windows 7 and we use Active Directory and have them enrolled in our domain.

 

Nothing changed with the hardware. I doubt all these people would have downloaded new software unless it was a Windows update.

 

 

Any ideas of suggestions would be appreciated. Right now we are able to fix it by re-imaging the laptops using KACE, but that takes a long time.

 

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