BSOD: BAD_POOL_HEADER and ntoskrnl.exe (possibly atikmdag.sys)

goeme3

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Hello,

I am getting two different BSODs when starting up my computer. The first one occurs shortly after the motherboard splash screen, and is usually a BAD_POOL_HEADER. The second one occurs shortly after I log into Windows 10, and this BSOD is different each time, but from BlueScreenView, appears to have to do with ntoskrnl.exe. Both of these BSODs only occur once. After I restart the machine, they are gone until the next day when I start up my computer again.

Here is a folder with many minidumps from the past few months:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jep1z80zkmkw77v/AAAjUxmOh5EEjc3B39kI_pxoa?dl=0
There are also a couple of dumps from driver verifier.

Thanks for your help.

Update:
I've recently found the time to run driver verifier, which is now implicating atikmdag.sys. I've followed some instructions from the answer here (http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1656824/atikmdag-sys-error-bsod-startup.html), but running driver verifier again still fails with atikmdag.sys as the culprit. The minidumps have been uploaded.
 
Hi,

Please do try these troubleshooting steps that may help.
- Start by running Windows Update and install all the updates.
- Next is to do a clean install method of the graphics card driver.
- Go to Device Manager and uninstall the AMD graphics driver.
- Next is to check Programs and Features and uninstall anything related to AMD or ATI.
- Once done, download and install the latest driver from AMD.
- Here's the link: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
- Do a reboot once the latest driver has been installed.
- And after the reboot do observe if you'll have the same problem or not.
- If it will not work do also run a test with the RAM's just to make sure it's them that is causing the problem. Use memtest86 which you can download for free to run the test.
- If all these will not work last option would be to reinstall Windows 10.