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DSOUND.DLL, WSOCK32.DLL, ILLEGAL OPERATI

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by bytj 1 view

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I posted this question two days ago. Since that question is not very clear. I'd like to repost it, and hope to get some helpful information from you.

I have a workstation which is not working properly these days. First of all, when I reboot the machine, I could no longer find the NT logon dialog screen. Once the windows started, the first error message is "DSOUND.DLL" can not start." I can just click it to go on.

If I go on to run some of the programs, it would display the error message There is not enough memory to start WSOCK32.DLL. Quit some programs, and then try again."

Sometimes, I can go on by clicking it to run a program. Sometimes, It gave the error message "This program has performed an illegal operation." And the program will close if I click it.

The memory is not a problem with this workstation as I check. How to fix it?

Look foward to your reply.

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by charley

dsound is a driectX component, so I would wonder what service pack you have installed and what version of DirectX is installed. If it is blowing up with wsock32, and I can't imagine why they would, since wsock32 is part of your TCP/IP stack, then Ican see where you could have problems with the rest of the system, to include not getting the login box.

My first instinct here is to do a complete, clean install from scratch. If you can't/won't do that, then I would re-apply service packs 3 through 5 in order. Then I would reinstall the drivers for the sound card. Finally, reinstall DirectX.

by sales

sounds like a virus to me , probly the mtx virus. get to a dos prompt . type "cd \windows" then type this "attrib -r -a -s -h mtx_.exe" if it says "file not found" you dont have mtx, still there are others that will infect .dll files. UPDATE your virus scan then run it. -Doug (BizProz)

by bytj

This answer helps me though the exact virus name is w95.hybris.gen. There may be some other virus b/c it corrupts many .dll files. I just re-installed the workstation, and I found that virus.

by adam in nc

If this problem occured after you installed new software, remove the software.

If not:
reinstall NT and the latest service pack 6a

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