R
Rakoth
Been having some trouble with my PC these last two days, and I'm hoping
someone can help with the last lingerig one.
Yesterday, once Windows XP (Home version0 had booted up and brought up the
desktop, I had a nasty error crop up: The instruction at "0x7c919c02"
referenced memory at "0xad166b84." The memory could not be "read." Ok to
terminate, cancel to debug. Clicking OK would leave my desktop background,
but all the icons and the taskbar would disappear for a few seconds,
reappear, and the erorr would just pop up again. Did a reboot and it went
away, and I figured Windows might need an update or two hit the updater,
grabbed all the important stuff as well as the optional (Including, unwisely,
an ATI Radeon 9600 thing, more on that shortly.) A reboot later, and the
error returned. The desktop would be frozen, I couldn't get at the Start
Menu while the error was up, but if I clicked OK and moved quick enough I
could get through the Start Menu to my browser (Firefox) and I managed to
navigate my way here. After trying a few things - Going into safe mode and
running Ad-Aware, Spy Sweeper, Ewido, and AVG AntiVirus, disabling a few
things in start-up, even trying a custom registry entry I saw here for a very
similar problem - and booting up normal to no avail, I tried turning off the
third-party plug-ins for IE as was mentioned in another thread with a similar
problem I'm not sure if it was that, or that and the other things, but -that
problem seemed to have stopped.
Unfortunately for me, it seemed like DirectX was corrupted, or my vid
drivers were, or something, because when I tried to start a game (EverQuest 2
in this case) it gave me a fatal error: EverQuest II has detected an
unrecoverable error and must shutdown. <verify>
E:\live\eq2\framework\core\devices\src\DirectX9RenderDevice.cpp (1059):
Failed to create D3D/device for RADEON 9600 SERIES.
Another game ended up saying something similar: graphic initilization
error, requires min. DirectX 9.0c version and the latest graphic card driver.
Now prior to these happenings, I had no problem running either game in
retrospect, I shouldn't have downloaded that updated mentioning something
that MS has no business toying with, but hindsight is always 20/20. The EQ2
error is particularly strange since the E: is my DVD-Rom drive. I have since
used the Add/Remove Programs utility to uninstall my drivers and DL the
latest one, DLing DirectX's latest version, and this doesn't seem to have
fixed the problem. I'm not sure if it's related, but I've had an even more
nasty and scary error crop when the blue Windows log-in screen should come
up: lsass.exe error, An Invalid HANDLE was specified. That's came up a few
times, but usually only after I installed the new driver for my card - After
giving the interior of my system a good spritzing with compressed air, I
haven't had it since, and aside from the 3D graphics not working, everything
SEEMS fine now.
Is there any suggestions to fix this graphics thing? The Radeon 9600 is, I
think, about the best card my PC could handle, as she's a bit of an older
beast from a few years back, so fishing for a new one is out, and System
Restore doesn't seem to want to revert to anything in this month (3 times
tried, 3 times denied.) I'm just hoping my poor ol' machine isn't on her
last legs.
someone can help with the last lingerig one.
Yesterday, once Windows XP (Home version0 had booted up and brought up the
desktop, I had a nasty error crop up: The instruction at "0x7c919c02"
referenced memory at "0xad166b84." The memory could not be "read." Ok to
terminate, cancel to debug. Clicking OK would leave my desktop background,
but all the icons and the taskbar would disappear for a few seconds,
reappear, and the erorr would just pop up again. Did a reboot and it went
away, and I figured Windows might need an update or two hit the updater,
grabbed all the important stuff as well as the optional (Including, unwisely,
an ATI Radeon 9600 thing, more on that shortly.) A reboot later, and the
error returned. The desktop would be frozen, I couldn't get at the Start
Menu while the error was up, but if I clicked OK and moved quick enough I
could get through the Start Menu to my browser (Firefox) and I managed to
navigate my way here. After trying a few things - Going into safe mode and
running Ad-Aware, Spy Sweeper, Ewido, and AVG AntiVirus, disabling a few
things in start-up, even trying a custom registry entry I saw here for a very
similar problem - and booting up normal to no avail, I tried turning off the
third-party plug-ins for IE as was mentioned in another thread with a similar
problem I'm not sure if it was that, or that and the other things, but -that
problem seemed to have stopped.
Unfortunately for me, it seemed like DirectX was corrupted, or my vid
drivers were, or something, because when I tried to start a game (EverQuest 2
in this case) it gave me a fatal error: EverQuest II has detected an
unrecoverable error and must shutdown. <verify>
E:\live\eq2\framework\core\devices\src\DirectX9RenderDevice.cpp (1059):
Failed to create D3D/device for RADEON 9600 SERIES.
Another game ended up saying something similar: graphic initilization
error, requires min. DirectX 9.0c version and the latest graphic card driver.
Now prior to these happenings, I had no problem running either game in
retrospect, I shouldn't have downloaded that updated mentioning something
that MS has no business toying with, but hindsight is always 20/20. The EQ2
error is particularly strange since the E: is my DVD-Rom drive. I have since
used the Add/Remove Programs utility to uninstall my drivers and DL the
latest one, DLing DirectX's latest version, and this doesn't seem to have
fixed the problem. I'm not sure if it's related, but I've had an even more
nasty and scary error crop when the blue Windows log-in screen should come
up: lsass.exe error, An Invalid HANDLE was specified. That's came up a few
times, but usually only after I installed the new driver for my card - After
giving the interior of my system a good spritzing with compressed air, I
haven't had it since, and aside from the 3D graphics not working, everything
SEEMS fine now.
Is there any suggestions to fix this graphics thing? The Radeon 9600 is, I
think, about the best card my PC could handle, as she's a bit of an older
beast from a few years back, so fishing for a new one is out, and System
Restore doesn't seem to want to revert to anything in this month (3 times
tried, 3 times denied.) I'm just hoping my poor ol' machine isn't on her
last legs.