Bad_Pool_Header

Hello, today i turned on my pc selected my OS (windows 10 Home 64-bit) everything seemed normal but as i was checking thunderbird i got a BSOD saying WIN 10 had crashed and to search Bad_Pool_Header for more info after a little bit the screen just went blank and didn't restart.

After waiting about 2 minutes i just held the power switch to force it to shutdown, and after it finished shutting down i turned it back on to lookup what happened, the PC just sat at a blank screen. I shut it down again and tried to put an old ubuntu 9.04 live disc in it to see if it would boot from disc and got the same thing. (also tried 2 different windows 10 install discs)

So after all of that i unplugged everything but my monitor and it started up again, i figure it had something to do with what was plugged in so i tried plugging in everything i had in when it crashed one by one and into every port, ran a memory test and no problems came up.

I looked at the memory dump and it says there was a problem probably caused by a usb port but i don't know anything about memory dumps so i thought i would ask for advice here. I have attached a log of the dump.

bad pool header.TXT

Also here is the zip file that was requested from the posting sticky

DESKTOP-Q940RMT-Wed_02_17_2016_153619_54.zip

It is indeed USB related, but the win32k.sys driver is associated with the graphics where the graphics drivers have been flagged a bit later in the dump too.
What USB devices do you have?

Code:

******************************************************************************* *                                                                             * *                        Bugcheck Analysis                                    * *                                                                             * *******************************************************************************  Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.  BugCheck 19, {20, ffffe00106761180, ffffe001067611d0, 4050005}  *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for win32k.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for win32k.sys Probably caused by : USBPORT.SYS ( USBPORT!USBPORT_Core_iCompleteDoneTransfer+a07 )  Followup: MachineOwner ---   fffff803`b157c818  fffff801`55483b81Unable to load image SystemRootsystem32DRIVERSatikmdag.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for atikmdag.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for atikmdag.sys  atikmdag+0xb3b81 0: kd> lmvm atikmdag start             end                 module name fffff801`553d0000 fffff801`55f83000   atikmdag T (no symbols)                Loaded symbol image file: atikmdag.sys     Image path: SystemRootsystem32DRIVERSatikmdag.sys     Image name: atikmdag.sys     Timestamp:        Tue Jan 13 17:48:21 2015(54B54C55)     CheckSum:         00B63BEF     ImageSize:        00BB3000     Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Please uninstall everythingof AMDusing Display Driver Uninstallerand install new drivers from AMD. Be sure to install as less as possiblesoftware using custom/advanced options.

I uninstalled everything from AMD and installed the forced options and the display drivers for my card (had to use the installer for windows 8 because they didn't have an option for 10)

The USB devices i have are just an old HP mouse, old HP speakers, and a zalman keyboard.

I do sometimes connect a ps3 controller to use in steam. (wasn't connected at the time of the crash)

Thanks for helping out by the way.

Remove the speakers.

How old are they exactly?

They are the only ones i have right now but i will look for new ones soon.

I think they came with my HP a735w so they should be about 12 years old now.

Time for replacement then, I doubt there will be drivers for Windows 10.