{RESOLVED}out of memory message

[paulpineo]

Hey folks, how's things? I receive an "out of memory" error while trying to run winamp and realplayer. I'm using a 233Mhz AMD K-6 machine with Windows 98. Nothing is running in the background. Even if we close everything but Explorer and Systray, we still get the following error message: "MMSYSTEM007 There is not enough memory for this task. Quit one or more programs, and then try again." System resources are 88%, the machine has 192MB RAM and 3 Gigs free space out of 8 Gigs total space. Windows is managing virtual memory. What am I missing? Thanks.

Paul

 

[gsbham]

if you are using two memory cards, take one out and try the system with one card. then try the other card.

 

[paulpineo]

I may give that a try. Unfortunately, I don't know what the heck I'm doing. I usually take my machine into shops for hardware service. But I'll open the case and see what I got. Thanks for the reply.

Paul in Tucson

 

[TonyKlein]

Hi Paul,

I found two articles that may or may not be of help:

http://www.wireready.com/tech support/FAQ/completefaqs/cooledit/faq/shared/mmsys07.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q178677

Good luck,

 

[Rollin' Rog]

Here is an MS link that appears to address it. I don't know if I would follow their sequence of removing all other players first or first try to remove and reinstall the multimedia components from Add/remove>windows setup>multimedia.

But good luck with it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q178677

 

[paulpineo]

Thanks guys! Big help!

Paul

 

[paulpineo]

Hey folks, your help did it.

I went to the Microsoft help sites you suggested and tried some of their recommendations. In the end, I believe that uninstalling RealPlayer8 Basic, as the help site suggested, fixed the problem. Thanks again.

Paul