Hey,

I recently installed Vista RC1 on my dell inspiron 6400 (Australian Model)
Laptop. It has decent specs with and:

ATI x1400 video card,
core2 duo 2GHz processor,
1 gig ram

I installed Vista with the power cable plugged in and everything went fine.
After it was installed still everything was fine. I then wanted to move my
laptop, so i unplugged the power adaptop (while vista was still running) and
attempted to move it. I instantly got a 'Bad_Pool_Caller' blue screen error.
So after restarting without the the cable plugged in i got the same error.
I figured there must be a problem running on pure battery. So i plugged the
cable back in and restared again...same error. I noticed the laptop does not
recognise the cable is in, but still recharges the battery.

I started windows in safe mode with networking and here i am now, its
running fine in safe mode.

If anyone could help me it would be Greatly appreciated.

Sorry about the double topic post, it said it didnt work the fist time

hi,
interesting. I noticed that just yesterday also. I first did not know what
happened. I took my notebook (same as yours E1505) home and just unplugged
the power and did a shutdown. What I didn't see is the blue screen and the
notebook rebooting while it was in my bag. Later at home I noticed that the
bag was pretty warm and found out that the notebook was running on full all
the time and drained the battery to 0.

I had no idea what happened until I removed the power while it was running.
Got the same BSOD. However, when I restarted the PC on just battery it
booted up fine into Vista RC1. I plugged the power back in fine also. I
guess unplugging it while it's running is not safe yet.

let me know if you come across a solution.


"Jonolomu" wrote in message
...
Hey,

I recently installed Vista RC1 on my dell inspiron 6400 (Australian Model)
Laptop. It has decent specs with and:

ATI x1400 video card,
core2 duo 2GHz processor,
1 gig ram

I installed Vista with the power cable plugged in and everything went
fine.
After it was installed still everything was fine. I then wanted to move
my
laptop, so i unplugged the power adaptop (while vista was still running)
and
attempted to move it. I instantly got a 'Bad_Pool_Caller' blue screen
error.
So after restarting without the the cable plugged in i got the same error.
I figured there must be a problem running on pure battery. So i plugged
the
cable back in and restared again...same error. I noticed the laptop does
not
recognise the cable is in, but still recharges the battery.

I started windows in safe mode with networking and here i am now, its
running fine in safe mode.

If anyone could help me it would be Greatly appreciated.

I'm glad im not alone. No solution yet, i have tried disableing most devices
as im sure its a device error, but i began to get new errors, such as BSOD
'page_fault_in_non_paged_area.'


"Hilmar" wrote:

hi,
interesting. I noticed that just yesterday also. I first did not know what
happened. I took my notebook (same as yours E1505) home and just unplugged
the power and did a shutdown. What I didn't see is the blue screen and the
notebook rebooting while it was in my bag. Later at home I noticed that the
bag was pretty warm and found out that the notebook was running on full all
the time and drained the battery to 0.

I had no idea what happened until I removed the power while it was running.
Got the same BSOD. However, when I restarted the PC on just battery it
booted up fine into Vista RC1. I plugged the power back in fine also. I
guess unplugging it while it's running is not safe yet.

let me know if you come across a solution.


"Jonolomu" wrote in message
...
Hey,

I recently installed Vista RC1 on my dell inspiron 6400 (Australian Model)
Laptop. It has decent specs with and:

ATI x1400 video card,
core2 duo 2GHz processor,
1 gig ram

I installed Vista with the power cable plugged in and everything went
fine.
After it was installed still everything was fine. I then wanted to move
my
laptop, so i unplugged the power adaptop (while vista was still running)
and
attempted to move it. I instantly got a 'Bad_Pool_Caller' blue screen
error.
So after restarting without the the cable plugged in i got the same error.
I figured there must be a problem running on pure battery. So i plugged
the
cable back in and restared again...same error. I noticed the laptop does
not
recognise the cable is in, but still recharges the battery.

I started windows in safe mode with networking and here i am now, its
running fine in safe mode.

If anyone could help me it would be Greatly appreciated.

Found a workaround, bit of a pain tho, have a look

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...6633&SiteID=17

Aparently if you disable speedstep, disable a cpu, or rollback the bios it
works fine.

I deleted Vista, so im gna reinstall it and see if it works by disableing
speedstep.

ahh, thanks. sounds familiar. I will try to disable speedstep as well and
see how that goes.

thanks for the find

"Jonolomu" wrote in message
news
Found a workaround, bit of a pain tho, have a look

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...6633&SiteID=17

Aparently if you disable speedstep, disable a cpu, or rollback the bios it
works fine.

I deleted Vista, so im gna reinstall it and see if it works by disableing
speedstep.

seems to be fixed with 5728. I have no problems anymore.
cool

"Jonolomu" wrote in message
...
Hey,

I recently installed Vista RC1 on my dell inspiron 6400 (Australian Model)
Laptop. It has decent specs with and:

ATI x1400 video card,
core2 duo 2GHz processor,
1 gig ram

I installed Vista with the power cable plugged in and everything went
fine.
After it was installed still everything was fine. I then wanted to move
my
laptop, so i unplugged the power adaptop (while vista was still running)
and
attempted to move it. I instantly got a 'Bad_Pool_Caller' blue screen
error.
So after restarting without the the cable plugged in i got the same error.
I figured there must be a problem running on pure battery. So i plugged
the
cable back in and restared again...same error. I noticed the laptop does
not
recognise the cable is in, but still recharges the battery.

I started windows in safe mode with networking and here i am now, its
running fine in safe mode.

If anyone could help me it would be Greatly appreciated.

Hi,
That was it exactly. fixed in 5728.
I posted about it back in 5536. It was a bios issue with Dell e1505(Inspiron
6400) Intel Core duo laptops.
Seems there was a problem with Dell Bios A07 and A08, which was causing
a BSOD upon unplugging/undocking.
Jeff

"Hilmar" wrote in message
...
seems to be fixed with 5728. I have no problems anymore.
cool

"Jonolomu" wrote in message
...
Hey,

I recently installed Vista RC1 on my dell inspiron 6400 (Australian
Model)
Laptop. It has decent specs with and:

ATI x1400 video card,
core2 duo 2GHz processor,
1 gig ram

I installed Vista with the power cable plugged in and everything went
fine.
After it was installed still everything was fine. I then wanted to move
my
laptop, so i unplugged the power adaptop (while vista was still running)
and
attempted to move it. I instantly got a 'Bad_Pool_Caller' blue screen
error.
So after restarting without the the cable plugged in i got the same
error.
I figured there must be a problem running on pure battery. So i plugged
the
cable back in and restared again...same error. I noticed the laptop does
not
recognise the cable is in, but still recharges the battery.

I started windows in safe mode with networking and here i am now, its
running fine in safe mode.

If anyone could help me it would be Greatly appreciated.