I received this same message on Monday (took me 6 hours to fix) and then again
Wednesday.
I can stop it if I remove my sound card (which has nothing to do with what the
Microsoft article states).

The problem is with my software somewhere, I reloaded windows, and everything
else on my machine and still get the error.  I can fix it but then after I
restart my machine (after fixing the problem) it comes back.  I think it has to
do with plug & play because after I get the message and go into safe mode, I
notice that all my sound card devices show up in duplicate.

If anyone else knows a fix or something else to try I would be interested.
(I also tried it with another hard drive and it works fine, can reboot with no
problems)

Cathy

Pete Tremblay wrote:

>  Hello ,
>   When I try to start Win95A I get this message " While initializing device
> IOS :
>  Error : an I/O subsystem driver failed to load . Either a file in the
> .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt , or the system is low on memory . "
>   A floppy was left in the drive on startup an I'm not sure what is on it
> except the name of it . " Drvspace "  Can anyone tell me the best place to
> start ? I can get Windows to load in safe mode . The system is a Intel 233MMX
> , Intel Anchorage TX M/B , 64MB PC100 SDRAM DIMM  8ns . Maxtor Diamondmax 3.2
> HD
> Thanks for any help !
>                                                             Pete Tremblay
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