Windows 10 bad_pool_header error

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Windows 10 bad_pool_header error

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I installed Windows 10 no problem on top of Windows 7 under Boot Camp.

Startup is quite slow, including 2 minutes of blank screen. But the lrager problem is half the startups result in a "bad_pool_header" error and then it reboots after collecting some system information.

I can disable the Generic PnP Monitor driver under the device manager once it's up and running, and it's stable after that, but every time I reboot Windows it reenables the Generic PnP Monitor. Is there a way to NOT have it reenabled, so my bootups don't crash so often?

(I know disabling the Generic PnP Monitor driver helped under Windows 8 with the same crash, according to several things I've read online).

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Aug 3, 2015 7:59 AM

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Answer 1

Rudegar

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Aug 3, 2015 10:22 AM in response to PJBCT

there are no windows 10 drivers from apple your best bet are the windows 8.1 drivers

or wait for official drivers

Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5640

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Tobismus

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Dec 27, 2015 9:25 AM in response to PJBCT

(did copy and paste my answer from another thread, sorry, I'm rather new around here..)

I do have w10 via bootcamp on a mid 11 iMac.
Had the BsoD with Bad_Pool_Header for some days now, but eventually was able to locate a new AMD/Intel driver (for Graphics) as source of the issue.
Rolling back to the old driver did work....... but w10 installed the new one, again. 😉

😉

Hopefully, I did find a solution (got a german version, so maybe I won't get all the words right):

Go to System Features (Systemeigenschaften) / Hardware, where you'll find a button called Device Installation Settings (Geräteinstallationseinstellungen).
There you can stop w10 from automatically installing new drivers.

Then, I found an MS tool called wushowhide.diagcab to 'hide' updates causing problems.
Using this tool, you can disable certain drivers/updates.
That seems to do the trick.

..or so I hope.. 😉😉

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Tobismus

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Dec 27, 2015 9:41 AM in response to PJBCT

...and about startup time, on my mid11 iMac it's about 30 seconds, but with an ssd as startup volume.
On my older MacPro from 2006 it's about 2 minutes, too.
Anyway, on the MP I rolled back to w7, to be on the safe side, workingwise.
W7 also needs 2 minutes to boot.

Best, Tobi

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