Since I got a new computer, bitcomet has been crashing after a few minutes of downloading (the latest attempt lasted 9 minutes) - all I was doing was downloading a couple of torrents, but it’s happened just downloading one torrent too. I’ve tried 0.73 and 0.70, same result each time. There are no error messages on windows XP’s Event Viewer either. Also, when I start Bitcomet again, it doesn’t remember how far it got in the download when it crashed, so I have to start again from scratch.
I have Windows XP Home SP2, a dualcore AMD64 3800x2 CPU, Asus M2N32-SLI motherboard, 250GB SATA Seagate HDD, and 2GB DDR2 RAM.
I’ve tried finding reasons for this to no avail - one rumour is that the dual core CPU is the problem. I’ve tried setting the affinity for Bitcomet to 1 CPU in the task manager to make it run on one CPU, and that hasn’t stopped it from crashing.
The interesting thing is that I tried Azureus and it crashed after a few minutes too. Limewire also keels over for no apparent reason sometimes. This never happened on my old computer (a single core AMD XP2100+), and my current computer has no viruses or spyware. I am suspecting that there is a hardware problem here somehow that is clashing with P2P for some reason. I had XP Home SP2 before on the old computer and used 0.70 and it didn’t crash then, so unlesst the reason is some recent Windows Update I don’t think software is causing the problem.
I sent an error report to bitcomet, though I couldn’t actually READ it - I found the crash.dmp file but I can’t read it in a text editor - is there a way for me to read it? I would really like to figure out what the problem is here because it’s very frustrating.
EDIT: Found an errorlog.txt file here:
BitComet caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module ntdll.dll at 001b:7c918fea.
Exception handler called in ExceptionAttacher.cpp - AfxWinMain.
Error occurred at 10/21/2006 13:04:16.
C:\Applications\Internet\Bitcomet\BitComet.exe, run by User.
Operating system: Windows XP (5.1.2600).
2 processor(s), type 586.
26% memory in use.
2047 MBytes physical memory.
1510 MBytes physical memory free.
3940 MBytes paging file.
3569 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
1888 MBytes user address space free.
Write to location 00000010 caused an access violation.
Context:
EDI: 0x00000000 ESI: 0x02209108 EAX: 0x00000000
EBX: 0x00000000 ECX: 0x0000077c EDX: 0x02209118
EIP: 0x7c918fea EBP: 0x0012f8f8 SegCs: 0x0000001b
EFlags: 0x00010246 ESP: 0x0012f884 SegSs: 0x00000023
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 40 10 8b 45 fc 83 e0 01 89 45 e8 8b 06 ff 40
Stack: [ignore]
Module List: [ignore]