Bad Memory

Do you have an original copy? Can you delete it and re-load. My guess is no. If it came on the PC, that means you may have to endure the hell of MS customer helpless.

When was the last tie you backed up your hard drive? Can you restore your PC to an earlier version, before the problem arose?

Microsoft is not your friend.

Sounds like your code has been corrupted someplace....I would re-load driver for the printer, and possibly reinstall word program, and run maintenance programs...

Download a copy of Openoffice. And try to print the same file from that application.

Unless you are an OFFICE2010 user, Openoffice is like their older versions of Office (1997/2003) as far as operation goes.

Memory locations down in that range of memory are interrupt vectors (Intel architecture). From looking at some old assembly that location would be single step interrupt, which does not make any sense to me for any windows version use.

I have the Microsoft Office 97 disk. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. No help

I downloaded OpenOffice. It will print the files I can't print with Word.

I can print other Microsoft Office files like Excel.

System restore wouldn't complete. Error at 0x80070005

Dave

If you're comfortable running development tools, run valgrind (@ valgrind.net).

Unless that's an address in VM in which case it could be anywhere in physical memory.

You still haven't ruled out the hardware. If you're comfortable inside machines, find your memory sticks, remove them completely, then reinstall and reseat them. If there's more than one and of identical MB size, you can try swapping their position.

If you are really, really comfortable inside a machine you should also remove and reseat every connector (one at a time please), sometimes just wiggling them will do wonders with intermittent problems.

Thanks for that discussion.

I removed one memory card and reseated it, but not properly. When I restarted, the computer reported a change in memory. I shut down and reseated the memory chip properly. When I restarted one option was Dell's diagnostic tools. That incluuded a complete preboot memory check. It reported no problem. I also defraqgged the hard drive. My conclusion so fr is that it's not a hardware problem.

The computer is several years old, so I think that what I'll do is buy a new hard drive, as they have a finite life, and then reload from scratch.

I'll load Microsoft Office early in the process, then I can check for the problem reoccurance with each thing I add.

Sound reasonable to you?

Dave

I personally only believe what MEMTest86 tells me, nothing else.

Your choice, but that is a quick and easy method....

Costs one CD to burn the program on....

It won't run in (cough) defective RAM?

LOL!!!

Could be true. But at least you will know!!! Simply buy new RAM!!!

The times I used it, lower RAM was apparently OK, but it found bit errors higher up, really great.....if you see what I mean!

Its those types of errors that will get you upset, MEMTest86 finds EVERYTHING that is not kosher....

It allowed me to take to task an ebayer selling defective PC1600 RAMs. Ebay gave me my money back!!! Wonderful PayPal!!! He got a REALLY poor evaluation (or whatever you call it in English) from me, he went down to a little over 90% from 100% before!!)

I believe it will cost him more than the €50 that he made in the end as others will not chance buying from him, or only give low low bids....stupidity is for life.

Even if you have no apparent memory problems, its a good idea to run it say every 3 months or so....peace of mind!!

Since it's an older machine how about telling us how much RAM and HD space you have, along with the processor and OS. A few years ago 1Gb was the minimum, now its 4Gb, same thing with scaling HDs.

There are settings in the OS that determine the amount of swap space that gets allocated. If you have a program with poor "clean up" processes" and/or "memory leaks" and a small swap space it's possible to get VM (Virtual Memory) errors in those circumstances. The larger drive will help, but more memory might help even more.

If you really want put some life back into the machine, buy a SSD (Solid State Drive) and use it as your primary drive, most people I recommend that to say it's like giving them a new PC for under $150.

I concure. Sorry I do not spell very well. But that is not a bad idea. Also I would get a copy of Spinrite from Gibson Reasearch. It is one hell of a program that will keep a drive going that in most cases would have died or at least been unusable. And it can restor data that was lost using a technology that was originally used by analog modems called Trellis coding. Steve can explain it better than I on a short but very important video he made. Do a search on Steve Gibson and spin rite and you will find the video. It can and has saved many folks sending drives to places that cost a fortune to recover data. And most of those places can NOT recover the data. Also it can speed up the disk for many reasons and I am not talking about due to fragmentation of data. And Finally. It can let you know a drive is going bad IF you check the temp of the drive under normal working conditions and when you run spin rite. If the drive gets very hot when running spinrite then your drive is close to death. I could go on and on but getting a new drive is always a good idea to have one on hand. Also I would run Spinrite on ANY NEW drive before doing anything else to it. Then one more thing. If you have an extra drive on hand and have used a good sector backup program such as Acronis you can restore your backup to a new drive in less than an hour in most cases with little data being lost if a drive totally fails or if the computer is stolen to there is a fire etc.. Always keep a copy off site. Hope this helps. Jim

Which memory diagnostic did you run? If you mean the one on the mainboard, I would not be surprised if it found nothing at all....in fact, I have never seen these BIOS memory tests ever find anything wrong ever.....they are to my mind a waste of space....

Go here and download the free version, it works really well:-

memtest86

Depending upon your needs, you can boot it from a floppy, a CD or even a bootable USB stick....I personally prefer the CD and you may need to alter your BIOS so that your PC boots from the CD/DVD first.....

It does not run under ANY OS. Read all the infos on the website.

Depending upon how much memory you have it can take a long time to run...be patient!!

I think it will find that you have a hardware memory problem. It could even just be a contact problem. Swapping around cards or simply for single cards, swap the position may fix that....

Someone here gave you good advice in identifying which memory card is defective, I forget who it was.....

But MEMTEST86 will let you know if a problem is there or not.....

Best of luck.

Please also check your printer. I had similar problem it was due to Chinese made HP printer.It was solved after replacing old cartridge.

My win 8.1 does this at every startup. In my case it is due to the Canon Pixma MG 8150 TWAIN software. The code says a scanner issue. Bullsh#@. The printer runs from my Vaio laptop just fine. I use Open Office 3.4.1 on my win 8.1 computer and the printer won't scan. I have just recently run registry clean and still no good. I am sorry I don't have a solution. I have found in the past that very good printers have be thrown out when I have updated windows ( Win 85 to Vista ) I have the latest update from Canon on my win8.1, but I find I can no longer do most of the things that I can do on my laptop ( Vista ) with the old Canon program, including scanning.

Jim

Ever wonder how many billions of man-hours have been wasted thus far by users worldwide fixing or finding workarounds to Microsoft's crap? Billions.

That company is a millstone around Humanity's neck.

Oh how right you are!!

You never even mentioned all the hardware that was replaced due to a new Win OS!!!

Only buy hardware that can be used on Linux too.....

Problem 1: Microsoft

Problem 2: Microsoft

Problem 3:you get the picture.

You didn't mention what brand or type of printer. Some printers allow spooling and saving to printer before printing. If yours does this then you might check to see if you have a direct print option. If you mainly print documents you'd be better off getting a new one. Typical price of $50 or less is worth not having the stress of needing a document and not being able to print it.