Access Violation

mottlee · #1 May 10th, 2005, 03:40 PM

I am getting an access violation 004A478 in Mod SE4EXE Read address FFFFFF...I think I had this before but I have had to wipe my drive and was W/O SE for about 6 months can use any help.

Thanks

Suicide Junkie · #2 May 10th, 2005, 03:53 PM

While Aaron might be able to make some use of that, we do not have the source code to work from.

Please describe what you did to cause it.

mottlee · #3 May 10th, 2005, 04:21 PM

Happens from time to time, some times I go to "Look" at a ship and I click and nothing, not new window nothing then after a few sec. (apx 15) I will get the pop up

Suicide Junkie · #4 May 10th, 2005, 04:32 PM

Do you have your system set to turn off your harddrives after X minutes? That would explain the delay as they spin up.

What about Hardware & OS?
Have you done a scandisk/defrag lately?

Have you tried dusting off your RAM, or pulling it out and reseating it to make sure you have good contact?

mottlee · #5 May 10th, 2005, 04:56 PM

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Suicide Junkie said:
Do you have your system set to turn off your harddrives after X minutes? That would explain the delay as they spin up.

NO

What about Hardware & OS?

HARDWARE??? OS is WIN ME
Have you done a scandisk/defrag lately?

DAILY (set to auto)

Have you tried dusting off your RAM, or pulling it out and reseating it to make sure you have good contact?

WILL TRY THAT

Suicide Junkie · #6 May 10th, 2005, 05:10 PM

Win ME, eh? I reccommend upgrading to 98 when you have a chance.

Daily defrag is almost certainly too much. Drives do have a limited lifetime, and grinding away day in and day out is not good.
Try monthly, or even annually depending on how much use and the size/free space on the drive.

Personally, I defrag in the "never" category. My files get sorted when I copy them to a bigger drive.

Atrocities · #7 May 10th, 2005, 08:35 PM

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mottlee said:
I am getting an access violation 004A478 in Mod SE4EXE Read address FFFFFF...I think I had this before but I have had to wipe my drive and was W/O SE for about 6 months can use any help.

Thanks

If it is happening during game turn, try this, put all of the players on manual and run the turns for them. This should clear up the AVE.

NullAshton · #8 May 11th, 2005, 08:38 AM

I loathe windows millenium... Had to reformat and install it on a computer, and was nearly impossible to get all the drivers and stuff back on.

El_Phil · #9 May 11th, 2005, 09:01 AM

Didn't have any real problems with ME, still prefer 98SE, but ME didn't seem any worse. Bit more reliable in normal operation but the crashes were worse. Totally subjective mind.

Gandalf Parker · #10 May 11th, 2005, 09:39 AM

I switched ME for XP. But I had alot of old DOS games and such that I wanted to run which ME didnt seem to like, and I didnt feel like moving up to a Win2k server.