Unistalled then reinstalled a Full Patch15 vanilla install.
Ran ahedit.exe----> program error.
Deleted contents of patch15 settings folder just in case and ran ahedit----> program error.
First of the week I did run the Microsoft rollup update for Win7 as the only change on my PC but, ahedit was working for Patch14 with that rollup installed. Ran the patch15 ahedit.exe 5 times, all debug shows exactly the same parameters as the one included below.
The debugger cannot load info for an NVIDIA driver that used to cause problems with some games. Is it possible this is an NVIDIA caused error?dump file debug:
Loading Dump File [D:\Aces High III\fault\011317ahedit\ahedit.exe.5004.dmp]
User Mini Dump File: Only registers, stack and portions of memory are available
Symbol search path is: SRV*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Executable search path is:
Windows 7 Version 7601 (Service Pack 1) MP (4 procs) Free x86 compatible
Product: WinNt, suite: SingleUserTS
Machine Name:
Debug session time: Fri Jan 13 11:07:21.000 2017 (UTC - 8:00)
System Uptime: not available
Process Uptime: 0 days 0:00:13.000
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Loading unloaded module list
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This dump file has an exception of interest stored in it.
The stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr.
(138c.398): Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not available)
eax=00000000 ebx=0018ede4 ecx=00000004 edx=ffc83eb0 esi=00000002 edi=00000000
eip=77c8016d esp=0018ed94 ebp=0018ee30 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00000246
ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects+0x15:
77c8016d 83c404 add esp,4
0:000> .ecxr
eax=0018f5b0 ebx=0132a418 ecx=00000004 edx=ffc83eb0 esi=00000004 edi=0018f5b0
eip=004db9eb esp=0018f594 ebp=0018f59c iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00010202
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for ahedit.exe
ahedit+0xdb9eb:
004db9eb 0fb60e movzx ecx,byte ptr [esi] ds:002b:00000004=??
0:000> !analyze -v
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* *
* Exception Analysis *
* *
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*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvd3dum.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvd3dum.dll
GetPageUrlData failed, server returned HTTP status 404
URL requested:
http://watson.microsoft.com/StageOne/ahedit_exe/0_0_0_0/5852bc50/ahedit_exe/0_0_0_0/5852bc50/c0000005/000db9eb.htm?Retriage=1FAULTING_IP:
ahedit+db9eb
004db9eb 0fb60e movzx ecx,byte ptr [esi]
EXCEPTION_RECORD: ffffffff -- (.exr 0xffffffffffffffff)
ExceptionAddress: 004db9eb (ahedit+0x000db9eb)
ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
Parameter[0]: 00000000
Parameter[1]: 00000004
Attempt to read from address 00000004
PROCESS_NAME: ahedit.exe
ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.
EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.
EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 00000000
EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 00000004
READ_ADDRESS: 00000004
FOLLOWUP_IP:
ahedit+db9eb
004db9eb 0fb60e movzx ecx,byte ptr [esi]
MOD_LIST: <ANALYSIS/>
NTGLOBALFLAG: 0
APPLICATION_VERIFIER_FLAGS: 0
FAULTING_THREAD: 00000398
BUGCHECK_STR: APPLICATION_FAULT_NULL_CLASS_
PTR_DEREFERENCE_INVALID_POINT
ER_READ
PRIMARY_PROBLEM_CLASS: NULL_CLASS_PTR_DEREFERENCE
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: NULL_CLASS_PTR_DEREFERENCE
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 0046aab9 to 004db9eb
STACK_TEXT:
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
0018f59c 0046aab9 00000004 0018f5b0 0135daf0 ahedit+0xdb9eb
0018fa34 0048637e 00000000 0050b700 ffffffff ahedit+0x6aab9
0018fa64 00487499 40c00000 00000000 00000000 ahedit+0x8637e
0018fbb0 00486ed6 0018fe38 00000000 00000000 ahedit+0x87499
0018fbd8 0044d562 0018fe38 00000000 0018fe18 ahedit+0x86ed6
0018fbe8 00451edb 0018fe38 0018fd14 0018fd14 ahedit+0x4d562
0018fe18 0044ffa3 0018fe38 00000000 0018fe38 ahedit+0x51edb
0018ff3c 004ddc63 00400000 00000000 003032e7 ahedit+0x4ffa3
0018ff88 76f6336a fffde000 0018ffd4 77c99902 ahedit+0xddc63
0018ff94 77c99902 fffde000 779199fe 00000000 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xe
0018ffd4 77c998d5 004ddb5c fffde000 00000000 ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x70
0018ffec 00000000 004ddb5c fffde000 00000000 ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b
STACK_COMMAND: ~0s; .ecxr ; kb
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0
SYMBOL_NAME: ahedit+db9eb
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: ahedit
IMAGE_NAME: ahedit.exe
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 5852bc50
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: NULL_CLASS_PTR_DEREFERENCE_c0
000005_ahedit.exe!Unknown
BUCKET_ID: APPLICATION_FAULT_NULL_CLASS_
PTR_DEREFERENCE_INVALID_POINT
ER_READ_ahedit+db9eb
WATSON_STAGEONE_URL:
http://watson.microsoft.com/StageOne/ahedit_exe/0_0_0_0/5852bc50/ahedit_exe/0_0_0_0/5852bc50/c0000005/000db9eb.htm?Retriage=1Followup: MachineOwner
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0:000> dd 0046aab9
0046aab9 8508c483 8b1175c0 4d8b5ec6 e8cd33fc
0046aac9 0006b84b c35de58b 013e868b c0850000
0046aad9 8d8d1974 fffffb7c a2b06851 e8500046
0046aae9 00001143 850cc483 8b1f75c0 00014286
0046aaf9 74c08500 7c8d8d15 51fffffb 46a2b068
0046ab09 20e85000 83000011 4d8b0cc4 9c858bfc
0046ab19 33fffffb f4e85ecd 8b0006b7 ccc35de5
0046ab29 cccccccc 55cccccc 4d8bec8b 85c03308
0:000> dd 004db9eb
004db9eb 460eb60f 83bf418d 037719f8 0f20c183
004db9fb 8d4717b6 f883bf42 83037719 c98520c2
004dba0b ca3b0474 ca2bda74 5ec18b5f 8b55c35d
004dba1b 6c3d83ec 00015549 7d832975 17750008
004dba2b 002303e8 1600c700 e8000000 00003b3c
004dba3b ffffffb8 83c35d7f 74000c7d 92e95de3
004dba4b 6affffff 0c75ff00 e80875ff 00000005
004dba5b 5d0cc483 ec8b55c3 8d10ec83 5653f04d
0:000> kb
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
0018ed94 755e171a 00000002 0018ede4 00000001 ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects+0x15
0018ee30 76f619fc 0018ede4 0018ee58 00000000 KERNELBASE!WaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x100
0018ee78 76f641d8 00000002 fffde000 00000000 kernel32!WaitForMultipleObjectsExImple
mentation+0xe0
0018ee94 76f880bc 00000002 0018eec8 00000000 kernel32!WaitForMultipleObjects+0x18
0018ef00 76f87f7b 0018efe0 00000001 00000001 kernel32!WerpReportFaultInternal+0x186
0018ef14 76f87870 0018efe0 00000001 0018efb0 kernel32!WerpReportFault+0x70
0018ef24 76f877ef 0018efe0 00000001 b67942e3 kernel32!BasepReportFault+0x20
0018efb0 77cd5be7 00000000 77cd5ac4 00000000 kernel32!UnhandledExceptionFilter+0x1af
0018efb8 77cd5ac4 00000000 0018ffd4 77c8c620 ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x62
0018efcc 77cd5951 00000000 00000000 00000000 ntdll!_EH4_CallFilterFunc+0x12
0018eff4 77cc3529 fffffffe 0018ffc4 0018f130 ntdll!_except_handler4+0x8e
0018f018 77cc34fb 0018f0e0 0018ffc4 0018f130 ntdll!ExecuteHandler2+0x26
0018f03c 77cc349c 0018f0e0 0018ffc4 0018f130 ntdll!ExecuteHandler+0x24
0018f0c8 77c70143 0018f0e0 0018f130 0018f0e0 ntdll!RtlDispatchException+0x127
0018f0c8 00000000 0018f0e0 0018f130 0018f0e0 ntdll!KiUserExceptionDispatcher+0xf