Wave Mixer Driver

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Under my device manager, I'm seeing the following message for my

Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer

The driver for this device might be corrupted, or your system may be running
low on memory or other resources. (Code 3)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

This problem resolves itself when I reboot. No need to re-install drivers
and disabling and enabling does not help. Is the problem a lack of RAM as I
am running XP Home with 128 MEG of RAM. I plan on purchasing more RAM in
the next couple of days, but if I have to re-boot every time this occurs,
it's going to be a pain as I've discovered that XP takes what seems an
eternity to boot up.
 
Hi,

Check the page files, it may be corrupted.

Problems with Virtual Memory

It may sometimes happen that the system gives "out of
memory" messages on trying to load a program, or gives a
message about Virtual Memory space being low. Possible
causes of this are The setting for Maximum size of the
page file is too low, or there is not enough disk
space free to expand it to that size.


The page file has become corrupt, possibly at a bad
shutdown. In the Virtual Memory settings, turn off Virtual
Memory (check box), exit, shut down the machine, then
reboot.
Delete PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive if it exists on more
than just C:), turn Virtual Memory on again, and then
reboot to bring it into use.


The page file has been put on a different drive without
leaving a minimal amount on C:.


There is trouble with third party software. In particular,
if the message happens at shutdown, suspect a problem with
Symantec's Norton Live update, for which there is a fix
posted here. If it happens at startup and the machine has
an Intel chipset, the message may be caused by an early
version (before version 2.1) of Intel's "Application
Accelerator."
Uninstall this and then get an up-to-date version from
Intel's web site.


Possibly there is trouble with the drivers for IDE hard
disks; in Device Manager, remove the IDE ATA/ATAPI
controllers (main controller) and reboot for Plug and Play
to start over.


With an NTFS file system, the permissions for the root
directory of the drive where the page file is must
give "full Control"to SYSTEM. If not, there is likely to
be a message at boot that the system is "unable to create
a page file."

Hope it helps.

Peter
 
Peter,

I don't know what I did wrong (it must have been me) but when I
implemented your pagefile solution, not only did it NOT fix the
problem, I was unable to completely boot, nor was I able to get back
into the control panel to try to find out what was going on because I
could not open any applications at all.

===========================================================
WARNING: If you are going to make changes to the paging, be very
careful...I screwed up (now that I've thought about what I did) and
had to go through the pain of re-installing.
===========================================================

Subsequently I had to do a full system recovery. I haven't had this
error since I did it, but I would suspect I shall be re-encountering
the issue very soon.
 
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