printer not present causes fatal read error!
Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 9:05 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jeremy
(10 messages posted)
I thought this was worth reposting due to the high "annoyance" factor:
I experienced several strange problems in Windows 2000, SP-3 today,
none of which I have had before (well, recently):
1) I received a mesg. about the system log being corrupt. I disabled
the Event Viewer, rebooted and deleted my logs. Then I restarted
Event Viewer. This seemed to correct the problem, as I am now
getting logs from Applications, etc.
2) "netstat -a" stopped working completely. It shows *nothing* under
any of
the columns. I don't know how to correct this.
3) My editor of choice, Ultra Edit 32, has developed several strange
problems:
a) Always shows the Ultra Edit File Associations box when loading
even when
I click "Don't Show This Again."
b) About 3-5 seconds after exiting, a dialog shows:
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Application popup: UEDIT32.EXE - Application Error :
The
instruction at
"0x6061fdc3" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
The memory
could not be
"read".
Click on OK to terminate the program
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4) Internet Explorer 6 seems to freeze very frequently, especially
when dealing
with multiple text boxes. I have had a lot of this behavior in
the past,
but recent updates seemed to have fixed it (apparently not!).
5) Microsoft Visio 2000 has stopped working completely with the error
mesg.:
Faulting application visio.exe, version 10.0.525.4, faulting
module
hpzntp04.dll, version 2.80.0.0, fault address 0x0001fdc3.
6) Photoshop 5.5 has stopped working with a similar error mesg. as
the Ultra
Edit one:
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The instruction at "0x6061fdc3" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
The
memory could not be "read".
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I have installed no service packs, hot fixes *or* drivers in the last
week, I swear, and both Visio and Ultra Edit had been running
perfectly.
[snip!]
So I solved this today.
The network print server, Windows SE with print sharing, was turned off. Somehow
this was causing these applications to crash fatally (Word also, though this wasn't
in the original posting).
I'm not sure if the same result would have occurred had the print server been running
Windows 2000 with full TCP/IP instead of NetBIOS.
I am really curious if anyone has an idea why the fact that the print server was
off would cause fatal "read" protection errors, crashing several programs that use
the print driver, rather than erroring "gracefully", loading the application and
showing a dialog indicating that the installed printer was in fact not present.
Basically, I'm wondering if this is the fault of Windows or the given applications.
Given the number and variety of different crashing applications, I'm going to blame
this one on Windows.
IE 6 still crashes like crazy, especially when I tab between text boxes. I *loathe*
that browser and have tried to switch to Mozilla. The nice integrated file browser
aspect of IE makes it hard to avoid though. Oh, well, at least my applications aren't
crashing anymore.
Cheers,
Jeremy McCormick
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