kunit1 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Hi,I just upgraded to utorrent 1.8 yesterday and there seems to be a problem;everytime I run utorrent 1.8 for about an hour or so I get a BSOD that says, "BAD_POOL_HEADER"This has to be caused by utorrent 1.8 because it doesn't happen when its not running and it didn't happen with utorrent 1.7.7.Any help would be appreciatedOS: XP SP2Anti-Virus: NOD32 V3.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Is a .sys file mentioned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 It's generally a driver issue, though bad RAM is a potential cause. Write down the full message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan_e Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 I have the same BSOD (BAD_POOL_HEADER) problem. For me anyway, I've narrowed the problem down to the resume.dat file. If ever I close utorrent and reopen, or start it again after a reboot I have this problem. I'm currently running the latest beta, but I tried downgrading to v1.8stable but I still had the problem. If I delete the resume.dat file all is well and I can open the program fine, but I lose all my torrents.Never had a problem until v1.8. PC runs fine until a file needs to resume downloading in uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 chkdsk /R your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan_e Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 Did that. No problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 You did that just now? Considering that chkdsk /R usually takes a few hours to run on a modern drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan_e Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 You don't need to assume that everyone posting with a problem is an idiot. I fix PCs for a living, and am by no means technically incompetent.I meant that I have just done one... prior to posting on this thread. I'll be running another tonight just for kicks, but I'm pretty sure that's not the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Do you have any minidump files from the BSOD? Normally they're stored in %windir%\minidump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kunit1 Posted August 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Sorry for the delay in responseanyways,here is the message (image): http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08340/picture_535743.jpgminidump: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=892607103bef5259d2db6fb9a8902bdaRAM: 2 passes, 0 errorsHD: all good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Probably caused by : afd.sys ( afd+3a63 )This is a winsock driver, so it points to an issue with either some sort of av/firewall, or your network card drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kunit1 Posted August 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 thanks for the reply Firon,any suggestions for a solution,Anti-virus: NOD 32 V3Firewall: Windows Firewall Network Card Drivers: Haven't been changedMy question is: Why does this only happen with utorrent 1.8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Because 1.8 probably makes different winsock calls and triggers a bug in one of your drivers/firewall.Easiest thing to try is uninstall NOD32. If you're on XP, also run Winsock XP Fix afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delcedo Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Hi!I've the same problem, since I run utorrent 1.8.I've no antivirus and no virus on my computer.XP firewall onlyI've XP SP3 (maybe SP3 is the pb)I'll try to find previous version of utorrent. Try to fix that please :-). And another thing, I prefer the previous icon of the program to the new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Post the bluescreen.We can't fix kernel-level issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delcedo Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Sorry I've not got camera, so I can't post the bluescreen.10 crashes this evening, I'm fed up with it :/. I try to run with only utorrent process and Windows process. Is somebody have an old version of utorrent?***I'll just come back from a BSOD. It was written: "IRQL_LESS_EQUAL" or something like that. It seems to be the same BSOD than this link: http://board.flashkit.com/board/archive/index.php/t-467942.htmlMy last driver that I've added was with this f*** iTunes and QuickTime for my iPod Touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Does c:\windows\minidump have an .dmp files?upload the newest one to a hosting site and link it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Once you do, we can examine it and tell you driver is the most likely cause.If there's no dump files in there, enable the feature.How to enable minidumpsSome may choose to disable the creation of minidumps (to save space perhaps?), but they are very important when troubleshooting a problem. To enable the minidumps: 1. Press Win+Pause to start the System Properties dialog; 2. Go to Advanced\Startup and recovery; 3. Ensure that Write debugging information is set to Small memory dump (64 kb).But by default, it is enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delcedo Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Sorry, I disabled it, so I haven't minidumps (no to save space because they didn't take much space, but just in case of crash to reboot immediately without waiting the dumping).My download is now finished, but next time I'll download a torrent, I'll send you minidumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Well, the minidump (64kb) dumps pretty fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowslayer Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Ive had this same problems since the 29th and after long investigation I found out its caused from "Nvidia Firewall". Uninstall it and alls well Hopes this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Nvidia's Forceware Firewall is just plain bad. It's even mentioned in uTorrent's FAQs as buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Beyond just µTorrent, really. MANY MANY MANY P2P applications are broken by nVidia's firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Probably should include network-using programs, not just P2P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 I originally wrote that, but wasn't too sure of that claim, so just went the safe route of "P2P" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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