EventID 7023 - Invalid access to memory location
I have a Windows 2003 R2 server running SQL Server 2000. This appears in the event log every 15 minutes:
EventID: 7023
The Network Connections service terminated with the following error:
Invalid access to memory location.
Sometimes it's:
EventID: 7023
The Cryptographic Services service terminated with the following error:
Invalid access to memory location.
The other odd thing is I can't get to Windows Update with this machine. I can get to other websites but WU takes foverer to load, then asks me if I want to update the softare. I say yes and it just sits there. In an article somewhere it suggested registering a list of DLL's related to Windows Update. All of them registered except this:
"Loadlibrary("wuaueng.dll"
I can find no reference to this "invalid access to memory location" error anywhere, on any topic. Not from Google, MS, Usenet... I've tried everything. I've seen hundreds of following errors for event id 7023 and this one is never mentioned.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
EventID: 7023
The Network Connections service terminated with the following error:
Invalid access to memory location.
Sometimes it's:
EventID: 7023
The Cryptographic Services service terminated with the following error:
Invalid access to memory location.
The other odd thing is I can't get to Windows Update with this machine. I can get to other websites but WU takes foverer to load, then asks me if I want to update the softare. I say yes and it just sits there. In an article somewhere it suggested registering a list of DLL's related to Windows Update. All of them registered except this:
"Loadlibrary("wuaueng.dll"
I can find no reference to this "invalid access to memory location" error anywhere, on any topic. Not from Google, MS, Usenet... I've tried everything. I've seen hundreds of following errors for event id 7023 and this one is never mentioned.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
theruck
are you running windows server 2003 x64 version?
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No, 32 bit.
try to disable antivirus or any other non MS applications running on the server
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Hmm... It's Sophos. There doesn't seem to be any way of disabling it so I've uninstalled it. Same problem exactly.
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This issue was forwarded to Microsoft Support. 3 days they've been at it and still can't figure out what's wrong. I'll post the final solution.
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If you have this problem, run screaming into the street.
The cryptographic services failed to load, "invalid access to memory". Why? 6 MS technicians over 5 days couldn't figure the problem out. They say it occurs only 5 times in their support database. We re-registered DLL's, copied new one's from working machines, copied registry keys from a working server, nothing would fix it. updates and service packs wouldn't apply without cryptographics.
Install/Repair was the only solution in each case including this one.
The cryptographic services failed to load, "invalid access to memory". Why? 6 MS technicians over 5 days couldn't figure the problem out. They say it occurs only 5 times in their support database. We re-registered DLL's, copied new one's from working machines, copied registry keys from a working server, nothing would fix it. updates and service packs wouldn't apply without cryptographics.
Install/Repair was the only solution in each case including this one.
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