On 3 Aug 99, at 13:21, Ken & Barbie wrote:

> Hello, I'm running Win98 on a Abit tx mainboard, Intel 233mmx,
> 64mb pc100 ram. The system frequently crashes when I'm
> shutting down a program. The same 2 errors seem to generate
> each time with different programs. I'm running Dr. Watson  in the
> task bar with all the latest drivers installed for the hardware.
> The system is about 3 months new, but has ran flaky from the start.
>
> Dr. Watson results:
> 1)Win32 Kernel core component *attempted to read from memory that does not
> exist.  It may be using an uninitialized variable, or it may be attempting
> to access memory after having freed it.
>
> 2)System APIs for Multimedia *attempted to use a null data pointer variable.
>
> * = general error's
>
> Does this sound more like a physical memory problem as opposed
> to a software problem? Memory vender say's software, I think otherwise
> and could use some advice from the list scholars on your thoughts.

  It sounds to me like a buggy, corrupted, or incorrect sound card driver.
What sound card is in the machine?


David G

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