Cops 2170: Power of Law problems

[alimcm]

Always seem to get this error on starting the game (both v1.0 and v1.22):-

Code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Description: The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.

Stack trace:
001B:73781AC9 DDRAW.dll
001B:77D48709 USER32.dll
001B:77D487EB USER32.dll
001B:77D4B368 USER32.dll
001B:77D4B3B4 USER32.dll
001B:7C90EAE3 ntdll.dll
001B:77D4CFF8 USER32.dll
001B:00570D6D pol.exe
001B:00758755 pol.exe, MlResourceMgr::~MlResourceMgr()+913509 byte(s)
001B:7C816D4F kernel32.dll

Searched quite a few forums. Doesn't appear like anyone has encountered this problem b4, so if it isn't a s/w prob, suspect it might be my rig.

It's a brand new computer, using Windows XP SP2 Profressional.

My system specs are as follows:-
CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP 3200+ Socket939
MB: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (Bios 1003 final)
RAM: Corsair DDR400 1GB x 2
Graphics: MSI Geforce 6600GT 128mb PCI-E SLI x 2 (Nvidia driver 66.93)

At first, I though it might've been an SLI problem, but turning off SLI produced the exact same startup error.

Could any of you gurus out there help?