re: New motherboard. Won't boot past mup.sys
Sunday, May 8, 2005 at 7:37 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by wade
(2 messages posted)
hi, so what u think is causing the mup.sys prob is the activation part of windows
as ive used a sort deactivation prog that i bought off ebay to stop the windwos asking
for the activation thing , but i suspect it might be that thats actually cause my
pc to stop at mup.sus, but the pc was runniny fine for aobut 4 weeks or so. the xp
disk that i used to install xp was used many times for other computers untill it
was activated to much , so thats why i got tehh deactication tool , it mught also
be that its only started the mup.sys prob because i added or installed more hardware
of software. oh well i dont no !!!!
if anyone thinks that it is the problem then plese can someone help me .
if i do try to install windows on my sata drive it examines the sata drive and then
seems to freeze or hang. but it examines my ide drive fine , but doesnt boot or get
past the mup.sys prob
im so angry right now, im ready to throw the ocmputer out the window, but icant it
cost me 700 quid .
On Saturday, May 7, 2005 at 8:03 pm, John Orth wrote:
>I just spent three of the most frustrating days in my life fixing this problem.
>It started when my Emachines T2200 (AMD 2200+) blew the motherboard. I replaced
>the original board, an L7VMM2, with an Asus. Of course, everyone on this thread
>knows what happened. It would not boot past mup.sys.
>
>I tried almost everything suggested on this thread, removing USB devices, unplugging
>PCI cards, changing BIOS settings, flashing the BIOS, moving the memory to the other
>slot, getting into recovery console and running chkdsk on the drive, etc. etc. etc.
> Nothng worked.
>
>To make matters worse, the useless Emachines OEM version of Windows is just an imaged
>hard drive, not a proper Windows disk. I had to borrow a real Windows XP disk from
>my daughter.
>
>The computer would work fine to a fresh install of Windows onto a spare hard drive,
>but would fail every time on the original drive.
>
>Ultimately, I got it going by taking my daughter's XP disk, booting to the CD, selecting
>'install Windows', then selecting 'repair an existing Windows installation'.
>The computer works fine now, and I didn't loose any of my files or settings. There
>is still one major glitch however - the Windows disk did not really repair the existing
>copy of Windows. It overwrote it. Now I am getting prompted to activate my copy
>of Windows, which I can't do because the same disk was used on my daughter's computer.
> It looks like I am going to have to buy another Windows disk and install it again
>to solve this problem once and for all.
>
>By the way, I think the culprit in all of this is Microsoft and their stupid product
>activation. They are jerking us around just so they can make 50 gadzillion dollars
>instead of only 48 gadzillion dollars. Allow me to elaborate.
>
>Most OEM PC's do not require Windows to be activated. Microsoft allows them to
circumvent
>the activation process by using a technique referred to as 'System Locked Pre-installation'
>or SLP. This system uses information stored on the BIOS to prevent piracy. At
boot,
>Windows compares this BIOS information to information it has stored. If it matches,
>the PC boots. If it doesn't - mup.sys. This explains why changing the motherboard
>causes this problem. Wonderful for Microsoft, not so wonderful for anyone who uses
>their product.
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