Help : Windows 98 Guru needed !

[Guest Disco Stu]

Have downloaded a demo version of Digital Ear software for converting .wavs to .mids. Installation onto office Win98 PC went okay but got the following "Illegal / Shutting Down" message when trying to run it :

DIGITALEAR caused an invalid page fault in

module MSDXM.OCX at 0167:1d351c7c.

Registers:

EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=1d351c7c EFLGS=00010246

EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=00fb6c0c EBP=00fb7848

ECX=00000001 DS=016f ESI=016cf294 FS=297f

EDX=00fb7810 ES=016f EDI=016cf00c GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

8b 08 ff 51 18 8b 36 8d 4d cc 51 56 8b 06 ff 50

Stack dump:

00000000 00fb7810 8007000e 016cf00c 00000000 7c360000 072a00fb 0001046f 000191cc 29e80000 016f81d0 00a7297f 29de91cc 016f91cc 81d029de 91cc0001

Anything you can suggest to help would be gratefully received. Thanks

[Guest Matt Kirby]

MSDXM.OCX is a Windows Media Player ActiveX control- at a guess either this file is corrupt or the program trying to use it (DigitalEar in this case) has a problem with it or is expecting a different version.

If you get no other suggestions or can't find anything likely on Microsoft's Knowledge base try googling MSDXM.OCX to see if you can get a newer version..

[Guest mike-oh]

go to the windows update site and give that a try.

[Guest Disco Stu]

Thanks guys - sadly IT training in my office is woefully inadequate and I'm not due for an upgrade till the new year :roll:

Will let you know how I get on

[Guest Taoski]

You can re-register the OCX files back into the registry by going into the MSDos prompt and issuing the following command:

CD WINDOWSSYSTEM

REGSVR32 MSDXM.OCX

(then again.. this may only work for NT4/2000 - not done 98 for ages. It might be REGSVR not REGSVR32)

It could have been that the file was overwritten by the installation of the Digital Ear software.

If that fails - follow the instructions here to extract an original copy of the file back to where it belongs.

[Guest Taoski]

You can re-register the OCX files back into the registry by going into the MSDos prompt and issuing the following command:

CD WINDOWSSYSTEM

REGSVR32 MSDXM.OCX

(then again.. this may only work for NT4/2000 - not done 98 for ages. It might be REGSVR not REGSVR32)

It could have been that the file was overwritten by the installation of the Digital Ear software.

If that fails - follow the instructions here to extract an original copy of the file back to where it belongs.

[Guest Maverick]

Windows 98... Grrrr... thats like self inflicted torture ;-)

[Guest Disco Stu]

Yeah there's something new falling over every week - got to sort out a home PC soonest. Having broadband at work is very useful though.

Thanks again for the suggestions. Will hopefully get time to follow them up next week.