EXPLORER.exe crashin

[xeonzx86]

got a weird problem.........whenever i right click any file on explorer...or open any avi file explorer crashes....with somethin about "memory reference error"...any idead wat could be the prob

system config:
athlon 2000
A7N266-vm
512+256MB transcend memory
120 gb seagate(7200rpm)
Windows xp sp2

tried norton and avg both fr any viruses....
all xp updates downloaded and installed frm windows update site

 

[xeonzx86]

update:.........i have posted a screen shot of the error message on this link http://geocities.com/xeonzx86/error.jpg

and i am able to play games like NFS underground2 and quake3.....so i don't see any issues with RAM........

 

[Jeff7]

Usual tests:
Memtest
Prime95


And spyware apps:
Lavasoft Adaware
Spybot
CWShredder v2.13
Note, there are variants of CWS, may its authors rot in hell, that CWShredder is unable to remove. It's a very sophisicated strain of spyware, and I can see many ways in which it could get even worse, and I'm not a programmer, so I shudder to think what the scum who write it might come up with.

 

[Slikkster]

Read this very recent thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=32&threadid=1514912&enterthread=y

Problem turned out to be viruses. Very similar to your error.

 

[xeonzx86]

thanks dude.......it was an older version of divx codec which was creating this problem.........i guess sp2 and divx has some issues