c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

We have SQL Server 2000 with SP3 installed on Windows 2000 Advance Server. Server has 8 GB RAM and 4 CPU. Few days back we have installed multiple named instance on this server .Now we have assign each CPU to individual instance and min server memory to 1024 and max server memory is kept open.

After this we are facing an issue with default instance for exception_access_violation as below ...
Memory
MemoryLoad = 83%
Total Physical = 7679 MB
Available Physical = 1252 MB
Total Page File = 15480 MB
Available Page File = 7756 MB
Total Virtual = 2047 MB
Available Virtual = 344 MB

*Stack Dump being sent to D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\log\SQLDu
mp0022.txt
* ************************************************** ***************************
**
*
* BEGIN STACK DUMP:
* 07/24/07 00:46:02 spid 16
*
* Exception Address = 008405D8 (DeadlockMonitor::ResolveDeadlock + 00000025 L
ine 0+00000000)
* Exception Code = c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
* Access Violation occurred reading address 00000000
*
*
* MODULE BASE END SIZE
* sqlservr 00400000 00B2CFFF 0072d000
* ntdll 77F80000 77FFCFFF 0007d000
* KERNEL32 7C570000 7C627FFF 000b8000
* ADVAPI32 7C2D0000 7C331FFF 00062000
* RPCRT4 77D30000 77D9EFFF 0006f000
* USER32 77E10000 77E74FFF 00065000
* GDI32 77F40000 77F7DFFF 0003e000
* OPENDS60 41060000 41065FFF 00006000
* MSVCRT 78000000 78044FFF 00045000
* UMS 41070000 4107CFFF 0000d000
* SQLSORT 42AE0000 42B6FFFF 00090000
* MSVCIRT 780A0000 780B1FFF 00012000
* sqlevn70 41080000 41086FFF 00007000
* NETAPI32 028D0000 0291FFFF 00050000
* Secur32 02920000 0292EFFF 0000f000
* NTDSAPI 02930000 02940FFF 00011000
* DNSAPI 02950000 02973FFF 00024000
* WSOCK32 02980000 02987FFF 00008000
* WS2_32 02990000 029A3FFF 00014000
* WS2HELP 029B0000 029B7FFF 00008000
* WLDAP32 029C0000 029E9FFF 0002a000
* NETRAP 029F0000 029F5FFF 00006000
* SAMLIB 02A00000 02A0EFFF 0000f000
* ole32 02D70000 02E5EFFF 000ef000
* XOLEHLP 02E60000 02E67FFF 00008000
* MSDTCPRX 02E70000 02F2AFFF 000bb000
* MTXCLU 02F30000 02F3FFFF 00010000
* VERSION 02F40000 02F46FFF 00007000
* LZ32 02F50000 02F55FFF 00006000
* CLUSAPI 02F60000 02F6FFFF 00010000
* RESUTILS 02F70000 02F7CFFF 0000d000
* USERENV 02F80000 02FE0FFF 00061000
* rnr20 02FF0000 02FFBFFF 0000c000
* iphlpapi 03040000 03052FFF 00013000
* ICMP 03060000 03064FFF 00005000
* MPRAPI 03070000 03086FFF 00017000
* OLEAUT32 03090000 0312AFFF 0009b000
* ACTIVEDS 03130000 0315EFFF 0002f000
* ADSLDPC 03160000 03182FFF 00023000
* RTUTILS 03190000 0319DFFF 0000e000
* SETUPAPI 031A0000 0322DFFF 0008e000
* RASAPI32 03230000 03262FFF 00033000
* RASMAN 03270000 03280FFF 00011000
* TAPI32 03290000 032B1FFF 00022000
* COMCTL32 032C0000 03343FFF 00084000
* SHLWAPI 03350000 033B5FFF 00066000
* DHCPCSVC 033C0000 033D8FFF 00019000
* winrnr 03880000 03887FFF 00008000
* rasadhlp 03890000 03894FFF 00005000
* SSNETLIB 04040000 04054FFF 00015000
* SSNMPN70 04090000 04095FFF 00006000
* security 043B0000 043B3FFF 00004000
* msafd 04850000 0486DFFF 0001e000
* wshtcpip 048B0000 048B6FFF 00007000
* SSmsLPCn 04940000 04946FFF 00007000
* mswsock 049D0000 049E1FFF 00012000
* msv1_0 04A30000 04A50FFF 00021000
* CRYPT32 04A60000 04AE6FFF 00087000
* MSASN1 04B10000 04B1FFFF 00010000
* rsabase 04F40000 04F62FFF 00023000
* CLBCATQ 05280000 0530EFFF 0008f000
* SQLOLEDB 05310000 05382FFF 00073000
* MSDART 05390000 053AEFFF 0001f000
* comdlg32 053B0000 053EDFFF 0003e000
* SHELL32 053F0000 05635FFF 00246000
* MSDATL3 05640000 05654FFF 00015000
* oledb32 05CE0000 05D45FFF 00066000
* OLEDB32R 05D50000 05D5FFFF 00010000
* xpstar 05DE0000 05E26FFF 00047000
* SQLRESLD 05E30000 05E36FFF 00007000
* SQLSVC 05E40000 05E56FFF 00017000
* ODBC32 05E60000 05E91FFF 00032000
* odbcbcp 05EA0000 05EA5FFF 00006000
* W95SCM 05EB0000 05EBBFFF 0000c000
* SQLUNIRL 10000000 1002CFFF 0002d000
* WINSPOOL 05EC0000 05EDDFFF 0001e000
* MPR 05EE0000 05EEFFFF 00010000
* SHFOLDER 05EF0000 05EF7FFF 00008000
* odbcint 061C0000 061D5FFF 00016000
* NDDEAPI 061E0000 061E6FFF 00007000
* SQLSVC 061F0000 061F5FFF 00006000
* xpstar 06200000 06208FFF 00009000
* xplog70 06AA0000 06AB1FFF 00012000
* xplog70 06AC0000 06AC3FFF 00004000
* xpsqlbot 06AD0000 06AD5FFF 00006000
* SQLFTQRY 09200000 09231FFF 00032000
* impprov 094E0000 094F8FFF 00019000
* DBNETLIB 09A80000 09A8EFFF 0000f000
* SQLOLEDB 09BD0000 09BDEFFF 0000f000
* sqlvdi 09C20000 09C2BFFF 0000c000
* dbghelp 07BE0000 07C94FFF 000b5000
*

Any idea ?Can you install SP4? this KB seems to indicate this is fixed in SP4: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821741/en-us?spid=2852&sid=1070

What's in the SQL Server log file just before the dump?|||Is there any workaround other than upgrading to SP4. as SQL Server crashing daily twise and SP4 upgrade testing will take atleast a week time.|||I don't have a workaround for you, sorry. Maybe PSS could suggest one if you call them.|||As suggested only MS PSS can give more idea why the stack dump is created. It is better to proceed that way to resolve this issue and also SP3 for SQL2000 is no more supported, you have to test and upgrade to SP4 for SQL.