re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 6:54 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chas
(1 messages posted)
OK, I've had the same problem with XP freeze and Safe Mode stall at Mups.sys.
Final solution was to re-flash the BIOS (downloaded the file from another computer).
It seems to me that Mups.sys is just the last file shown before XP goes graphic mode.
It did the same pause once I resolved the problem. It may be at this point that it
does the hardware "head count" to match its security settings aginst the activation
code.
Reading through other forums, it appears that XP is highly sensitive to hardware
instability. In my case, the capacitors on the m/board are swollen which may have
lead to damaged ROM.
Apparently, some m/boards reset the BIOS ROM on ESCD; so occasionally a hardware
change fixes the problem and sometimes it doesn't (like my Epox). It became obvious
that it was a hardware glitch when Win98 on my second hard drive started to freeze
as well.
Because of previous fiddling (made the mistake of deleting "viaagp.sys", so lost
graphics) I had to do a complete re-install of XP on the main HD; and now she hums
along better than before. Next freeze and the M/board gets ditched - it's about 3
or 4 years old.
On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 7:16 pm, AJ wrote:
>I was having a similar problem in win2000. Keyboard worked fine in BIOS setup,
stopped
>working once win2000 fired up. Couldn't get into safemode, etc. I read an article
>at MS win2000 tech site. In short, the problem was the driver Iomega Zip software/driver
>i loaded was too old.
>The solution given is to go into the Recovery Console and disable IMGATAPI then
enable
>ATAPI SERVICE_BOOT_START. The additional problem in my case is that the Console
>is not loaded and I don't have the install disks so I can load it/use it (and I
don't
>have floppy recovery disks either).
>
>But I thought I'd post this anyway in case it helps someone; the problem for some
>folks may be an old atapi or USB device driver, etc.
>
>
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