Beginning Dump Of Physical Memory

[Ulysses Sam]

My OS is Windows 2000 Pro & 512 DDR RAM. Since the installation of the following freeware-HDDlife Pro with HDDlife, HDD Health ( software monitoring the HDD's performace, reliability,temperature,etc ), iL Electronic Meter ( measuring free and in use HDD's and RAM's capacity )-the PC fails to start up properly with the following message:

*** STOP: 0X000000C2 <0X00000099, 0XE32148E8, 0X00000000,
0X000000007
BAD_POOL_CALLER
Beginning dump of physical memory.

This is not a major fault, not a fault at all, if I may say so, but a constant irriitant! When the PC's power is off and it is re-started again there is no more stop-sign message and it works normally!

I think the problem lies in having three HDD monitoring software, two are packaged together, HDDlife Pro and HDDlife, and HDD Health which is by itself.

WHAT ARE YOUR SUGGESTIONS FOR REMOVING THIS IRRITANT, BESIDES REMOVING ALL OR TWO OF THE HDD MONITORING SOFTWARE. THANKS.

[Sylvander]

Find 0X000000C2 HERE (http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/kbasewinxp.htm) .

Got lots of hits for this at the MS Knowledge Base site http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1.
e.g
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309155/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820765/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321793/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896674/en-us

[Sylvander]

For the future, you might want to try something I do, as follows...

1. I move all my data files off C: to keep it as small as possible; just holding Windows, Programs, swap-file, registry/configuration files.

2. As I move forward in time...
Make image backups of all partitions; particularly C:
Particularly make a backup just before installing something new, or making a significant configuration change.

3. If any forward move causes a problem, or if I so much as suspect that all is not well, I restore a recent good backup [e.g. the one made before the install].
This would undo what had caused the problem and I'd be able to have a second go at it, but this time forewarned.
This is much better than uninstalling because it returns things to precisely the way they were before the change.

[jeckgo]

Please download and run memtest for a few hours, or preferably overnight as BSODs of that nature are usually caused by bad memory

After that, I recommend installing prime95 and letting it run for a few hours to make sure your system is stable, as that would be the second reason for a BSOD such as this

Might wanna bust out a multimeter and get a measurement of your PSU rails although based on the fact that you said iL electronic meter measures memory capacity I am inclined to believe that your memory is at fault