Well, folks, I have been everywhere. The Dell site was as useful as a chocolate teapot as my disc did not have the file they claimed it would under language ..no setup.exe to be found.

Then I decided Ii could install a Voyetra Turtle Beach Audio prog. that was supplied with my machine but lying dormant.

For one glorious minute I thought I had solved the problem...when up came this MMSYSTEM264. Damn!

Tried my Winamp player..that was MMSYSTEM007

So I googled and found articles devoted to these problems.

The bottom line was that I should go to "Run" and do an SFC and replace a list of.dll files.

I tried this option, but none of the named .dll files appeared.

By now it was 1am and I gave it up as a bad job...removed the Voyetra Turtle Beah prog. from the start up and resigned myself to never hearing my MP3s again.

This pm , I booted up...no little sound icon that tells me I cannot listen to any of my MP3s...tried Winamp...and it played!!

I do not know what has happened or whether it has decided to play today..pure mystery.

This is the Google result I found: I think it may be useful to others and maybe Puta and other experts may comment...I wish I had found those .dll files and also I wish I knew how to relace them!!!

So here Is the Solution (even if I could not make it work)

Multimedia players are becoming as essential as other office automation software. Problems with players, however, sometimes present a convoluted solution. For example, WinAmp gives the following error message:

WinAmp 2 WaveOut plug-in v1.03 error
Please reinstall soundcard drivers
Error code: 7

Windows gives this error message:

MMSYSTEM007: There is not enough memory available for this task. Quit one or more programs then try again.

These messages suggest reinstalling drivers or upgrading memory to fix a no-playback problem. Neither solution will fix the problem. Nor will reinstalling the player. It’s not just WinAmp. Try running Real’s RealOne or Microsoft’s Media Player, for they also fail.

Referring to the player support websites also fails to find a fix. The solution is actually in the error code MMSYSTEM007. Searching for this at Support.microsoft.com yields the Knowledgebase article #Q178677—that is totally unrelated to media players but actually fixes the problem. (It describes a problem with Flight Simulator.)

#Q178677 describes using the System File Checker (SFC) tool that is installed on Windows 98 and above OSes to replace some corrupted files. (SFC allows individual file installs from the Windows CAB files.)

The corruption typically occurs when Internet Explorer crashes or locks up. So replacing WinAmp, RealOne or even WiMP won’t help, since the corrupted files need replacing instead. These files are:

avifile.dll
dciman.dll
dciman32.dll
mciavi.drv
mmsystem.dll
msvidc32.dll
msvideo.dll
msvfw32.dll
wow32.dll
Once replaced using SFC, a warm boot will do the trick and WinAmp, RealOne, and WiMP will play MP3 files again.