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[Guest]

I keep getting the following message for the SVCHOSt.exe program.
"Instruction at 0x009996bc referenced memory location 0x00000000. Could not
be written" Does anybody have any thoughts on this type of an error? Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hi there,

As far as I know SVCHOST.exe is used for executing processes from DLLs and
could be used by virtually any program on your system.

When does the error occur?
Does the error occur when you're in safe mode?

If the problem has only occurred recently you may want to carry out a system
restore, this is done by booting into safe mode and when prompted choose the
option to restore your computer to a previous state. This will allow you to
select a date when the computer successfully booted up, and hopefully when
the problems weren't occurring. Doesn't always resolve the problem, but if
it's an install / uninstall problem then it's always a good place to start.

Has your anti-virus / spyware program recently cleaned something from your
computer for you? In the past I've experienced similar errors where the
anti-virus / spyware software has removed part of an infection but left
traces of it still in the system.

If it doesn't happen in safe-mode I suggest you check the start-up
configuration of your machine, use the following:

START > Run...
type 'msconfig'
Choose the startup tab

Check through the list of programs running on system startup and check if
any unwanted programs / process are being started that shouldn't be running
on your computer.

I hope these suggestions help... the second one may be a little too
technical, but if you know what you're doing, or are willing to have a look
into the system settings then it's another avenue to explore.

- Kurt

 

[Stan Brown]

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:37:01 -0800 from profz

I keep getting the following message for the SVCHOSt.exe program.
"Instruction at 0x009996bc referenced memory location 0x00000000. Could not
be written" Does anybody have any thoughts on this type of an error? Thanks

In addition to Kurt Farrar's excellent suggestions, I recommend you
test your computer's memory. I started getting error messages like
yours, out of the blue, and it turned out to be a bad RAM chip.

The free tester I used is at www.memtest.org (recommended by Malke in
one of these Windows XP newsgroups). You need to download a small
program from that site and burn it to a CD or floppy.

Since your own computer is suspect, ask to use a friend's or
colleague's computer to download and burn. It will be very quick.
You'll probably need third-party software to do this, as the CD or
floppy needs to be bootable and XP's native software can't create a
bootable CD. (I'm not sure about the bootable floppy ption, as my
computer has no floppy drive.) Nero can do this; probably Roxio can
also. I use the free software at <http://www.cdburnerxp.se/>.