Can anyone explain this error?

[Xeries]

Whenever I try to do anything in Sonar, the screen freezes up and says:

Error - Unhandled Exception
Exception code c0000005

It also gives dozens of numbers and letters after the program identification

And it gives an address in numbers, about two dozen of them.

This has happened to me dozens of times but Sonar used to work okay.

I also have many dropouts and stutters and stops.

My computer is up to the task with 3.33 ghz speed and 1.5 gigs of RAM.

I am at the end of my rope. Please help.

[mikemorgan]

Nobody's gonna be sure why, the question is "what to do?" I would try to go back to a recovery point in XP where things did work. You are dealing with a "fatal exception" which can just as easily be hardware or software related.
My first thought was over-taxed ram, but it sounds like you have plenty. How many cpu cycles are you pulling at idle?

[Xeries]

Originally Posted by mikemorgan

Nobody's gonna be sure why, the question is "what to do?" I would try to go back to a recovery point in XP where things did work. You are dealing with a "fatal exception" which can just as easily be hardware or software related.
My first thought was over-taxed ram, but it sounds like you have plenty. How many cpu cycles are you pulling at idle?

It's hard to say, Mike. It looks like just 1.2% at any given time until the dropouts happen. I've talked to Cakewalk today and we tried some stuff that might work. They traced the problem to a microsoft utility that uploaded itself and we deleted it and installed their latest and greatest. Plus we added another user ID which has a much cleaner startup menu.

I won't know until tomorrow if it works because I'm too burned out. If all else fails, they all recommend that I ditch everything and reinstall the OS - windows XP home edition. Thanks for your reply.

[moskus]

What Microsoft utility was this?

[Xeries]

Originally Posted by moskus

What Microsoft utility was this?

I think it was MS 80 or something. I'm not too savvy at this stuff. The utility that we removed was Microsoft c++2005, I think. The one we replaced it with had the same name, but was their latest upgrade.

[moskus]

Ah, the C++ library. Yeah, this can become corrupt from time to time...