BSOD when installing steam games on Windows 7

[gosu2009]

I get BSOD: BAD_POOL_CALLER when installing any steam games on windows 7. It only happens with windows 7 because i tried it on vista and i didnt get BSOD. I've been playing games on steam for years on windows 7 and this just happened recently after i used system recovery and reinstalled my OS. I've updated/reinstalled all my drivers and that didnt fix it.

Anyone who knows a fix to this would be great.

 

[Alex The PC Gamer]

Not sure if it'll work but have you tried "re caching" your games?

 

[gosu2009]

I dont have any games installed. It just goes BSOD as soon as i initiate the install.

 

[Alex The PC Gamer]

It could be a lot of things but maybe you could try this?

If it's a software issue...
- Try launching STEAM in Windows Safe-mode (w/ Network) and see what happens.
- Disable (at least for testing) all the non-essential start up programs.

If that fails then you might want to test your hardware...
- Run a system RAM check...any errors?
- Run a Hard Drive check (for paging errors)...any errors?

Let us know how it goes.

Alex