Whenever my LAN disconnects I get a BSOD

[AzNaLaN15]

So when my router crashes and it automatically reconnects to the lan, my computer gets a BSOD BAD_POOL_CALLER this happens like 50% of the time. Whats this mean?

[Vipersfate]

Sounds like it might be a driver problem. I've gotten BSODs before with similar situations. Does it give any file information that may have caused the problem?

[aftermath]

may seem odd but do you have a custom host file?
My win 2k has crashed before with a very large host file (<120000 entries)

[RJARRRPCGP]

So when my router crashes and it automatically reconnects to the lan, my computer gets a BSOD BAD_POOL_CALLER this happens like 50% of the time. Whats this mean?

STOP: BAD_POOL_CALLER probably is because of a buggy driver.

[AzNaLaN15]

i'll be sure to pay attention to the file information the next time it BSODs, as of now i havent disconnected so no BSODs luckily

i dont think i have a custom host file, anyway to check on this?

buggy driver on the video card end or nic end?

[aftermath]

You would know if you had edited it.

"J:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc" where j is my system disk
or on xp...
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc"

file called hosts

will probably be the NIC driver.
there wont be any harm in finding the latest one anyway.

[RJARRRPCGP]

i'll be sure to pay attention to the file information the next time it BSODs, as of now i havent disconnected so no BSODs luckily

i dont think i have a custom host file, anyway to check on this?

buggy driver on the video card end or nic end?

The NIC end.

[Nebuchadnazzar]

I had a similar problem and the only way i found to fix it was to do a windows repair install.

[Captain Newbie]

Bad driver. Five yard penalty. Repeat first down.

Must you really know, here (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314492) are the gnarly details on what this error means. But suffice to say it's a device driver misbehavior.

[AzNaLaN15]

lol damn motherboard drivers... i think the one i have is the newest one also...