re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Friday, December 3, 2004 at 11:28 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave Aitken
(1 messages posted)
I had this problem this afternoon and, like many others here was beginning to despair
of a solution. However, it would seem that the symptom is not in any way related
to the problem.
If XP will not boot (and, as in my case, you cannot even get the the installation
CD to install) CHECK YOUR HARDWARE. In my case booting simply hung as AGP440.sys
was being installed. Removing that meant it stalled at MUP.SYS. The problem eventually
turned out to be a USB Multicard Reader which had had a problem reading a card and
was permanently in read mode. Disconnecting the reader solved the problem.
It would seem that this error indicates a hardware rather than a software fault,
so the first thing to do is disconnect your USB devices one by one and then any other
external hardware you you may have. Finally, you may have to start removing and re-installing
any PCI cards but that would be last not first unless you noticed a problem with
them before the crash.
I hope this helps.
On Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 7:32 pm, adam wrote:
>well, i just found one solution to this thing...i've had this problem on 2 computers
>now and tried all other sugestions in this thread...the answer for me in both cases
>was acually the IDE CALBE!!!! i have no idea why but somehow that was the cuase
for
>me. i replaced the cable with one from a known working system and it worked
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