re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 9:12 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by colby
(3 messages posted)
I upgraded my Athlon XP 1800+ to a 2400+ and flashed my bios to the newest rev.
Now:
Regular boot to windows: hangs
Safemode: hangs (after mup.sys)
Boot from windows CD: hangs a ways into the setup process -- (same place everytime
no matter what is connected to the system)
I tried every combination of removing hardware/disabling things in the bios and every
trick listed here, no avail.
Did a little research about this and became convinced it was power,ACPI, or HAL related,
or else my new processor is broken.
When starting windows install from the cd.. when it says.. press F6 to load a raid
etc.. press F5.
It will load something that tells you to choose your system type -- I tried many
of these options -- same problem... then I tried: Advanced Configuration Power
....Computer, instead of ACPI Uniprocessor. And it worked! Looking around, many
people with related problems had fixed them by moving to this HAL instead. The setup
will update your system to use the new HAL and everything goes back to normal without
having to re-setup windows.. Perfect!
The Bad news: within minutes my computer shut off, and my power supply is now dead
as a doornail. (another power supply works)
Not sure what this means yet, but I plan to buy a nice power supply. If that fixes
it, great. If it doesn't, I'll try the HAL swap changes to my OS. If that doesn't
work, its time to buy new RAM, MOBO, and processor and see what happens. I will
mix and match the combinations until I find the god damn answer. If there is one,
I will post it here.
If it turns out I can't use this system with winxp anymore, we'll try making this
box a freebsd server.
This is the most god damn mind boggling problem I've had since the early 90's when
computers did crap like this on a regular basis. This kind of stuff may have been
half-acceptable a decade ago, but its just pathetic nowdays.
By my estimation we're about 3 years out from being able to fully switch to *nix
as a desktop OS, and leave this crap behind. Course, just then longhorn will come
out, just in the nick of time, and it will have features I can't live without, and
i'll be stuck with this crap for another 10 years.
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