Application Error...

[Markoman01027]

Last nite, while I was executing Microsoft Outlook Express, I got a message saying this

"Application popup: DirectDBNotifyWndProc: msimn.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x76e25288" referenced memory at "0x00000008". The memory could not be "read"."

I am running IE 5.0 with SP4 and Windows 2000.

Also running PC2100 2x256MB of DDR RAM from CRUCIAL and AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with an MSI Motherboard with the VIA KT333 chipset. That is all I know about my motherboard at this moment.

I have scanned for viruses, found none, removed all spyware and did a regclean with the microsoft regclean utility.

What does this error message mean?

Sometimes after this error, I would execute the program again, and it would be messed up, and sometimes the program would run fine.

I get two choices, either to debugg or cancel. I guess these options happened when I installed Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler.

The hard drive was recently reformatted, like about a month ago.

The HD has been in the system for over a year and a half and it's been through a few reformats, OS changes(98, XP, and 2000) .

I don't think this is a hardware problem(if it is, I think it is the hard drive) but it is more looking towards the software side.

Also checked the error log, and I got the samething when WIN2K tried executing task manager.

Also got it once with Mozilla, and it referenced some memory address.

Anybody have any clues to what this could be?

TIA

[andyms18a]

this can be any number of things my first thought is go to internet options in control panel and on the advanced tab tick disable script debugging and untick display notification on script errors and see if it stops the problem

[andyms18a]

it may all so be bad sectors on the hard drive you can download your hdd manufactures diag software and test it
and it may be bad ram and last the install of the run time compiler may not have gone correctly try and install it again