ATI remote wonder (was: How to determine cause of rundll access violation)

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Joe

Thanks for the response.

To re-cap:

This is a W2k new install (fully updated) with Radeon 7500 video card
with lots of bells / whistles and with all associated software and
drivers loaded / updated.

I get the following message just after the desktop is up and running:

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rundll32.exe - Application Error

The instruction at "0x100155b0" referenced memory at "0x00e10000".
The memory could not be "read".
Click OK to terminate the program
Click Cancel to debug the program
-------------

(click cancel, get this message):

--------------
Program Error

(!) rundll32.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
An error log is being created. [ok]
--------------

Dr. Watson error entry tells me nothing useful.

So I deactivate the following in the registry (one at a time):

Desk95.exe (nope)
soundman.exe (nope)
atiptaxx.exe (nope)
pronomgr.exe (nope)
mobsync.exe /login (nope)
ctfmon.exe (nope)
launchpd.exe (nope)
atirw.exe (yes!)

(atirw.exe dated 08-12-03, version 2.0.0.4)
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Ok, I plug in the USB receiver for the ATI remote control (for the
first time). I get a message saying the system found a USB receiver.
Did not ask me to help it find any software or files. Message window
goes away. I restart the computer, still get same error. Haven't
tried the remote control to see if it works.

Have done a few searches on ATI and Microsoft web sites to see if
there are any known issues with ATI remote wonder / atirw.exe. Can't
find any.

Have been looking at this web site for info (nothing obvious):
http://remotew.free.fr/

Will try looking through / posting to relavent ATI news groups. If
you know what the issue is, please post here.

Other questions:

- Is there a W2K equivalent to msconfig (as on win-98)?

- File search box (start-search-files/folders) is not a drop-down box
(ie no history) ??? Any way to remedy this?
 
I believe the issue is that the bells and whistles of your video card are not compatible with Windows 2000. When you installed the drivers were their drivers specific to Windows 2000 for the card as well as the drivers for the bells and whistles were they Windows 2000 compliant?

What is happening here is that rundll32.exe has as an argument that it is acting upon. Might be a dll. Then that dll is trying to access a memory location that it has no business trying to access. That means the file that is being called is likely NOT Windows 2000 compatible.

If you can find where this call is being made likely in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
and prohibit that from starting at boot you will likely remove this error. The other thing you can do is put /bootlog in boot.ini at the end of the path to the system you boot into and read ntbtlog.txt in C:\WINNT and look for "failure" or "error" w/o the quotes.

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George Hester
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Joe said:
Thanks for the response.

To re-cap:

This is a W2k new install (fully updated) with Radeon 7500 video card
with lots of bells / whistles and with all associated software and
drivers loaded / updated.

I get the following message just after the desktop is up and running:

-------------
rundll32.exe - Application Error

The instruction at "0x100155b0" referenced memory at "0x00e10000".
The memory could not be "read".
Click OK to terminate the program
Click Cancel to debug the program
-------------

(click cancel, get this message):

--------------
Program Error

(!) rundll32.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
An error log is being created. [ok]
--------------

Dr. Watson error entry tells me nothing useful.

So I deactivate the following in the registry (one at a time):

Desk95.exe (nope)
soundman.exe (nope)
atiptaxx.exe (nope)
pronomgr.exe (nope)
mobsync.exe /login (nope)
ctfmon.exe (nope)
launchpd.exe (nope)
atirw.exe (yes!)

(atirw.exe dated 08-12-03, version 2.0.0.4)
----------------

Ok, I plug in the USB receiver for the ATI remote control (for the
first time). I get a message saying the system found a USB receiver.
Did not ask me to help it find any software or files. Message window
goes away. I restart the computer, still get same error. Haven't
tried the remote control to see if it works.

Have done a few searches on ATI and Microsoft web sites to see if
there are any known issues with ATI remote wonder / atirw.exe. Can't
find any.

Have been looking at this web site for info (nothing obvious):
http://remotew.free.fr/

Will try looking through / posting to relavent ATI news groups. If
you know what the issue is, please post here.

Other questions:

- Is there a W2K equivalent to msconfig (as on win-98)?

- File search box (start-search-files/folders) is not a drop-down box
(ie no history) ??? Any way to remedy this?
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