re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 3:58 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dilly
(1 messages posted)
Ok, Heres the thing...
I read the whole thread above when i encountered my mup problem and tried almost
every fix to no avail. There are a couple of differences that may be of not though...
First, this problem started half way through a game of BOTF on the M$ gaming zone.
The whole PC locked and i had to cold boot. before the checkdisk came on however
my PC decided to reboot itself again which brought me to the safe mode boot option
screen. after chosing boot in safe mode the files being loaded would flash past until
it gets to the MUP at which point there is no hang no delay just a reboot and i
get back to the safe mode boot options. I have not installed any new hardware in
the last 6 months (since i bought the pc) so all the talk of it being a hardware
configuration change causing the problem is I think inaccurate. Having done some
research and talking to several friends we finally came to the conclusion that either
the processor or the HD were shot. so...
I changed HD to one taken directly from a working machine and connected it in place
of the 'suspect'. (This hard drive has been used to test problems on my PC before
and has never had a problem booting in my PC). No joy, same reboot at mup.sys. and
upon transfering the HD back to the original machine i found that it worked without
a hitch. ODD
so. I tried the repair from CD but the reboot happened after loading fat files.
I did manage to get to the C: propt by trying the 'push F5 during setup' that someone
sugested earlier however the way it got there was weird. when i pushed f5 a screen
came p saying it couldnt detect the type of pc or i had chosen to manually define
my PC type. I had 2 options 'standard PC with i486' and 'other'. selecting 'Other'
caused it to ask me to insert a floppy with the PC definition on it (which i dont
have and cant find). So i chose the standard option and !presto! repair mode.
so. i disabled mup and as many have found mup makes no difference it just reboots
on the previous file. I think the conclusion that it has nothing to do with mup is
correct. It is also nothing to do with anything on the hard drive. It has to be something
in the bios, or hardware. After doing much swapping i have come to the conclusion
that if it is hardware it is the processor (its the only bit i havent swapped).
I think i have tried every setting in the bios with no results however im sure i
havent tried all combinations of settings. The last thing to try before i bin the
pc and go and get a new one is to do a virus check from a bootable disk and check
the boot sector (and even the bios if possible) to make sure it has nothing to do
with any eroneous material on my PC.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 9:12 pm, Brian wrote:
>If you have read any of my problems, (computer hangs all of the time) then you should
>know all about the problem. I booted it today, (still not fixed) into safe mode.
>As you might know, Windows XP safe mode boot tells you whats going on. When it got
>to Mup.sys, it seems to have stopped responding. None of the lights on the keyboard
>work. Nothing changes on the monitor. BUT, I can hear the clicking of the hard drive,
>and the little hard driver light is on.
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