very strange problem...

crowl

Since last week I have been having this very strange problem. Whenever I star programs of any sort I get an error message like '(program opened) has caused an error in (name of file.exe or whatever) (program opened) will now close. If you continue to experience this problem try restarting your computer.'
T first I thought it was just a problem with some games for example Call of Duty(when I click join a game in mp) and Championship Manager03/04 (when i start it up) but now it has happened in QuickTime when I tried to start it. All these things have worked before and I have no idea what has happened. It all started when I reinstalled win xp pro on the system it was working fine until the 30 day activation period ended and it asked for an activation key. I put it in but it was not accepted so I searched the web for a program to disable the activation and found one that seemed to do the trick. When i tried to run call of duty and another program called All Seeing Eye(also worked fine before) neither worked. I thought the crack program had messed it up but the problem had been there before I had downloaded the crack which made me think that when teh activitaion thingy had come up it had disabled programs or something. To be sure I decided to install windows ME. After reformatting the hdd, loading up ME and installing drivers and stuff I was annoyed to find the problem was still there. I have run out of ideas at this point.
My system is an oldish Dell Dimension 8100 with a p4 1.5ghz, radeon 9600, 384mb of rambus ram, 40 gb hdd.

joePC

OK sound like a software problem, if the same is happening in both XP Pro & ME, there must be something wrong somewhere is the software your installing warz, does this error start after you install a particular program. It sounds like a problem caused by either a driver conflict or a software error. I would reinstall XP Pro, PM me for a serial, then install only licenced software to begin with and see if your getting the same error.

Thanks joePC

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by joePC
OK sound like a software problem, if the same is happening in both XP Pro & ME, .....

This could point to a hardware problem like bad ram either.

kaimera

or worst...memory controller gone kaput == new mobo.

happened to me. pc would keep bsod-ing on anything really.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by Kaimera
or worst...memory controller gone kaput == new mobo.

happened to me. pc would keep bsod-ing on anything really.

Now that would be very rare I'd imagine.