re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 10:06 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry Elie
(2 messages posted)
OK, Mine is just different enough to kill a few theories.
1. P4 1.8 GHz (Not AMD)
2. Dual Boot with ME on s SECOND DRIVE (yes, ME boots fine-- hardware must be basically
OK)
3. Microsoft doesn't have a clue (support told me to back up the HD and then call
back--I did using a 3rd party ME package that let me read the NTFS drives) They kept
INSISTING ON RUNNING WITH JUST ONE IDE DEVICE FOR ONE BOOT! ***HINT*** AND told
me that even if they knew the answer, it wasn't the operating system. Hmm....
4. Recovery console DID boot off the CD-- found errors on the HD, Checkdisk /r fixed
them-- no, it didn't boot
5. Repair boot record and Repair MBR didn't work either.
6. Problem was percipitated by addition of a new bigger HD... BIOS insisted on booting
from the fastest (NEW) drive running MAXBLAST3... I think that wrote something to
the drive that SHOULD have been booting. The new drive was 0 on controller 1, but
AMI decided it really desearved to start; thanks Maxtor. Yes, I got a brief roll
on the monitor with an IDE error. No, the power supply is not overloaded (ME works,
remember?).
7. Perhaps key. Perhaps a red-herring. I am not 'really' running service pack
2; I uninstalled from the XP 'roll-back' when I saw that you can't disable the upgrade
warnings. I think it's in a mixed mode?
AMI BIOS, ASROCK G Pro. Very stable for 2 years.
Now that I've read this thread, I've got more things to try. Reload is a last resort.
On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 1:05 am, duckewla wrote:
> I believe this could be a solution, especially if you are running on a budget mobo
>or a old motherboard. I have not tried re-setting the BIOS but it did occur to me
>that it was the one thing i forgot to test, that is the boot sequence...it doesnt
>make sense, but that was the thing that i actually changed.
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>re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
>Thursday, February 12, 2004 at 1:00 am
>Posted by Phychotron (1 messages posted)
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>I too came in search of MUP.sys problems.. i had an odd situation. I installed some
>used memory and i got an error saying to load the DLL's for the kernel... so i was
>like "man, that's lame" so i switched the memory around, and got a different error.
>could not load windows (i forgot the reason) so then i took all the memory out,
and
>put my 1 stick back into slot 1, and it started, but gave me the mup.sys routine.
>so i came her via google and tried all the problems... the switching the memory
around
>had already been done, but i tried again.. no luck.. disabled mup, no luck, unplugged
>USB devices, no luck, took out pci cards, no luck.... finaly reset bios defaults...
>worked fine.. i then realized that i had changed the bios settings earlier (to boot
>from cd first)... and didnt change it back. "Go team BIOS!"
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