re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 10:46 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Randy
(1 messages posted)
Agreed, I think we are suffering from a "shoot the messenger" mentality because mup.sys
is simply the last item listed when things go sour. In my case, I disabled quiet
AND quick boot options in BIOS. After that, lo-and-behold, my RAM beeped a failure
code during POST and showed only 20MB system RAM when 512 was physically installed.
System booted fine following install of new RAM. BUT, the caveat is that I still
had to reinstall XP and all apps following the successful boot because the bad RAM
corrupted many files during its failure process...several installed apps (like Office)
won't run, and several Windows apps (like calculator, help center, IE) won't run
either.
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 10:46 am, David wrote:
>Motherboard died so replaced with new - froze on boot.
>According to safe mode it crashed in/after mup.sys
>Windows XP obviously had to load new drivers for the new motherboard and I thought
>that was the problem.
>But it was a disabled BIOS ACPI on the new motherboard that caused it!
>
>I read through all these excellent messages.
>Re-enabled ACPI.
>Windows XP settled down to the new motherboard.
>
>Noted one thing though...
>MUP.sys was not only the last entry to run before it used to crash, but it was also
>the last entry listed in Safe Mode when I got it working - i.e. there were no more
>entries to come before the desktop came up.
>
>Would be more logical for MS Safe Mode to list each process before it attempted
it
>instead of listing it after success, and not to leave any step unlisted.
>
>mup.sys indeed gets a bad reputation here.
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