Re: nasty assertion error

From:

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>

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microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.win2000.general

Date:

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:53:09 -0500

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"George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Ben check this out:

I cannot run dxdiag anymore. Eerie. Yikes this op sys is dead eh? All I
can do here is Abort. If I just keep hitting Ignore after a while dxdiag
will quit and write an error log (Dr Watson?) but I don't know where that
file is being placed. Haven't done the disabling of codecs yet but will.

www.dependencywalker.com

If you think one of the system dlls has been replaced by a debug version
that should help you find it. Especially try the profiling mode.

--
George Hester
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"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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"George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Alex good point but something tells me this is going to happen with a
vaiety of applications on this machine. In other words this issue is
not
restricted to just Windows Media Player Classic. It has to do with
anything
which is going to try to access a .ax file at startup. You know when
Windows starts it accesses .ax files at startup also. Oh well when I
find

I wasn't aware of any such thing as a .ax file.... looks like a renamed
DLL,
Dependency Walker opens it just fine. That might help you track down the
problem.

Also, have you tried disabling the various codecs (Device Manager -> Sound
and audio -> Audio Codecs -> Properties -> Properties tab) to see if a
particular one is causing the problem?