Illegal operation errors

[GenoCyde]

Kazaa lite was working great,untill all of a sudden I was getting illegal operation errors.

I uninstalled,and reinstalled klite,but same problem.

here is the error message

KAZAALITE caused an invalid page fault in
module KAZAALITE.KPP at 0167:0053803c.

Then its a bunch of coding.

My system specs
amd 1900+,512 sdram,win 98 se.

Please help!

[Theinfamousone]

Reinstall Kazaalite, then run a virus scan if you're still having problems.

[Winphuk]

In that situation, if you reinstalling the application doesn't work. I would try a few things. In this order:

a) scandisk for errors

b) defrag

c) run a repair install of Windows (not neccesarily clean install)

d) upgrade the OS (or clean reinstall 98)

e) if all of that fails and your invalid page fault number stays the same, you might have a faulty stick of RAM. Have you been changing the size of your virtual memory?

[phalkon30]

Woah, before we go plunging head first into windows, lets take a look at kazaa

When you say you uninstalled, and reinstalled, I'm assuming you didn't do a clean install, here is what I would try first

1). Back up all downloaded files, and partially downloaded .dat files

2). Uninstall kazaa lite completely through the ad/remove programs thing in the control panel

3). Delete the programs folder (usually C:\Program Files\Kazaa Lite)

4). Clean all traces of K-Lite from the registry using a program like RegCleaner (http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml) (WARNING, editing the registry can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, make sure to USE YOUR HEAD, if you removed something you didn't want to, don't worry, just use the back up in this program)

5). Do a virus and spyware scan using the latest deffenitions, remove offending files (Spybot (http://security.kolla.de)) (AdAware (http://lavasoft.de/))

6). Go to www.k-lite.tk (http://doa2.host.sk/) and download the latest NON BETA version of Kazaa Lite K++

7). Make sure nothing else is running on your computer (like other file sharing applications), then install with the settings you like

That should do it, hopefully :)

[GenoCyde]

Now this is odd.I opened up Klite,and I had a few seconds before the ill-app would pop up,I stopped all the downloads that I currently had,and cleared them.

Low and behold,no more problems.I guess that it didnt like what I was downloading.

Thanks for taking the time and trying to help me anyways!

[Krell]

. . . .*sigh*

It's bad when a newbie solves his own problem and doesnt even know why or how.

Illegal Operations and Invalid Page Faults are typical erorrs one gets when a program is trying to access a memory range that is not available, either due to the memory range being preallocated, or bad RAM. There are occassions when one over clocks and the timing is off enough to cause problems.

MOST of the time, it is due to being already committed. So when that module loads, and says HEY . . . I NEED THIIIIIIS much space to start working on these downloads . . . and it isnt there, you get an error.

The memory range could be in use by a device driver, or another app.

He solved his problem by cancelling the amount of workspace in memory. He may also need to run the MEMTEST

Keep in mind that W98 does a terrible job at reallocating memory too.



EDIT : thanks phalkon !!

I should have embedded that link, good job


btw . . . thats not a DOS floppy it will make, so it will still appear blank in Explorer

[phalkon30]

The program Krell mentioned (Memtest) is a dos program that runs off a floppy, you can find it here (http://www.memtest86.com/)

This program runs your ram through some tests and tells you if you have faulty ram. Its free, easy, and can save you a lot of troubleshooting time