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Subject: Re: Windows Socket Error

Author: Stephen Ham

Date: 21:36:29 06/09/03

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On June 09, 2003 at 17:01:38, Stephen Ham wrote:

>Dear Computer experts,
>
>Over the weekend, I ran a small tournament on my computer. During the time that
>it ran, I had my monitor turned off. But at times, I heard the computer emit
>sounds like it does when an error has occured.
>
>Yesterday, when I turned my monitor on, I saw about 20-error messages. They all
>read something like: "Win Socket at AP Synch Lookup." I'm going my memory here,
>but I think I recall the wording generally correctly. So when I clicked the
>boxes to make them go away, my computer crashed. There shouldn't be any memory
>problems since I have 512 MB's of RAM. I therefore rebooted several times and
>checked for viruses and spyware and cleaned out my Windows tempory file. But the
>Win Socket boxes persist in appearing from time to time.
>
>What's wrong and how do I fix this? My computer is 2-years old, with Windows 98,
>and I haven't had this trouble previously.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>

I'm home now and see that the error boxes actually read:

Window Socket error (11001), on API 'ASync Lookup'

I still havn't a clue as to what that means and how to fix it. Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

Stephen



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