Groovy Mame crashes on startup

[mikew72]

Hi guys.

I have a PC in a JAMMA cabinet hooked up to a 24" 15k monitor, running Windows 7 64bit and Groovy MAME 229.

It was working perfectly with a mobility HD 5550 in it.  After rummaging through my pile of old PC parts I came across a HD 7770 card which I thought would be an improvement over the 5550.

After reinstalling Atom-15, crt emudriver and rerunning vmmaker It's working fine in wondows again with the 15k monitor.  However, whenever I try to run Groovy MAME, it crashes with the following error:


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Exception at EIP=0000000000000000 (not found): ACCESS VIOLATION
While attempting to write memory at 0000000000000000
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RAX=000000000000003b RBX=00000000003b6b20 RCX=0000000000000000 RDX=0000000000000000
RSI=00000000025b3670 RDI=000000014f6f6ca3 RBP=00000000003b6a80 RSP=00000000003b68d8
 R8=0000000000000000  R9=00000000003b6910 R10=0000000000000000 R11=000000014f6f6caa
R12=00000000025b9700 R13=00000000003b6920 R14=0000000000000000 R15=00000000003b6b20
-----------------------------------------------------
Stack crawl:
  00000000003b68d0: 0000000000000000 (not found)
  00000000003b6a20: 00000001461603a0 (not found)
  00000000003b6c10: 0000000146158815 (not found)
  00000000003b8720: 0000000146158ee0 (not found)
  00000000003b8a80: 0000000143482649 (not found)
  00000000003b8b50: 000000014348a589 (not found)
  00000000003b8bc0: 0000000143485aa6 (not found)
  00000000003b8d20: 00000001434765e5 (not found)
  00000000003b9000: 000000014346e321 (not found)
  00000000003b9130: 00000001457824d3 (not found)
  00000000003b9290: 0000000145784931 (not found)
  00000000003beed0: 000000014354b00e (not found)
  00000000003bf260: 00000001435dc71f (not found)
  00000000003bf520: 00000001435dcc6d (not found)
  00000000003bf580: 0000000143548289 (not found)
  00000000003bfaa0: 000000014b852f39 (not found)
  00000000003bfb70: 000000013f1e13c1 (not found)
  00000000003bfba0: 000000013f1e14f6 (not found)
  00000000003bfbd0: 00000000773a556d (BaseThreadInitThunk+0x000d)
  00000000003bfc20: 000000007760372d (RtlUserThreadStart+0x001d)

Normal MAME still works fine.  What have I (not) done wrong?

[mikew72]

OK, problem resolved...

No idea why it wasn't working but a reinstall of Win 7 and all the software fixed the issue.  I'm just grateful I made the decision to keep all ROMs/CHDs etc on a separate drive.