htpatch error?

[Sharkman]

Just started happening.. Running XP professional SP2 all up to date with
virus checking, spyware stuff etc.. and this error just started happening on
startup:

c:\windows\htpatch.exe
NTVDM cpu has encountered an illegal instruction.
close or ignore

I close it and the system seems to function properly..

Googling tells me it has something to do with SiS multithreading but I have
no idea if my systems uses multithreading. It's an ASUS P4S533 MX.
Can anyone tell me what this is and how to fix\eliminate the error?
thanks
sharkman

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[Wesley Vogel]

See this about Hyper-Threading
Windows XP and Hyper-Threading
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810231

SiS - Welcome to Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation.
http://www.sis.com/

Result for : htpatch.exe
0-0 of 0 found.
http://www.sis.com/function/search.php?keyword=htpatch.exe&imageField.x=3&imageField.y=3

It would really surprise me that something related to Hyper-Threading was a
16-bit program.

NTVDM.EXE (NT Virtual DOS Machine) is used in conjuction with wow.exe to run
16-bit applications.

NTVDM CPU Has Encountered an Illegal Instruction
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245184

Entries in Config.nt or Autoexec.nt May Cause NTVDM Errors
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;156687

Run the System File Checker (sfc.exe)...
sfc /scannow checks the files in %windir%\System32 if any are screwed up
it replaces the screwed up file with a copy from
%windir%\System32\dllcache or the Windows installation source files.
Which in your case is probably the C:\I386 folder.

Click Start | Click Run | Paste this in the Run box...

sfc /scannow

Then click OK.

It should take a while to run.

If SFC.EXE did anything it will be in the Event Viewer.

Open the Event Viewer...
Start | Run | Type: eventvwr | Click OK |
Click System | Look at any Windows File Protection
entries

Also update your antvirus and anti-spyware applications and run full system
scans.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
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[Sharkman]

thanks wesley.
I ran the System File checker and looked at the event viewer. Nothing wrong
as far as I can tell. However, the htpatch error still occurs on startup..

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Antvirus and anti-spyware scans resulted in?

[[htpatch.exe patch which offers multi-threading support for GPU's on SiS
motherboards. This program is a non-essential system process, but should not
be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.]] Yours seems to be
causing problems, see about disabling it from starting.


SiS Support
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staff dedicated to end-user technical support. If you are having a problem
with any SiS-based product, please contact either the PC or board
manufacturers or the retailer of your product. ]]

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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