system hangs on boot at text windows loading screen
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at 11:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mr. Brown
(2 messages posted)
OK I have a special situation that seems to shed some light on this problem. I am
setting up a common image for our campus to use across multiple hardware platforms.
I am doing a sysprep then copying the image to a network volume then porting the
image to a new configuration this has worked in the past windows 2000 pre sp2 now
that I am attempting this with windows 2000 SP4 I am getting the dreaded hang at
mup.sys error (or whatever depending on the last driver loaded).... this is after
the 4th suscessful move. The machine that is choking is a 1 ghz INTEL PIII (sorry
this is not an AMD problem). And for those farmilar yes I have imported the universal
disks registry files.
The issue is a result of a change in the windows 2000 bootloader between SP2 and
SP4 (and at some point in XP). There is some kind of bug that does not hand off the
control to the windows 2000 kernel correctly after some kind of hardware change.
The bootloader seems to have the same issues in XP. It loads the kernel files into
memory, as well as setting, irqs, dmas and i/o values. A change that is made to those
values either either in bios or windows and the loader freezes when it attempts to
move pass control, this is apparent in the fact that the next screen you should see
if all works well is the windows splash screen.
Now I have tried all variations of hardware in the motherboard, including disabling
everything but the essentials, multiple video cards, harddrives, memory, even identical
motherboards (different motherboards work fine). Even a bios upgrade this is a intel
815 motherboard both original and newest bios have been tried. The only common problem
between all these cases is the hardware handling at the point where the bootloader
passes control to the OS. THIS MUST BE ADDRESSED BY WINDOWS. There is a workaround
that we can use in the mean time forcing the system to do a full redetect of plug
and play be some method (moving/changing/removing hardware enough hardware).
Windows must fix this bug, but don't expect them to admit that this problem exists
until they have a fix ready to go. And they are in no rush because if you are changing
you hardware configuration (drastically at they think but even minor changes can
trigger this bug) then you must be trying to steal thier software.
Anyway, if you are reading this and you work for Microsoft FIX THIS PLEASE!! otherwise
I feel your pain.
Mr. Brown
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