Referenced Memory Error

ok, gunny, i am a he. i was going to take the computer into a shop, but being a freelance journalist, i have not enough funds.

now, concerning the computer... it is indeed a genuine XP home disk. i have not installed any recent computer hardware and the installation completed succesfully. im not sure abot the missisg file being critical, but ill look into it, and i have not re-formatted. thiers alot of important files on that thing, and i dont wanna lose them.

so, im still in a rut. im going to try a couple of things on the computer that might be it, but ill get back to everyone.

A possible solution - worked for me

Hey fellas,
It seems this problem has been going on for quite some time, and although I have had this problem for a while, I finally got fed up with it and decided to try to fix it.

Situation:
I constantly get the error message when viewing a directory containing many multimedia files (notably videos).

Solution [that which worked for me]:
Ended task "wisptis.exe" from process list - it's the "Windows Ink Services Platform Tablet Input Subsystem" file. Obviously, deleting this file may prevent certain functionality depending on what you're running.

When you get the error message again, end the above task, and see if it fixes the issue. Post back the results, and if this IS the problem, we can then go from there.

Hope it helps others as it did me.

ok well I have had this problem shoot up recently on both of my PC's.
I have read all of this post.

first let me state my occurances and then I will move onto deductions and what other ppl have sed.

I get the same memory cannot be read error when closing IE alot, the address is the same for the IE.exe error which is 0x1001a584.

I also get this with other apps as well, ie adobe, svchost, paint shop pro.

now moving onto other ppls responses listed above.
ive ran scannow, msconfig, and my MBR is fine.
I have had this system running fine prior to SP2. on both of my machines these read errors only occured after SP2.
I have stuck ram stick(1 512 samsung origianl DDR333) in all 3 diff slots with no luck.
if it was a ram/mobo issue, i think the problems would be more Prevelent. this error occurs about 2 times a week.
I have alot of services turned off in the background. this has been the case ever since I installed OS 2 years ogo. these errors just started in the last few months.

Since this seems to affect win2k systems, I think its more software than hardware.
why?
lots of ppl on this thread had replaced all hardware with no luck in fixing.

my system specs
AMD 2600 @ 1.9Ghz 333FSB barton core
Shuttle AK39N
512MB 333Mhz samsung original
WinXP pro SP2
40GB Maxtor
160GB Western digital
52X optorite CD burner
12X optorite DVD burner
Zip 250
SB live
ATI 9600 128 8X
550W PS

Other ppl here have had this prob with many apps as I have.
other suggestions point to not enuff ram. My system is running pretty lean and I get the errors to, i dont think this is the cause.
I have went to manually setting the VM and no luck.
I dont have a sharing issue cause im the only account on this PC.

I am stumped by this as well. I removed all IE addons like google for example and still same errors.

my problem seems to occur only when closing applications.
hopefully this thread will find an answer for us all.

Squirrel: Have you cleared your pagefile?

Disable the pagefile, reboot, then re-enable it. Might be corruption within the pagefile.

I just disabled/reboot and re enabled the page file to what I had it set before.
1280-1538MB.

thanks for the suggestion ill let everyone know.
Im pretty sure I did this earlier and it had no luck(i cant remember).

Help Me Please!

Hey everyone, I need some help.

I have been running WinXP (SP2) for a while now and constantly have problems, but recently, I've been having HUGE problems. Let me bring u all up to date before I ask for help.

For about a week or so my pc has been "crashing" by this I mean if I leave it on the Welcome screen and walk away for a few hours the montior shuts down (the orange light comes on) and no matter what I do it won't come back UNLESS i reboot.

Sometimes when I'm actually using my pc the screen with blink off and come back on with a lot of vertical lines on the screen and freeze whatever program is running.

Tonight though I got a whole new issue. when i boot, the windows xp screen comes up, but then blinks before it gets to the welcome screen and come back on to reveal a black screen with a white mouse on the middle just hanging out. I can move the mouse, but it's useless b/.c there's nothing to movei t to. After about 10 mins this error message appears:

The Instruction at "0x75978dc1" referenced memory at "0x00000000" the memory could not be "read"

It also says: Click on OK to terminate or Cancel to debug

AND: "log onto windows: winlogon.exe - application error"

ANY IDEAS? I can't access my pc @ home, i have to go to the neighbours, but any help you could offer would be great!

You could e-mail me suggestions or post here.

Thanks
Wendy

wendy01

whats the make and model of your PC and how old is it.

found the solution to the memory problem

Try this gang.
I removed all of my spyware (spyguard and spyblaster) and
the problem disappeared. Now I only use spybot scanner once in a while.

Hi everyone,

I am really in need of your help. I have got this error quite some times: Application Error-"The instruction at "0x004058e1" referenced memory at "0x015dfd18". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program. Click on CANCEL to debug the program."

This error occurs frequently while I run a test software midway. Could you possibly suggest me some solutions? And how could I trace out the addresses "0x004058e1" and "0x015dfd18" ?

Thank you.

Possible answer

I had the same memory reference error @ "x" -memory cannot be read etc. as everyone else has documented .

We can now add windows server 2003 to the list of affected OS's..

The only recent major change i made was a corrupt installation of blackice firewall(tough to remove for me at least)-may have affected some system files.

My hunch after reviewing the posts here ,is that the issue
may involve graphical rendering -this would explain the
ie crashes ,the avi problems and the game problems .
This also coincides with the fact that the error popped up when I was using java apps ,firefox browser,or screensavers .

One way to test this theory might be for those severely afflicted with the problem, to boot up in safe mode and try to run the problem apps-if the apps run-then that definitely points to drivers or files that affect drivers-in my opinion.

I found that reverting to stock catalyst drivers for the ati card seems to have resolved the issue -at least for now

I was using the omega drivers for playing Counterstrike source-

However since this problem seems to affect ATI and Nvidia ,as well as AMD and Intel systems ,I wonder if the issue may be a bug in directx 9.0 c?

For those that want to be guinea pigs -here is some info
before you risk it:

http://www.computerhope.com/directx.htm#a10

hope this helps -

could this be the answer

Hi all, like everyone else here I had the same memory error problem when closing certain applications. I've tried everything here but to no avail. I then started to close down some processes in the task manager. I hit the jackpot when I closed matrox.powerdesk.pdesknet.exe. It’s the desktop manager for my parhelia graphics card. Hey presto, no more errors. I didn’t see how that could cause all my problems (by the way I was having probs installing loads of apps with install shield hanging etc) so I dug a little deeper. It seems it was Microsoft .net framework that was causing the problem and not SP2 like I had thought. I removed .net framework and now I have no more problems installing either. The only reason I stuck in on my pc was because matrox needed it to work its application. The end result is: I removed matrox desktop manager (which was managed my .net) to fix the memory error problems, I removed .net framwork to fix install shield problems. I hope this has helped a few of you out there

I have verified mnewton's solution, by logging out and then logging in as a different user with a new profile solved my problem.

Hello all. Have been reading over this thread and thought I would pop in with my problem :haha: I am getting "The instruction at "0x7c159fa0" refrenced memory at "0x0000c0ac". The memory could not me "read" When tryen to open up Atis tv wonder pro to watch some tv. Last night is when it started. First it happend when playen a 3d game just randomly it happend but only twice and I can now play that game fine. Then it did it when tryen to open up winamp so I reinstalled the latest version of winamp now thats fine. Now its doing it with my tv. I have reinstalled the drivers I have tried all those mentioned on this post including changing memory sticks around and all that. Currently I am running sfc /scannow to see if that helps hopefully it will. But yeah anyone can help of course its appreciated

Oh yeah my comp specs..bout forgot about putten em on here.
Athlon 1700+
nvidia gforce 5 ti4600
Machspeed viper v266b rev. 3.0 mother board
2 sticks 128megs each kingston pc2100 ram
audigy gamer sound card
maxtor 40gig 7200rpm hd
Windows xp Pro SP1

one more thing. Does anyone else have Microsoft visualbasics.net installed by any chance?

Fixed my "Referenced Memory Error"

:hotbounce I started having the referenced memory error only on a new weg page I was developing. The page had several links to pdf documents. Everything worked fine until the client asked if I could open the docement in a new window. This is simple so I made the change and a new window opened with the pdf document displayed. When I closed the window, I got the error. The is a very repeatable condition. For kicks, I replaced the pdf document with the MS Word file and did not have the referenced memory error problem.

My fix -
"Originally Posted by Sub-Conscious
i found a way to fix it on my machine!!!

it had been bugging me for months, every time i closed IE i used to 2 of those error boxes in a row, but the simple solution was to go into internet options, advanced, and uncheck the box called "enable third party browser extensions". now the error has disappeared. i dont know if that will work when other programs cause the error, but if its just IE, try that."

I unchecked the box for "enable third party browser extensions" like suggested above and the problem is gone. This can be found under TOOLS => INTERNET OPTIONS => ADVANCED in the brousing subsection.

My "guess" is that the problems described in the thread are caused by or related to BHO (Browser Help Objects). A good and scary description can be found at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/bho/
Turning off "enable third party extensions" disables the BHO's.

Go to http://www.definitivesolutions.com/ for a free program call BHO Demon that will show you which BHO's are installed and allow you to kill them.

Good Lock...

frustrated

Well ive read all the posts and tried just about everything.

-i cleaned the startup folder
-i installed Codestuff starter and took out everything i dont need
-i ran the sfc /scannow *about quarter of the way into the scannow i see a bsod for a fraction of a sec and the machine reboots...
-i installed the latest drivers for everything...

I get "0x012a17c0" referenced memory at "0x012a17c0" error when i try to play cs:source

Also getting more memory referencing errors when closing ie,firefox, and sundry other apps

I get BSOD's in game randomly it seems

check my profile for computer specs.

I just built this machine this week fresh xp pro sp2 install with all the critical updates.

Zip 5 to 6 minidumps and attach the zip file here. You can find the minidumps from the folder \windows\minidumps. I will study the minidumps and find out the root cause of the problem.

minidumps

here they are, all 4 dmp files... ty for ur help cpc

It is the hardware error at your AMD processor

BugCheck 9C, {4, 80545ff0, b2000000, 70f0f}
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x9C_IA32_AuthenticAMD
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 2
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 806d38df to 804f8925
SYMBOL_ON_RAW_STACK: 1
STACK_TEXT:
80545fc8 806d38df 0000009c 00000004 80545ff0 nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x1b
805460f4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 hal!HalpMcaExceptionHandler+0xdd

Here ya go

now what?

so a hardware error w/ my cpu.... any ways to fix this or is it RMA time?