mysqld.exe suddenly can't start, the "memory could not be read" error

[Eugen G.]

Hello,

My setup is: Windows XP SP3 with MySQL Server 5.1 Essential (using it for radio broadcasting via SAM Broadcaster).

Every time, after about 40 days of system up-time, mysqld.exe crashes for no reason.

I tried to restart the process, and while i was able to stop it using net stop mysql command, i was never able to start it back using the net start mysql command.
I am getting a typical Windows error message about application error and memory that could not be read.
A simple computer restart did not help neither, the mysqld.exe refuses to start, giving the same error message.

The ibdata1 database file is fine, because after a clean Windows and MySQL installation i have manually replaced the new file with the old one and everything is still working fine.

There must something going wrong with mysqld.exe service or file.

Here is the screen shot of the classic error message, but unfortunately it is in Russian. I guess anyone can recognize the message about memory that could not be read.


Has anyone ever encountered an issue like that? I am totally down with this...