Hi peeps.
In the wee hours of the morning, and sleep is nowhere to be found I play games. My favorite site is Pogo.com. About 3 or 4 times now, the games dissappears and pc goes back to desk top, and this error with desktop shortcut appears(why the desktop icon, btw) hs_err_pid420-note... which opens into this.
An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) occurred at PC=0x6DF1A2E
Function=[Unknown.]
Library=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\jsound.dll

NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible
reason and solutions.


Current Java thread:
at com.sun.media.sound.MixerThread.runNative(Native Method)
at com.sun.media.sound.MixerThread.run(Unknown Source)



#
# The exception above was detected in native code outside the VM
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (1.4.2-b28 mixed mode)

And I can not fine this release documentation it mentions. Any ideas?

I'm not sure what can be the cause, but you could try to reinstall the Sun Java Virtual Machine ( www.java.com) or try to change the VM preference in IE back to the windows VM (I got a localized Windows, but I think Tools->Settings->Special, and untick "Use Sun VM" and tick JIT under "Microsoft VM")

Not sure if this will work, but maybe worth a try. ( The Java code on the site made something baaaad during sound mixing, according to the code )

That seems to be a pretty common error code with JavaVM. All I got out of the jibberish I read was to go to java.com and d/l the latest version of JavaVM.

Not sure if that will help or not.

Damn, beat to the punch.

New java downloaded, We will see how it works. thanks guys.

Report back on this so I'll be sure I did not talk complete nonsense

Sure thing. so far so good though.

After an extensive Java work out last night, everything seems to be A ok. Thanks.

Ok, the games are working fine now, but my emoticon here at 4 peeps are not working. Could this be a related problem.