EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in WMPDXM.DLL

the old Windows machine is still working one day, Tuesday

then the next day, Wednesday, no application can connect to the internet,
it says cannot create socket, OR error in wsock32.DLL
and we cannot ping the network gateway

we needed to uninstall and reinstall windows ME,
after the tiresome process (which we had to repeat 3 times),
we can ping, and telnet, now we have real player and Mozilla Firefox running,

but still, the yahoo and windows-related services like messenger and
explorer cannot connect: here is the message
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EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module WMPDXM.DLL at 016f:088497cc.

Registers:
EAX=00000071 CS=016f EIP=088497cc EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00000000 SS=0177 ESP=0314fbb0 EBP=0314fbcc
ECX=000004f6 DS=0177 ESI=006d2b5c FS=30f7
EDX=0000050a ES=0177 EDI=00000000 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 47 0c 2b 47 04 39 45 fc 75 1b 8b 47 08 2b 07

Stack dump:
00000000 005c491c 005c4930 000017fa 00000bae 000000e8 00000071 0314fbfc
1d3712b7 006d2b5c fffffffd 00000000 005c4930 00000000 00000f24 00000000

http://www.updatexp.com/wmpdxm-dll.html
may help

I suspect, though, that your problems may be more deep-seated than that, if
you originally have IE6 installed, and then re-installed ME over the top of
that (and WMP9)
Does this often (if not always) causes what's called 'Version Soup' -
resulting in exactly the sort of issues that you're seeing with IE....
here's my standard 'spiel' on the subject

Such symptoms are frequently the result of mistakenly attempting to
reinstall ME over itself without first reverting back to IE5.5 - the
resulting 'Version Soup' is almost impossible to repair, and the only sure
way known is to completely remove IE and then reinstall whichever version
you require.

Instructions for this process are here
http://www.crashfixpc.com/ReInIE.htm

Please post back if you need more details - preferably before attempting the
process!!<g>

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

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"seth Nimbosa" wrote in message

>
> the old Windows machine is still working one day, Tuesday
>
> then the next day, Wednesday, no application can connect to the internet,
> it says cannot create socket, OR error in wsock32.DLL
> and we cannot ping the network gateway
>
> we needed to uninstall and reinstall windows ME,
> after the tiresome process (which we had to repeat 3 times),
> we can ping, and telnet, now we have real player and Mozilla Firefox
> running,
>
> but still, the yahoo and windows-related services like messenger and
> explorer cannot connect: here is the message
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
> module WMPDXM.DLL at 016f:088497cc.
>
> Registers:
> EAX=00000071 CS=016f EIP=088497cc EFLGS=00010206
> EBX=00000000 SS=0177 ESP=0314fbb0 EBP=0314fbcc
> ECX=000004f6 DS=0177 ESI=006d2b5c FS=30f7
> EDX=0000050a ES=0177 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
>
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
> 8b 47 0c 2b 47 04 39 45 fc 75 1b 8b 47 08 2b 07
>
> Stack dump:
> 00000000 005c491c 005c4930 000017fa 00000bae 000000e8 00000071 0314fbfc
> 1d3712b7 006d2b5c fffffffd 00000000 005c4930 00000000 00000f24 00000000