re: Mup.sys but not at fault
Sunday, November 14, 2004 at 1:41 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by planet3tech
(1 messages posted)
Had a similar problem as some listed in this forum: WinXP would get to the boot screen,
and then reboot a few seconds into it. I couldn't boot into any safe mode (it hung
at the mup.sys stage), and when I booted from a floppy or CD, I couldn't find my
C:/ drive. Did all the normal things...removing PCI cards, moving RAM, unplugging
USB devices...nothing worked.
Finally, I resolved to reinstall, but rethought when, after I booted from the XP
disk, I got a message that my machine was already in the process of upgrading (don't
know why). Tried the continue/finish upgrade, but that didn't work: I got a blue
screen with an unmountable_boot_volume message and some stop numbers. However,
that message was progress. I booted again from the XP disk, and chose the exit without
installing/upgrading XP. That worked....The normal reinstall files loaded from the
CD, and I got to the expected install/repair setup selection screen. I chose R to
repair it, but at the DOS prompt, I typed in chkdsk /p and entered it. It immediately
started working hard on the first 50% of the drive and took a few minutes. Got a
message that it was checking more or recovering. After reaching the 50% mark, it
moved fairly quickly. When it finished, and returned to the DOS prompt, I typed
in fixboot and entered it. Then entered Yes (for was I sure?). It worked a second
and reported it recreated boot info successfully. I exited, and it rebooted into
XP like nothing had ever gone wrong.
Hope this helps at least one or two of you.
On Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 1:46 pm, John Neville wrote:
>I've had exactly the same problem as most other posters to this thread:
>I installed a new ALI chipset USB 2.0 PCI card, and when I rebooted, the system
kept
>rebooting after loading Windows XP for about 20 seconds. I went into safe mode,
it
>appeared to stop at mup.sys, but the hard drive was still going, and it eventually
>loaded up Safe Mode Windows.
>I removed the offending PCI card but no luck. The only way to fix the problem for
>me (I tried adjusting all the various motherboard settings that have been suggested,
>and I have a 550W very high quality (£70) power supply, top of the range) was to
>use Automated System Recovery. I put in the floppy disk that this had created for
>me the last time I backed up the system using it, and it automatically found and
>installed my saved version of XP, and everything worked fine. I'm now deliberating
>whether to risk putting the bloody PCI card back in to see if it works okay, but
>I think I'll just learn to live without it!
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | | | | |  | re: Mup.sys but not at fault (planet3tech: Sun, Nov 14, 2004, 1:41 pm) |
| |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum
|
|
