MSGSRV32

This may help you out, if this is your case.
http://www.novagate.com/~deanday/msgsrv32.html
This is a fix if you have integrated sound. Here at work we have alot of problems with MSGSRV32 not responding, removing and readding the printer fixes this problem.
Good lock - Hope it helps

It's nothing to do with onboard sound seeing as how I've gotten the same error and I use a add-on sound card and not the crappy onborad sound on the motherboard.

The only thing that will solive it for awhile is to re-install windows ... again. :)

Brian Wright
Computer Information Systems student
Terra Community College
Fremont, Ohio

if reinstalling windows aint your thing...you can try to extract the file using the System File Checker utility of Win98:

1. Start | Run...type "sfc" (without the ")

2. choose "extract one file from installation disk"
-type the name of the file msgsrv32.exe and click start

3. where it says "restore from"...type d:\win98 (with the windows 98 cd in the drive)
-where it says "save file in"...type c:\windows\system

After that the file should be restored from the original on the win98 cd

Hope it helps
Joel
jdm.4mg.com

MSGSRV32 errors can certainly be caused by onboard sound but that is not the only cause for the message. Check out Microsoft Knowledge Base articles Q245583, Q188803, Q209321, Q222629. They may help.

Generally, I get this error when Win98 has installed the incorrect version of a device driver. Reinstalling Windows will not help. Find out the model of your video, sound, modem, and any other IO cards (NIC, etc), and go to windrivers.com to find the very latest drivers. Also find you motherboard manufacture and model, and look for updates. The error stated "module " so you don't have a reference for exactly which device is causing the error.

The MSGSRV32 error I have seen before appeared after installing a scanner or printer with Adobe photo deluxe or Adobe type manager as part of the bundled software.
click start, run, type in MSCONFIG in the open box, click on the SYSTEM.INI tab andclick on the (+)next to Boot, edit the line "atmsystem.drv=atm.system.drv" to "system.drv=system.drv" click apply and OK and restart the computer.

Go to system information in system tools.
start system info, got system file checker
and run it.It may solve your problem.If
your file is corrupted, it will aske you
for your windows cd and replace the file.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 98. This
problem was corrected in Windows 98 Second Edition.
If you have the first edition go here to obtain a fix: http://www.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/overview/overview.asp

The only other reason you would experience this problem is with an incompatible MIDI device, or having more than 10 MIDI devices installed at one time.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

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