• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

should I worry, getting 'memory could not be "read" ' errors.

K

kef7

Diamond Member
On Sunday I switched vid cards. Took out my radeon 8500, ran regclean and followed other advice from rage3d on ati driver removal and then added an 8500 AIW128 card. I used the most recent drivers from the ATI website and followed the install instructions.

I cannot remember after what software installation this took place (since you have to install 5 different items with the AIW card) but after two of them I got error that said something like this:

'The instruction at "0x771c741a" referenced memory at "0x0016359B". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate program.' (I think the program that was running was something like IKERNEL.EXE)

Both times I got this error it was just after installing a part of the AIW software package (pretty sure it was after installing the dvd player (4th thing I installed) or the multimedia center (5th item).

Now I'm getting this same type of error with MSMSGS.EXE right after the computer boots up. I have since disabled windows messager from running on startup so I hope that cures that.

Long story short: is the error about memory not being "read" something to worry about?

other info: running XP pro, 512 of ram, P3 900, DirectX9.
 
It doesn't seem to be a hardware problem....so there's nothing to worry 'bout there....

It is a software problem, nevertheless....
 
I also forgot to mention that outlook takes a long time to open and uses up 100% of CPU; actually I didn't have the patience to wait and see if it ever opened and used task manager to shut it down and go back into outlook in safemode which takes at least 2 minutes to open then.
 
U sure there isn't a virus on?

Try reformatting ur harddrive if it isn't too much of a problem to do so....It's always nice to have a clean fresh PC...

And if that option is not available to you, then you'll have to manually hunt down the program that's hogging ur CPU...

Check in task manager and try killing an app or two to see if there are any improvements in performance....

Look at ur config.sys file startup in your registry, etc and reduce the amount of programs starting up to the bare minimum....

Actually, you could try booting in safe mode and see if it runs properly...
 
Looks like svchost.exe may be the culprit causing outlook to open so slow.

Another weird thing related to the radeon AIW 8500 128 is that the guideplus program downloads eexxtreemmmely slow. Takes minutes to download a 5k file!?! I can't even run the guideplus update to see if that helps. BTW guideplus works fine on my other computer.

 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top