re: Mup.sys? Solution, winxp sp1
Thursday, April 29, 2004 at 3:51 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by frank
(1 messages posted)
under my BIOS settings, make sure your OS is APCI aware and power mangement is enabled.
On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 6:54 am, Chas wrote:
>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.
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