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grumpyolddude · 12-01-2004, 09:51 PM

I've inherited a Gateway pc with a 1.4ghz Athlon and WindowsME. When I got it, the system would not boot, and I do not have the original Gateway system disks.
I pulled the hard drive (20g Maxtor) and slaved it to another pc. I scanned and found 38 viruses, several of which could not be cleaned. After quarantining and deleting, the Gateway still would not boot. I decided to get drastic.
I've bumped the RAM to 384mg (1-256 of pc133 sdram + 1-128 of pc133 sddram), I replaced the maxtor with a 20g Samsung and an 80g samsung. I'm using the on-board S3 graphics and a Nightingale PCI sound card. I put WinXP home on the system and it ran great. However, I don't have an license for the copy I used, so I formatted and decided to try WinME, since it was the original OS on the system.
It has taken me two days to get to the point where I am writing this on my newly rescued system. What should have been a simple install has been a plague of restarts, reboots, re-formats, and regurgitations. ON every boot-up, the system locks and when I strike ctrl/alt/del I see the same thing: "msgsrv32 not responding" . When I end that task, the system finishes booting... slowly. And every command is responded to... slowly.
At one point, I said "to hell with it!" I formatted and tried to install Win98, but it kept locking up when it reached "setting up plug-and-play devices". So, I went back to ME and keep having the same problems.

MY QUESTION (finally): What the heck is "msgsrv32"? Is it critical? Can I make it stop trying to load? Can I fix it so it loads properly? Is it related to why the system responds so slowly?

BTW: I've gone to the Gateway website and downloaded the updated drivers and such for the system. Ive downloaded the Windows critical updates. I'm going to put Zone Alarm and AGV antivirus on the system. This is intended as a first system Christmas gift (hey... we do what we can, y'know. Besides, it won't be a gaming or multi-media machine).

I've tried to provide all of the pertinent info. Any help out there? Thanks!

12-01-2004, 09:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
grumpyolddude Deliberately unfocused Location: Amazon.com and CDBaby	"msgsrv32 not responding" in WinME I've inherited a Gateway pc with a 1.4ghz Athlon and WindowsME. When I got it, the system would not boot, and I do not have the original Gateway system disks. I pulled the hard drive (20g Maxtor) and slaved it to another pc. I scanned and found 38 viruses, several of which could not be cleaned. After quarantining and deleting, the Gateway still would not boot. I decided to get drastic. I've bumped the RAM to 384mg (1-256 of pc133 sdram + 1-128 of pc133 sddram), I replaced the maxtor with a 20g Samsung and an 80g samsung. I'm using the on-board S3 graphics and a Nightingale PCI sound card. I put WinXP home on the system and it ran great. However, I don't have an license for the copy I used, so I formatted and decided to try WinME, since it was the original OS on the system. It has taken me two days to get to the point where I am writing this on my newly rescued system. What should have been a simple install has been a plague of restarts, reboots, re-formats, and regurgitations. ON every boot-up, the system locks and when I strike ctrl/alt/del I see the same thing: "msgsrv32 not responding" . When I end that task, the system finishes booting... slowly. And every command is responded to... slowly. At one point, I said "to hell with it!" I formatted and tried to install Win98, but it kept locking up when it reached "setting up plug-and-play devices". So, I went back to ME and keep having the same problems. MY QUESTION (finally): What the heck is "msgsrv32"? Is it critical? Can I make it stop trying to load? Can I fix it so it loads properly? Is it related to why the system responds so slowly? BTW: I've gone to the Gateway website and downloaded the updated drivers and such for the system. Ive downloaded the Windows critical updates. I'm going to put Zone Alarm and AGV antivirus on the system. This is intended as a first system Christmas gift (hey... we do what we can, y'know. Besides, it won't be a gaming or multi-media machine). I've tried to provide all of the pertinent info. Any help out there? Thanks!