re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 11:09 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul
(2 messages posted)
Thank you! I've also turned to be a member of the mup-clan. After reading about all
the posts around here, I thoughd it had to be a power problem.
But let's start at the beginning: The son of a friend of mine liked the lights on
my computer, so he turned the PC off and on for a couple of times, te see the lights
burning.
After that I couldn't start windows XP. In safe mode it ended at the famous mup.sys
.
I tried to boot from startup disks (both CD as floppies) without succes. After placing
the HDU in a different computer, the same problem arrised. But in that pc I was able
to boot from CD and do a recovery (after disabling mup.sys of course). After putting
back the HDU in the original PC........... no normal boot.
Desperately, I wiped the OS partition and wanted to do a full recovery with the disk
set provided with the computer.... again no success. The computer halted at the same
part of the installation every time.
Then I started the recovery CD with pressing F5 during the "press F6 to load a raid
etc." message and I choose the only available option. From that moment it seems like
my PC knows it's a PC and it works fine....
So thanks again!
This really worked for me (though I needed all other suggestions mentioned by others
first).
On Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 9:12 pm, colby wrote:
>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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