ILLEGAL OPERATION, PLZ HELP

[adam]

Hi there,

i have just installed avast  home version 4.1 on a win 98 First editon comp. the resident protection scanner works fine, updates ok, when i open up avast antivirus program get the following; ( i have also un and re installed avast )

ASHSIMPL caused an invalid page fault in
module WINMM.DLL at 0167:bfe13531.
Registers:
EAX=00000003 CS=0167 EIP=bfe13531 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=82940e70 SS=016f ESP=01f2ff20 EBP=01f2ff6c
ECX=82830000 DS=016f ESI=bfe13522 FS=18b7
EDX=82940e7c ES=016f EDI=c1594ff0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 41 10 ff 72 0c 68 bd 03 00 00 ff 72 58 e8 42
Stack dump:
00000000 bff85046 82940e7c c1594ff0 000000c0 82940e70 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000001 817c35a0 00000001 c1455344 bff741fb 01f2fd50 01f2ffbc

[Eddy]

winmm.dll = Windows Multimedia API, which contains low-level audio and joystick functions.

I could be wrong here, but it looks like a problem with your sound drivers. Let's see what others have to say about this. (Alwil people?)

Any errors in device manager?
Any errors in Avast's log file?
Any errors in the system and/or event log of your OS?

[Lisandro]

See these threads, maybe you'll find the solution:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=5110
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=4464
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=2120

Can you disable avast! sounds in the program settings and see if it helps?