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by bscben

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Recently, I was installing a PC at a company location and had to install a external modem for the user. After loading and rebooting, I am coming up with a "Cannot load mmsound.drv" error and the system shuts down. When the system restarts, it wants to start in Safe Mode, but I cannot remove the modem from here. I tried to copy the same file from another machine, to no avail and also tried to REM out the statement in the SYSTEM.INI file, but I get the Blue Screen of Death and the system hangsup. Any suggestions on rectifying this issue?

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by red dragoon

Which OS is it?
Do you have the cab files installed locally?

Make sure you have the installation disks or CD.

Find the location of mmsound.drv file.

Boot into DOS mode and extract the file to the directory.

C:\extract /a mmsound.drv /l

Good luck.

by ryasth

This file is supposed to be in the C:\windows\system folder. If it is not I would suggest either extracting it or copying it from another system. Or if you are running Win98 you can restore the registry so that it doesn't recognize this file as a start up device driver, then reinstall once windows starts up. Using the DOS command of scanreg you can restore the registry.

Good luck,
Keith.

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