blue screen of death

[nik-]

i have had my computer for little over a year the hard drive was replaced once,i am running vista business and whenever i launch a certain application a blue screen shows up saying"beginning crash dumping of physical memory" i usually shutdown my computer by holding down the power button when i see this blue screen what should i do to alleviate this problem?

[patio]

Post the complete BSOD error message including the gibberish...

[Allan]

Go to System Properties - Advanced - Startup & Recovery Settings and uncheck "automatically restart". Next time the blue screen appears it will remain on the screen until you force a reboot. Post the entire contents of that BSOD.

[Broni]

Download BlueScreenView
No installation required.
Double click on BlueScreenView.exe file to run the program.
When scanning is done, go Edit>Select All.
Go File>Save Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt.
Open BSOD.txt in Notepad, copy all content, and paste it into your next reply.

[nik-]

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Dump File         : Mini081109-01.dmp
Crash Time        : 8/11/2009 10:34:19 PM
Bug Check String  : BAD_POOL_HEADER
Bug Check Code    : 0x00000019
Parameter 1       : 0x00000022
Parameter 2       : 0x90f1a000
Parameter 3       : 0x00000000
Parameter 4       : 0x00000000
Caused By Driver  : ntkrnlpa.exe
Caused By Address : ntkrnlpa.exe+cd0e3
File Description  : NT Kernel & System
Product Name      : Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company           : Microsoft Corporation
File Version      : 6.0.6001.18226 (vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)
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Dump File         : Mini081409-01.dmp
Crash Time        : 8/14/2009 10:22:40 AM
Bug Check String  : KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Bug Check Code    : 0x1000008e
Parameter 1       : 0xc0000005
Parameter 2       : 0x9dd6fa59
Parameter 3       : 0xaac9d8d0
Parameter 4       : 0x00000000
Caused By Driver  : OEM02Dev.sys
Caused By Address : OEM02Dev.sys+3a59
File Description  : Video Capture Device Driver
Product Name      :
Company           : Creative Technology Ltd.
File Version      : 1.03.01.00
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[nik-]

the crashed happened when i tried to use my webcam, i have a dell xps m1530 running vista business sp1     

thx 4 the help

[Broni]

Well, you said:

whenever i launch a certain application a blue screen shows up

So far, you had 2 BSODs. What exactly do you mean by "certain application"? What that application would it be?

It's hard to say something conclusive from 2 BSODs.
Do you have separate video card, or it's on-board?