re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 4:14 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Shane
(2 messages posted)
Ok, I'm getting desperate here and any help I could get I would be extremely grateful
for. I've tried to include as much information as possible.
Last night WinXP was running very slow and locking up, which isn't too unusual as
I had a thumbnailed window with some large vid files open and a few other programs
running. I probably hadn't rebooted in a day or so either. I tried to restart but
it just kept locking up so I manually powered down, waited a few seconds, and powered
it back up. As I recall, the last message that flashed on the screen was that my
cordless mouse was low on batteries. On rebooting the black WinXP logo loaded, stayed
up for an unusually long time, and then restarted. This time the "Windows failed
loading on a previous attempt" blah-blah screen came up. Have tried load normally,
last known good config, and safe mode. All just loop back into a reboot. Safe mode
loading stops with mup.sys before rebooting. I have an OEM Windows XP so I haven't
been able to use the Windows console to try and repair anything. I originally thought
it might be a problem with the master boot record, but that seems to check out ok
as far as I can tell.
Today I have tried switching the RAM into a new slot, changing BIOS settings, removing
my AGP card, and replacing my cordless mouse and keyboard with corded PS2 ones (all
from suggestions I've read on here). Nothing has worked. I'm assuming it's a problem
with the driver after mup.sys, but I don't know what that is and even if I did how
to repair it or bypass it without the Windows console. I have a suspicion that it's
something to do with my AGP card because I have been having a very odd problem the
past 5 months or so (and I bought my AGP card, a Raedon 9200, about 8 months ago)
which involves the monitor apparently losing it's signal suddenly and without warning.
It only seems to happen when I'm actively using AOL Instant Messager (but I can't
say for sure) and I think audio output stops at the same time (but again, I can't
say that for sure). Tried updating the vidcard drivers a while back but that didn't
seem to stop the problem. The only way I get around the problem is to manually turn
off the power and turn it back on.
The only other odd thing that happened is that last night right after the mup.sys
problem started, I turned off the computer power and was going to call it a night
and about 20 seconds later, the computer turned on by itself. I've never had that
happen before and I don't even think it has that capability. Problem with the power
supply?
I'm running this system:
AMD Athlon XP processor 2000+ (1.67 GHz)
VIA KM 266
80 GB HDD
512 MB DDR (PC 2100)
AC '97 Audio
S3 ProSavage8 (integrated) [Radeon 9200 in AGP slot]
I've added the Raeon card, a cordless keyboard and optical mouse (using the PS2 ports),
and a printer/scanner since I've had the computer.
This is extremely frustrating and I need advice!
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