Status Access Violation issues

I had a similar issue with my PC. YouTube in particular, plus the login function on several websites. On both Edge and Chrome. For many months, after a few months post getting a new PC.

I also tried deleting cookies, resetting flags, hiding extensions, etc, etc. Seemed strange that it was both browsers.

Games and other apps were all fine.

Then I got a new symptom that gave more information. The login failures, which were not always failures - about 70% - got worse after I finished playing a game and tried logging in. Then it was about 99% failure, at random times while typing login info. This pointed to something physical, e.g. the hardware still being warm.

I found information elsewhere about disabling particular CPU cores. This has completely cured it for me, instantly.

Setting CPU Affinity for several of my cores using Project Lasso, means that Chrome and Edge won't use those particular cores.

And that has completely solved it.

For me it was in the low numbered cores.

(I have a 13900K with plenty more cores so that's not an issue for me!)

I suspect that's also why a CPU change fixes it for others. There's some combination of hardware, heat, timing plus the particular instructions that some programs run, on some particular cores (which are perhaps a bit weaker or less tolerant), that causes a timeout or error in the software.

FYI that I'm a software, hardware and systems engineer.

Perhaps we're pushing miniaturisation, number of cores, timing and spacing to such extremes that we're now getting these interactions. Needs better testing in the factories I think. :)

I wanted to wait to reply again to make sure it has gone away for good but so far it hasn’t came up. Again I have a ASUS motherboard and I was using the AI optimized overclocking feature for the CPU. I turned that off in bios (no over clocking cpu) and I was able to watch a Facebook live stream for a little over 3 hours and that pesky status access violation never showed up.

It's not Intel that's doing this. I have a Ryzen 5 5600X and I've been dealing with this for months now. So, the issue is still lurking - for me at least. I have a laptop that has a 6800U and I never ran into any of this status access nonsense. I tried inspecting all the extensions, settings, and what not and none of them were the culprit.

But for whatever reason, I seem to get this STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION a lot when watching YouTube videos. Almost no other pages seems to go trigger happy and trigger that message, so I'm so confused as to what YouTube could possibly be doing in the background that triggers this message on my desktop, but not my laptop and I'm getting sick of it.

Cpu replaced fixed it for good. No more status access violations. No diagnostics or other tests showed issue with cpu but it was the cpu

Hi, MiltonAngelSoto

I'm sorry I'm a bit late, unfortunately none of the methods mentioned above worked, I think you can try the following (if your problem persists):

1: Disable Renderer Code Integrity 

　　Google recently enabled renderer code integrity, and other Chromium browsers were quick to adopt it. This integrity is responsible for two things - validating all code loaded by a web page and allowing only signed code to proceed. However, in some cases, it can trigger false positives and prevent the rendering of code from trusted sites. So, if you now believe this to be the case, then consider disabling renderer code integrity.

　　Here are the steps to disable renderer code integrity in Edge browser:

• Select the desktop shortcut link for Microsoft Edge.
• Right-click on the context menu and select Properties.
• Switch to the Shortcuts tab and add the following string to the end of the existing target field:

　　--disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrity

...

...

Your target field should now look something like the following: 

"C:\Program Files (x86) \Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" - disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrity

• Click Apply Then Okay.
• Use this shortcut to launch the browser.

Now try to load the page where you are experiencing access conflict issues. Disabling code integrity may have resolved the issue.

2: Manual execution by registry editor

If you wish to perform this task manually using the Registry Editor, you can follow the steps below: 

• Start the Registry Editor in your Windows operating system.
• Navigate to the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge location.
• Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value.
• name the file RendererCodeIntegrityEnabled and assign 0 Value data to it.
• Hit the OK command button to save.
• Disabling Renderer Code Integrity may prove to be a bit risky as you are turning off an important security feature. Therefore, when this feature is disabled, make sure that you do not visit any non-secure sites, such as those still following HTTP or those without a valid SSL certificate. Disclaimer: Generally, modifying registry subkeys or work group is intended for advanced users, administrators, and IT Professionals. It can help fix some problems, however, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For further protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click How to back up and restore the registry in Windows - Microsoft Supportto view the article. ... ... If there is anything not clear or I can't understand your problem, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Best Regards

Martin | Microsoft Community Support Specialist