This is the general maya crash error. I could just tell you to use the search function, but this may be a bit different.
If you are using a radeon card, then try turning off triple buffering in your open GL settings.
The problems I have had like that all happened during the splash screen, so this may be different. All I know is Maya is crashing (and probably due to hardware).
Also try changing the maya folder in my documents to maya_bak or something to create new preferences, then load your scene.
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