Illegal Memory Reference

[Guest]

I'm getting the following error when I try to startup my (networked) Win2000
PC.

After login, the system states:
"Loading personal settings"
"Applying personal settings"

An error message then appears:
....Explorer.exe...
Instruction at 0x715101e1 referenced memory location at "0x00000000". The
memory could not be read.

The machine then just sits there, doing nothing, until you switch it off.

I've tried rebooting in safe mode, and am allowed to start up the Visual
Studio 2003 debugger. This then spawns the same memory reference error, but
from instruction at 0x5004ed49.

Can anybody suggest what is wrong?

Many thanks for any help...

 

[philo]

I'm getting the following error when I try to startup my (networked)
Win2000
PC.

After login, the system states:
"Loading personal settings"
"Applying personal settings"

An error message then appears:
...Explorer.exe...
Instruction at 0x715101e1 referenced memory location at "0x00000000". The
memory could not be read.

The machine then just sits there, doing nothing, until you switch it off.

I've tried rebooting in safe mode, and am allowed to start up the Visual
Studio 2003 debugger. This then spawns the same memory reference error,
but
from instruction at 0x5004ed49.

Can anybody suggest what is wrong?

Many thanks for any help...

--

very possibly a memory problem...
run a ram test.
you can make a boot floppy on another machine,
see this:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp