re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 2:19 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peter J
(2 messages posted)
Okay folks I too joined the muppets club with a non-booting XP Pro machine. Reformats,
new installs, new HDD's did not help. Disable mup.sys did not help. It wasn't his
fault. It's a hardware issue that stops the bootup. Odd thing is Win98 ran like
a champion on this box.
What fixed my ASUS A7V266-E, AMD Athlon1600+, 512 Mb DDR was reflashing BIOS "AND",
this is the key. Reset defaults in BIOS. Simply reflashing does NOT change any
settings. What I discovered was that the RAM was bad. Or so it seemed. I used
the windiag.exe from Microsoft. It tested the RAM as 100% bad. Before I ripped
it out and demanded my money back I reflashed BIOS and reset defaults. I also set
suspend to ram at S3 and disabled boot virus check. At this point I am reluctant
to change it back. So after that the RAM tested good. I reinstalled XP and SP2.
All is good. In fact I'm using it now. Not content to leave well enough alone
I added my second HDD and set the WD HDD as a master. No boot. Remove the second
HDD no boot. Remove the master jumper on the WD HDD and back in business. So mup.sys
rears it's little head if anything is amiss with your hardware. The WD HDD jumper
does it, so does incorrect BIOS settings. If I learn any more I'll post it here.
Thanks to all previous posters who helped me sort this &(*^^ thing out. PJ.
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