re: General solution to this problem??!!
Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 5:30 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Sguilly
(2 messages posted)
First off Colby thanks for you post as it fixed my problem.
"Boot from CD... hit f5 (hidden shortcut) when windows blue install starts and it
says 'hit f6'
Choose "Advanced Conf... Power " system"
The problem for me being, I needed to change my OS from W2k3 to XP due to video display
problems with a new digital TV receiver card. Easy process I thought but after
rebooting to finish the install the machine kept rebooting with the MUP.SYS file
being the last file shown in the safety mode boot. I am sure this was not file causing
the problem as there was HDD access for 5 seconds after this was displayed then the
reboot.
The strange thing about all of this was I could install XP onto anther HDD using
the same machine but if I tried to ghost this onto the other HDD that I wanted to
use it with it would go into the whole constant looping process again.
After trawling through the posts in this forum yours (2nd one I tried) was the resolution
that allowed me to install on the HDD that I originally could not.
Once again thanks
Sguilly
On Thursday, April 8, 2004 at 12:44 am, colby wrote:
>Update to my last post: symptoms appear after upgrading processors or according
to
>other users when system hardware changes take place, power usage is changed .. or
>randomly
>
>---------------
>My power supply died hard. I tried a new one .. and it sort of worked but wouldn't
>post. I left it off for two hours, and it worked perfectly with the new power supply,
>old one is still totally dead.
>
>My theory is this --- the change in hardware .. that people experiences changes
voltages,
>and on systems with aging or underpowered supplies, this leads to the problem? Maybe?
>Now it can't just be power related because windows still won't load with the new
>high-end power supply. But I did fix it, as I'm now typing from windows --- Here
>is what I did:
>
>Step 1: flash bios to newest version
>Step 2: try disabling onboard things
>Step 3: remove every optional component in my system
>Step 4: Boot from CD to repair -- realize I can't boot from the CD even.. it hangs
>during setup
>Step 5: Insert new blank hard drive, flash, format everything, change ram, different
>windows install cd
>
>wtf? I must have a faulty new CPU (nope)
>None of these things work
>
>Finally...
>Boot from CD... hit f5 (hidden shortcut) when windows blue install starts and it
>says 'hit f6'
>Choose "Advanced Conf... Power " system
>(must specifically specify this or it doesn't work)
>Note that ACPI uniprocessor pc, is actually for a dual machine with only one processor
>installed. You want the one with ACPI spelled out. (remember the first time I did
>my power supply crapped it self, the second time it worked!)
>
>Then start to setup windows..it doesn't hang! so choose to repair the installation.
>It asks for drivers, so I have to burn them on a cd with a friends computer. A
few
>mins later it bombed with a very odd error box.. and I had to restart.. The next
>time it picked up where it left off and worked.
>
>Then I got back to windows as usual, but it said that I must activate to logon.
Well,
>I can't setup the network settings to connect to the net, so I have to activate
over
>the phone. 1800 # is disconnected or full..
>So I have to dial the LONG DISTANCE #.. and then.. painstakinly read this massive
>number to the assitant. then she reads back this ridiculously long number.
>(note to microsoft, a 500-bit install id does not protect you from hackers, they
>are not using brute force, it only annoys your customers)
>
>I think about giving the nice support girl a giant piece of my mind, but remember
>working in tech support, and know inside that she has nothing to do with my pain.
>
>Then I'm in windows.. Logged in. I go to windows update. Can't update, system time
>is wrong. I go to internet time update. Can't update time, date is wrong. I go
>to my trustly calendar, its april 8th since its 2 am. I set my date from the 7th
>to the 8th. I update my time.. I go back to windows update.
>43 critical updates to install, since it reverted me to pre-SP1, and some of my
apps
>don't work.. But all in all, i'm back in action. Go .. turn off system restore,
and
>all the other crap. Install SP1.(just click next, it'll eventually tell you it
can't
>install all 43 updates at once)
>
>Get ready to wait a long damn time for the updates. If you're at a university expect
>to get a virus that's being broadcast to your subnet during this period.. so if
you
>have sp1 and updates on a cd.. do that, rather than install over the net, cause
you're
>vulnerable again now.
>
>Next time do this: http://www.iamnotageek.com/articles.php?aid=12&page=1
>So sp1/2 is on your source cd.
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