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I'm getting the following error when attempting to print to pdf using Fine Print PDF Factory:

Instruction at "OX2603DE97". Referenced memory at "OXF816AFF8". The memory could not be read. Click on OK to terminate the program. Click Cancel to debug the program.

I have rebooted. Uninstalled and reinstalled the driver and the program that it is giving me the error with.

I have searched google and yahoo and didn't find much. I am running WIN 2000. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

You might want to take a look and make sure your memory timings and all settings in BIOS are correct to your type of memory.

To me this sounds like it cant read your memory for some reason. Whether it be your actual program your using, or your memory itself.

Try cleaning out your memory areas...get the dust out of there, and put 1 chip in at a time and try again..see if it actually is a bad memory chip. If this isnt. just post back here and we will see what else we can do.

Try running the system file checker to make sure your system files are original and undamaged. From the 'run' command type 'sfc.exe /scannow'. Make sure you have your windows cd in the cdrom drive when you do this. If that doesn't work, then see if there is an update for that program, or download it again to see if things improve. That error is normally caused by buggy or damaged software.

Well, I don't know what happened, but it is working now!? It'll probably happen again so I haven't got my hopes up! Thanks for the advice. If/when it happens again I will give your suggestions a try. Thanks.

it's just a normal run of the mill access violation. just see if there is an update from the vendor.

every process is assigned it's own virtual memory map and it's only allowed to use certain regions of it. simply put, the programmer was probably lazy with a calculation of sorts and it tried to read where there was no data or beyond the bounds of a buffer, that sort of thing. OXF816AFF8 is well beyond the program's normal bounds of virtual memory. it exists for that program but the program isn't allowed to directly access it because it's the 'kernel mode' portion which is where windows does stuff. i wouldn't worry about it being a system wide problem unless many applications start giving the exact same message all the time.

this might be of use to you.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=262490

I have been dealing with this error for months now..I tested ram, installed new ram, ran every cleaner I could find.. Never could get it to stop..I even reinstalled Windows 2000 & fully updated it etc.. I did all the proper things.. The error continued..then one day recently, (last week) it "went away"..
..I cannot figure out what I did or stopped doing using to cause this..
I think it was a setting or an app but am clueless asto which one.. I know this is not of any great help to anyone other than to illustrate how tricky a problem it might be. Mybe it was just a loose ram module..dunno.. but the problem has not occurred for a week now..but if it returns I will be in touch & post any discovery made . cheers... g..

if you think your memory is bad, it could also be a bad slot on the motherboard instead of your stick

also run memtest86 to see if your memory is bad.

Hi all,

As said filthy_mcnasty, it's pure software bug and checking your hardware will not help. I got this message when MS Word tried to save a document in the motherboard's PROM (or was it in the PCI chip) :-)

As was said above it most likely is due to a buffer overflow, or access to memory through an un-initialized pointer. Anyway, some part of the memory which wasn't allocated for the culprit application's usage.

Eric

hmmm. I wonder if there is a patch for it.

In any case, I switched to openoffice a long time ago. Never had anyproblems.

:hotbounce Finally, after all this time and effort... I feel so free! The memory error seems to have disappeared since getting rid of Norton's Internet Security, including Anti-Virus stuff. In fact, some other annoying little problems are gone too.