re: Windows Hangs after Soft Reboot
Friday, May 27, 2005 at 1:44 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23818 messages posted)
I don't think the evidence clearly indicates that "it's reasonable to assume that
either the RAM or the BIOS is at fault."
And the fact that it hangs in safe mode at mup.sys doean't mean much either, that's
where it always hangs if it's going to. I don't have any ideas to offer, but wanted
to suggest that you not get tunnel vision as to the cause. It is a strange one.
On Friday, May 27, 2005 at 12:08 pm, Bo Gusaddy wrote:
>Yesterday my otherwise-stable XP box started hanging at the Windows splash screen,
>but only after a soft reboot, e.g., after choosing "Restart" from the XP shutdown
>menu, or after hitting the reset button on the box. The hang occurs regardless of
>whether I'm booting in Normal Mode or in Safe Mode, and regardless of whether the
>restart was invoked from inside Windows XP or from a DOS program It appears that
>as long as the system boots from a soft reset XP will hang at the splash screen.
>
>Booting in Safe Mode reveals that the last system driver loaded is mup.sys. It would
>appear that XP is hangning while attempting to load a device driver.
>
>The only way Windows will boot is after a cold start (i.e., from a powered-off state).
>
>I've examined the ntbtlog.txt boot log file from a successful (cold) boot but I
see
>no indication that anything is amiss. No boot log is created on a failed boot, which
>means the system is hanging before the initialization of smss.exe.
>
>The last thing I did before this problem started was to install the driver software
>for my Nokia DKU-5 USB interface cable. Since the problem started I have uninstalled
>the driver using the program's own uninstall routine, but the soft reboot hang persists.
>
>As the problem occurs only on a soft reboot it's reasonable to assume that either
>the RAM or the BIOS is at fault. I tested the RAM with one cycle of Memtest86+ but
>no errors came up. I have yet to reset my BIOS defaults, but I'll do that next and
>report back.
>
>In the meantime, I'd appreciate any input anyone may have on the matter. I can post
>the contents of my boot log file if anyone wants to inspect it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Piyono
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