Boot up Win95, go into any application and the sytem hangs. Hit Ctl Alt Del and get msgrsv32(not responding). End this task. Can move around for a while, but my system usually crashes or hangs and I have to cold boot. Problem started after installing Netscape 4.6 without uninstalling Netscape 4.5 first (per README.TXT). I have: 1. uninstalled all relatively new software, including Netscape 2. removed all startup apps 3. run scan disk, defrag and checked for viruses 4. checked system resources (85% +) 5. started in safe mode - prob still exists 6. there is no sound card/blaster 7. ample hard disk space Not sure how to proceed. Any suggestions?? Thanks in advance! jim running on a Dell Dim 233 II, 32 meg

Jim, We were having a similiar problem with some PC's here. We are on a NT network and after a user would type in their password to login the system would sort of hang for up to 2-3 minutes. If I did a ctl alt delete at that point it would say Msgsrv32 not responding. All our PC's have McAfee. If we unistalled McAfee it would boot/login normal, so I thought it was McAfee. What it actually ended up being was that there was a set path line in the autoexec.bat file that had something to do with Compaq's DMI utility. Reming that line out took care of the problem. Try renaming your autoexec.bat file to soemthing else and see if the problem goes away.

I had the same problem. Running an AMDK2-400 processor and Win95 wouldn't start. In addition, my bios would hang when i tried to access the peripherals section. Since I had bought a barebones kit with the CPU installed, I figured the motherboard settings were correct. It turns out that four of the CPU selection jumbers on the motherboard were backwards. On-On-Off-Off instead of Off-Off-On-On. This fixed my problems. Check your jumper settings if you bought a clone.

First of all, i will like to thanks Jim for what he has been doing. Well i have a very similar problem to the problem that Jim was having. The only difference between my problem and Jim is that I have win98 and that i renamed my autoexec.bat and the problem has not gone way.

I have 2 pc at home (one a PIII 500, and the other a AMD 350, both running Win98) I have gotten the same problem with both pc when installing new network cards. I have had the problem with PCI network cards and USB adapters. It seems to have something to do with the drivers but I have not been able to figure out the problem yet. I am looking for updated drivers, I have a feeling that it is not limited to just network cards that cause the problem, but I will let you know if I resolve the problem with the new drivers.

this didn't help me but does contian some info on the msgsrv32 program. check this web site: http://www.windrivers.com/tech/tips/Mar99/index3.htm

i'm similiar problems and i have Win95. i found out that i had the problem with my Msgsrv32 when i put a music CD into my CDrom drive, my computer froze for a long time then told me the Msgsrv32 isn't responding. can anyone help?