re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 1:58 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by christopher
(1 messages posted)
i've got to remark that this is one of the greatest tech threads i've ever ran across.
i, too, experienced the wackiness that is the mup-pet.sys gone mad. my ultimate
solution was to re-flash my bios.
my situation involved bringing back an OS from a sysprep'd backup. almost identical
hardware except for the motherboard (though the replacement was the same model as
the original), the chip, and the ram...everything else the same. i overlooked one
key component which this post helped me keep in mind within the depths of the myriad
of things with which others have tried in this thread and apparently found success.
i solved my mup.sys Rubik's Cube by flashing the bios to the same version as that
of the backup sysprep image. i should have realized this as a fundamental component
of bringing back an OS from a different motherboard, but if i had, i would never
know the joy of this mup-peteer.sys thread.
thanks to you all and those that take time out of their lives to help others. good
stuff.
:)
~ christopher
On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 6:54 am, Chas wrote:
>OK, I've had the same problem with XP freeze and Safe Mode stall at Mups.sys.
>Final solution was to re-flash the BIOS (downloaded the file from another computer).
>It seems to me that Mups.sys is just the last file shown before XP goes graphic
mode.
>It did the same pause once I resolved the problem. It may be at this point that
it
>does the hardware "head count" to match its security settings aginst the activation
>code.
>Reading through other forums, it appears that XP is highly sensitive to hardware
>instability. In my case, the capacitors on the m/board are swollen which may have
>lead to damaged ROM.
>Apparently, some m/boards reset the BIOS ROM on ESCD; so occasionally a hardware
>change fixes the problem and sometimes it doesn't (like my Epox). It became obvious
>that it was a hardware glitch when Win98 on my second hard drive started to freeze
>as well.
>Because of previous fiddling (made the mistake of deleting "viaagp.sys", so lost
>graphics) I had to do a complete re-install of XP on the main HD; and now she hums
>along better than before. Next freeze and the M/board gets ditched - it's about
3
>or 4 years old.
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