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| Thread ID: 67889 | 2006-04-09 07:49:00 | Mystifying 'svchost.exe' problem | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 445168 | 2006-04-09 07:49:00 | Hi All Running Win XP Pro with SP2 Creative Audigy 2 Soundcard P4 3.0GHz CPU Gigabyte motherboard GA8IK-1100 Leadtek 6600GT VGA card 1.5GB RAM Continually getting the following error message box appearing TWICE every time I boot up my PC: svchost.exe -- Application error. The instruction at :0x745f2780" referenced memory "0x00000000". The file could not be 'read'. Click OK to debug the programme or Cancel to terminate I can click on cancel to make it go away (Clicking on OKAY doesn't do anything!). However after that applications such as Outlook/IE/Word etc won't open and my Audigy 2 soundcard doesn't show up under Control Panel/Sounds & Audio Devices. Its driving me nuts!! Have searched various help forums/googled etc and tried the following solutions: # Have checked MSConfig and put all settings back on default/orih=ginal as had some services disabled at startup # Changed RAM timing from 3 to 2.5 in BIOS # Switched RAM modules around on motherboard # Reinstalled soundcard drivers AND still no success!!!! Any suggestions please -- tearing my hair out in frustration. Thanks in advance C. Ali (Paul) |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 445169 | 2006-04-09 08:20:00 | This might or might not help. toddh.net Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 445170 | 2006-04-09 09:00:00 | Cheers for that suggestion Trev but unfortunately I've been there and done that -- as a result of that actual web page too actually. Thanks for the helpful suggestion though? Anyone else with ideas/suggestions as starting to develop a really healthy dose of PC rage! :mad: |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 445171 | 2006-04-09 09:50:00 | Try sfc (www.updatexp.com) ? | gibler (49) | ||
| 445172 | 2006-04-09 10:00:00 | Geez Should've thought of that! Will try it now and let you know. Cheers Gibler |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 445173 | 2006-04-10 09:01:00 | Well that didn't work out too well Gibler -- had to edit registry to get SFC scannow to work and when I rebooted afterwards, it kept giving me the BSOD part-way through boot up and restarted again so I just gave in and reformatted the damn thing! | Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 445174 | 2006-04-10 21:31:00 | Well that didn't work out too well Gibler -- had to edit registry to get SFC scannow to work and when I rebooted afterwards, it kept giving me the BSOD part-way through boot up and restarted again so I just gave in and reformatted the damn thing! Ek, what a shame. A repair install (www.michaelstevenstech.com) could have been easier. I assume you backed up your data first. Maybe it was a windows update that had gone bad. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 445175 | 2006-04-11 08:27:00 | If you have a SP2 update CD, you could simply reinstall SP2. That should fix any corrupted files. Some say you'll need to d/l all MS security installs etc but I've never had to do that. | braindead (1685) | ||
| 445176 | 2006-09-04 09:27:00 | I had the same problem . Fixed it and now its back . . The instruction at "0x745f2780" refernced memory at "0x00000000000000" The memory could not be read . This is now back after msi . dll crashed . . . . Windows xp is a royal pain . Or is this MS trying to make it fall down more before the launch of vista . . . . They done something similar with office 2000 . 1 Update and nothing works as well as it used to . If you want a solution to this try open office, its free and does the job just as well . Anywayzzz a fix for the svchost error . I turned off (dissabled from services) a few things like server and nortons and deleted all software on boot/start up of my machine via some small tools and all was fine . Also removed IE plugs installed like yahoo and other things . I never use IE anyway always Fire Fox . Shame windows is IE . . . Once stable and standing on its new unstable xp legs I then re-activated nortons and all was fine until now . So I will repeat the steps . |
Darcey (10175) | ||
| 445177 | 2006-09-04 12:57:00 | Have you tried this thread and advice :- www.infohq.com Seems to have fixed problem for a number of people |
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