Windows ME

[beaumontboy]

I am running Windows ME on an HP Pavilion with 128 megs of SDRAM (933 MhZ). After years of fairly smooth operation, my system suddenly will not boot up. I turn my machine on and my boot-up progress line only goes about 1/4 of the way accross the screen. Then I get note that says "Rund11 has caused an error in MMSYSTEM. DLL. Rund11 will not close. If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer. I restart and get the same results and the same message. I might add that my cursor disappears and the color on my screen is very drab with a lot of shadowy blacks. No lines or blinks or anything that would make me think that my screen is going out. I know it's an old underpowered machine running an old operating system but it has always satisfied my needs until now. I'm no computer guru so I really need some help. My wife and I use this computer in our business. Do you think it is a software problem or a RAM problem? Thank you so much for your help. I am sending this request on my neighbors computer and he will receive your email and come next door to get me when you all give me the answer. Thank you so much again. Hank in Dallas.

Edited August 7, 2007 by beaumontboy

[gosh]

I believe mmsystem32.dll is the 16 bit sound subsystem in win9x. If you can boot into safe mode, you can try system restore, or disable the sound card in device manager.

-gosh