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by pjsnyder7082

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I have an emachine running Windows XP Home that I'm having trouble running some programs. I get an Access Violation Error followed by a hexicdecimal followed by memory referenced 0xffffffff. I reinstalled the operating system, which didn't help. Now I'm having trouble with the DVD player not reading CDs or DVDs or runs so slowly that it's not practical.

I can't run Memtest 86 on it because of the DVD player problem.

Is this 2 separate problems do you think or is the motherboard starting to die?

pj snyder

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by mjd420nova

How much memory is the diags say is installed?? If it's less than you know is installed then you might have a bad memory card or intermittent connector.

by pjsnyder7082

I couldn't run the diag because it requires a floppy drive, which this computer doesn't have, or a CD/DVD player, which isn't running well enough to run a diag.

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