"Invalid access to memory location" Error Code: 0x800703e6

From: Ravi Raman (ravira_at_Online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:31:21 -0800

Considering your other post that Anonymous plug-in was in
error state, that would explain your WSX not streaming.

The issue with WMS Editor may be due to a different
reason. Did you happen to install any new software on the
server (like MS Office, any 3rd party software etc.)?

If you want you can try the following and see if it helps,
but I cannot guarantee you the results or any issues that
may arise out of this.

1. Go to your Windows' System32 directory (i.e, %WINDIR%
\system32).
2. Run regsvr32 msxml3.dll

then, restart the MMC Admin/Playlist editor and see if it
works.

Thx,
Ravi 

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>-----Original Message-----
>Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, not a DC, joined 
in a domain.
>
>For no apparent reason Windows Media Services has begun 
reporting errors and 
>is failing to read or edit playlist SMIL files, or serve 
based on their 
>contents.
>
>WMS was installed originally and the streaming patch 
KB818127 applied. It 
>has been running fine for months.
>
>In the MMC, any Publishing Point, on the Source tab:
>
>Any playlists (*.wsx) set as the content source are 
suddenly not displaying 
>in the detail pane, and the playlist editor displays an 
error when it is 
>invoked from the button below the detail pane. The server 
also cannot play 
>the playlist any more.
>
>Instead of seeing an expandable tree-view of the contents 
of the SMIL file, 
>it simply shows one line looking like this in the left 
tree-view pane:
>
>-- [icon] Playlist_name.wsx
>
>If we press the Playlist Editor button to call up the 
editor it displays the 
>New/Open dialog, but after selecting our choice the 
Editor doesn't 
>immediately appear (maybe 20 seconds go by) then a 
message box is displayed:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
>Windows Media Services
>
>[X icon] Error Description: Invalid access to memory 
location.
>             Error Code: 0x800703e6
>
>                      [ OK ]
>----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
>
>There is no corresponding entry in the Event Log.
>
>The editor window now appears, but each time we add a new 
element the error 
>message shown above appears.
>
>However, if we run wmseditor.exe from its folder
>
>C:\WINDOWS\system32\windows 
media\server\admin\mmc\wmseditor.exe
>
>it works fine, and can load and work with the playlists 
that the MMC console 
>is unable to show.
>
>Thinking that a file had somehow become corrupted we 
backed up
>
>C:\WINDOWS\system32\windows 
media\server\ServerNamespace.xml
>
>then uninstalled WMS from Add/Remove Programs->Windows 
Components.
>
>After restarting the server, WMS was reinstalled, and 
then the patch from 
>KB818127 and then KB843496.
>
>The same problem persists still.
>
>The only thing I can imagine is that the COM component 
linkages for the SMIL 
>editor embedded in the Windows Media Services MMC is 
somehow corrupted - but 
>I don't know which components nor how to fix that.
>
>
>.
>

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