Opening program causes reboot

I have Cakewalk Music Creater 2003 on my computer (Operating Sysytem = Windows XP), which used to work fine. However, I had loads of virus problems recently, and now whenever I try to open the program my computer instantly reboots itself. Anyone got any idea why this is happening and how it could be fixed?

For reference, here is the error message I get when I try to open it:

"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down in order to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates. Try changing video adapters.

Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select startup options, and then select safe mode.

Technical Information:

***STOP:0x0000008E(0xc0000005, 0xf64f5ccc, 0xf65ff3d8, 0x00000000)

*** nvmcp.sys _ Address f64f5ccc base at f64b4000, DateStamp 3d0fa54d

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance. "


So there you go. Thanks a lot to anyone who can help!

I had virus problems before, but now I've got Norton anti-virus and they seem to have cleared up. I think one of the viruses I had before may have permanently corrupted something though, which is what's stopping cakewalk from opening. What do you think? Is this possible/likely? And if this is the problem, is there any way I can fix it?

and if you still have a problem after you run a virus scan and reinstall Cakewalk, I would wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall windows.

None that i know off currupted files are a terror!! I suggest a clean hard drive and then start from scratch. When you get a clean system then protect it first then add the other things. If you have antivirus that is good, i find norton to be rather painful it seems to take over. I prefer Avast it can be found at snapfiles.com also i suggest sygate for a fire wall both of these are free and work very well, the aforementioned AGV is not bad i had it for about a year but it did not seem to catch anything so i tried avast and it seemed to be more agressive without trying to take control of my computer, like norton does. it also updates several times a week and runs well with other programs.

Many out there like myself, use their computers for many different things, surfing the web, office work, e-mail, and music. While this can be done, it is not optimal. DAW work (digital audio workstation) is very demanding of a computer. we are asking a computer to do what a mega expensive recording console used to do. This demands most of our resourses inside the computer, ram, processor speed. It is best if one wants this to work real well to built a system dedicated to music recording and not attach it to the internet. then have a second system for basic use. If one can not do that that is understandable, i can not at this time, but we have to realize that all we do on this system is going to conflict, and compete for the systems resourses.

Thanks guy for the update on AVG, I will take a look at it, I used it for a while in my office, but one of my friends over at acid planet sent me a link that questioned it's ability to catch some of the nasties out there, i can't remember the details but it made sense at the time. So I tried Avast, so far 18 months and no viruses. It is a very interactive software, also free. Using it together with sygate firewall i have had no problems. A greeat place to shop for lots of very nice free stuff is at http://www.webattack.com/freeware/ i find loads of goodies there. Also over at http://www.kvr-vst.com/ there is lots of great music stuff

May humbly suggest that BEFORE you wipe yourself clean [and boy is that the last resort of last resorts] that you do a CLEAN uninstall and reinstall and see if your problems are resolved.
I've bumped instructions to the top of the forum.