Error when running any apps, memory prob? virus?

[fasn8n]

Okay, here's the error I get.

"Instruction at 0x77fcc39e referenced memory at 0x13017800. The memory could not be 'written'"

Whenever I'm running any applications I would get that. Its actually not my PC i'm just helping fix the problem, but the owner said it would restart after that error, but when I messed w/it it didnt restart. I guess I'm good like that, haha, j/k.

Any ideas?

 

[bcastner]

If this error is thrown for a number of applications, this newsgroup article by Paraweswaran is suggestive:

From the newsgroups:
These kind of issues are possible if the files are residing in a FAT filesystem and after an upgrade with the file system as NTFS. Try the following: move the files to another NT machine with NTFS/FAT partition - open them and save them - then try to open in the upgraded system. Please let me know the results.

Regards,
Jagadeesh Parameswaran,
Microsoft.

 

[h5n1]

looks like memory problem.....try to swap out the ram or remove each and every one of them and test them....

 

[bcastner]

Generally, this error has nothing to do with a hard RAM problem. It in Win9x was called a General Protection Fault. The application is attempting to write to a memory location it does not own.