re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gary balkam
(5 messages posted)
Follow up:
Ok, so I changed something or other or rebooted or something, problem came back after
putting in the 733 processor again, and a problem with the system freezing.
Mup was a bad processor, no problems now having changed back to the old 533 I had
origionally,
system lock up, was due to the fan on my Ncida agp card not running, it was seized
or something, soooo I got inventive.. I took the fan from an old power supply, spliced
the wires to a connector that would fit the pins on the card, and taped the fan over
the heat sink where the old fan was. So far, so good, my computer ran all last night
without locking, figure the lock ups were thevideo card overheating.
On Friday, March 31, 2006 at 10:20 am, gary balkam wrote:
>Having had the same problem mup.sys, I started reading.
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>I disabled mup.sys in recovery mode (I could then boot to xp but the system stopped
>responding, usually after being left unused)
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>So read some more: flashed the bios
>same problem (stopped responding) so now i know the bios was not corrupt, it had
>been working for years from the last time I flashed it, so the saved bios was good.
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>Saw someone say they replaced everything except the install disk, cdrom and cables.
> Disk is either good or not.. it works or dont, so that is ok. cables are the same
>thing, they work or dont work.
>soo I dis-connected my cdrom.
>same problem
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>I changed from my used pentium 3, 733, back to the P3 533 I had origionally.
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>NO PROBLEM... but thats not a solution, having saw a couple posts about 2 bad processors?
> Not likely. Its like winning the big lotto prize 2 weeks running.
>besides, it WAS working with the 733 before.
>So, I put it back in.
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>Same problem. (system stopped responding withing minutes, but did boot to windows
>while i was checking system properties) *note* also... for some reason MUP is RUNNING
>(started) again, BUT the system booted into windows... and has been for over a week.
>So power off (reset button) then:
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>Into Bios settings:
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>1) I disabled the numeric processor and enabled SMART drive option. (to see if the
>drive was failing)
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>2) checked that the processor was set for 733, agp at 66 mhz, bus speed at 133 (matching
>the specs of mobo, processor, and ram)
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>3) Selected the 'Halt on all errors' option (assuming if there was a problem the
>system would stop)
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>4) I increased the voltage to +10%
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>5) Saved the changes and exited
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>6) Restart Windows XP home (note... problem was persistatant, I had also tried WinME,
>and Win98 with the same problem occurring.)
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>
>Thus far, the system is running and stable.
>Conclusions: 1) Try disabling the numeric data processor (seemed to work ok before
>though)
>2) Increase the voltage by the max 10% (keep an eye on your system temp, etc)
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>Maybe this fixed it, maybe not. But it hasn't as of yet stopped responding. I
will
>leave it on and see what happens.
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>*note.. cdrom is still disconnected, I rarely use it, I have a cdrw.
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