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Win2K Pro, The memory could not be read

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by shanghai sam

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I have installed a computer with Windows 2000 Professional and have installed the Service Pack 2. After usage of couple of days, an error message appear :

Explorer.EXE - Application Error

The instruction at "0x100179f9" referenced memory at "0x00000030". The memory could not be "read".
Click on OK to terminate the program.
Click on CANCEL to debug the program.

Question :
Does anyone have an idea of what cause the error ?
What are the solutions and\or the workaround ?

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by thechas

Have you tried swapping out the RAM?

It may just be infant failure of one of the RAM chips.

by jmarraffino

After you swap out the ram as in the previous answer, if you still get errors from explorer I would just wipe the disk and start clean. Could be nothing more than a bad install.

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