Access violation. Why? What is this?

[jocags]

My Optimizer Pro met these following error messages:

Access violation at address 80000006. Read of address 80000006.

Access violation at address 80000000. Read of address 80000000.

What these errors mean? Any opinion on how to cope with this is highly appreciated.

[cluberti]

Address 80000006 is a kernel-mode address, unless you've enabled /3GB in your boot.ini. Assuming you haven't, the address is a kernel-mode address and as such is not accessible from user mode (user mode addresses are the first 2GB, 0x00000000 to 0x7FFFFFFF, and kernel mode is the last 2GB, 0x80000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF). However, that looks more like an error code (ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE) than an attempt to read from an address.

I'd suggest asking them to debug it, because while the error is because the app tried to read from an address it doesn't have access to, it looks a lot like the application is saying it's encountered the error I mentioned.

[jocags]

So should I change my boot.ini to /3GB or something? Can you suggest something I should exactly do? Thanks.

[cluberti]

I thought I already did:

I'd suggest asking them to debug it, because while the error is because the app tried to read from an address it doesn't have access to, it looks a lot like the application is saying it's encountered the error I mentioned.

[jocags]

I got it. I was just confused on the "them". Thanks a lot.