Re: "Memory Could Not Be Written" - Explorer.exe & Winlogon

From: Spinner (spinner_at_web.cor)
Date: 01/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:15:59 -0500

I had the same problem.
It turned out to be Spybot search and destroy that was causing the problem.
I turned off the immmunize option and the problem stopped, turned it back on
and the problem reappeared, so left it off and have not had a problem since.

"John Corson" <john@corson.org> wrote in message
news:ALoDb.10473$F22.1901@lakeread02...
> At random times when trying to open a folder (directory),
> I receive the following popup: "Application Error: The
> instruction at "0x77f57ec4" referenced memory
> at "0x00000067". The memory could not be "written".
> A similar popup appears reading: "Application Error : The
> exception unknown software exception (0xc015000f) occurred
> in the application at location 0x77f6fca7."
>
> When going to the event properties in the Administrative
> Tools, I see under application events that the following
> notation appears: "The shell stopped unexpectedly and
> explorer.exe was restarted." It is a winlogon event with
> event number 1002.
>
> When this error occurs I have to click as many as three
> popup notices. Following that, all icons on the desktop
> disappear for a few seconds, the screen is refreshed,
> icons re-appear and most applications running in the
> background (anti-virus, etc) do not appear in the toolbar
> until logging off and back on.
>
> I have gone back to several different points in system
> restore, uninstalled various software that I thought could
> be the cultrate, etc. I am suspecting one major area that
> I haven't tried -- Changing out memory. I recently
> upgraded to ABIT KD-7 RAID m/b with Athlon XP2700+ CPU;
> 2048 mb DDR PC2700 ECC non buffered RAM. Would adding an
> extra wait from the cycle between memory and CPU help?
> I.e using Registered ECC RAM? Before I go to the added
> EXPENSE of getting registered RAM I would like to have
> confirmation.
>
> I have tried swapping out memory modules, going down to
> 1024, etc. Currently I have 4 "sticks" of 512 each. One
> person suggested having only 1 stick, no matter whether it
> is buffered, registered, non buffered, non parity, etc.
> He says to never use more than 1 module, yet I have always
> used more than one on different systems and have never had
> this issue.
>
> Please help!
>
> ---John Corson---
>
>