Blue screen of death when I try to enable media shring with wmp 11

I'm trying to share media from my pc to my xbox 360. They're both connected
to my router via ethernet cables. I installed wmp 11 as instructed, and have
tried several times to enable media sharing. Sometimes the xbox 360 shows
up, sometimes not. Always, though, I get the blue screen of death saying xp
was stopped because of BAD_POOL_HEADER. It mentions that new hardware may be
improperly installed, but I haven't installed any new hardware, other than
some RAM a couple of months ago. There is an error message that says stop:
0x00000019 and then a bunch of numbers like that in parentheses that change
every time the error occurs. I've had no problems with this computer until I
installed wmp 11. I'm running xp home edition sp3 on a Dell dimension 4600.
please tell me someone knows what the problem is.

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:11:01 -0800, rickermortis
> <> wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to share media from my pc to my xbox 360. They're both connected
> >to my router via ethernet cables. I installed wmp 11 as instructed, and have
> >tried several times to enable media sharing. Sometimes the xbox 360 shows
> >up, sometimes not. Always, though, I get the blue screen of death saying xp
> >was stopped because of BAD_POOL_HEADER. It mentions that new hardware may be
> >improperly installed, but I haven't installed any new hardware, other than
> >some RAM a couple of months ago. There is an error message that says stop:
> >0x00000019 and then a bunch of numbers like that in parentheses that change
> >every time the error occurs. I've had no problems with this computer until I
> >installed wmp 11. I'm running xp home edition sp3 on a Dell dimension 4600.
> >please tell me someone knows what the problem is.
>
> I'd first try heading to windows update and downloading all recent
> updates. BSODs are related to bugs in hardware drivers, so usually
> that'd be some defective driver software like Network card, Sound
> card, video card, CPU driver or something similar.
>
> To troubleshoot it, try disabling or unplugging all connected
> hardware, then adding it back one device at a time until you can repro
> the crash (painful, but necessary)
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
> .
> Thank Neil, I'll try that and post back when I find the defective driver.