A customer had this problem before and I reinstalled windows to fix it (Windows Me). Now they have had the same error occur. This time I tried the fix located
HEREI was unable to replace the system.ini and win.ini files. So I tried just using the selective startup in msconfig and having it NOT load system.ini. For some reason the computer seems to be working just fine now. Sound, video, internet etc. all is working. Can anyone tell me why this is possible?