re: Mup.sys? Hangs but not? Wha's happening?
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 10:16 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by LMC
(1 messages posted)
Geez... Good to know I'm not the only one screwed by mups.... geez...
OK - system details - Dell Inspiron B130(laptop), XP Pro SP2 - was OEM with XP Home,
2 gigs mem, 60 gb
hard drive, Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 GB wifi card. Lots of software installed - including
(as mentioned
someplace on the web in a Mup.sys post) Roxio products. Use a Logitech wireless
mouse....
Got an iPod for Christmas, installed i-Tunes and it would never run - always "the
program has
encountered an error and needs to shut down" and would do the whole error reporting
thing to Microsoft (fat lot of good THAT does!).... Reinstalled Windows XP Home
and then upgraded (again) to XP Pro SP2.
Of course, lost/locked many files during this process... Annoyance!!!
Anyway, got it all up and running fine - got My 'locked' files back... has been
working fine since. Had an issue
with the wireless "radio" feature of the Intel card not finding any signals, got
it all figured out. Was down for 2 days with that.... But sorted out, and was able
to
get back online. Of course, getting back online means "Windows Automatic Updates"
download...
I don't trust Billy Gates and pals, so I don't auto install the updates.... But
three downloaded last night - the
Maliscious Software Removal Tool (Jan 2008) and two "critical updates".... After
installed, rebooted PC -
no problems... went to bed....
I leave My PC running over night for all spyware, anti-virus and such checking and
updates....
This morning, got online, checked messages... no problems.....
Shut down system and packed up.... No problems....
Came to work, plugged in, powered on... PROBLEMS!!
PC goes into reboot loop.... finally get to the "blue screen of death" and get:
STOP:0X00000ED (0X89DDAC08, 0X000009C....)
Of course, searching the first (00000ED) gets a few hits, but NOTHING comes up when
I throw
X89DDAC08 into the mix.... But I do other searches and come upon this thread (which,
btw, was recommended in a site on the same problem from MPCMAG.COM) and I've been
reading it....
I'm running Dell Diags right now an dit's working hard - testing memeory and all
bit by bit by bit.... But, once
that's done, I'll be pulling the USB mouse and trying to reboot... Then I'll try
swapping mem sticks... but as
they're in there regularly, I doubt that's the problem....
I did have an issues about a year ago when a cat jumped on the PC during the night
- and maybe f'ed up
the drive and had to install OEM XP and then upgrade XP Pro SP2.... so I know I've
got a bad sector/cluster
in there, but ran the chkdsk /r after that, so I "think" that that sector/cluster
is "off limits" and nothings trying to write to it - so I don't think that's My problem....
Dell BIOS does not allow to flash from the BIOS set up from the F12 key during boot...
also, nothing about
being able to play with the ECSD (or whatever!) settings, either.... But I will
also try going to "default"
BIOS settings, but as I've never messed around with BIOS (why bother, I figure!)
I don't know if that will solve My problems....
I'm posting all of this for 2 reasons (at least!):
1 - to see if anybody has any OTHER ideas
2 - to offer My experience to maybe help others in the future with MUP (rather, the
file AFTER MUP.SYS in the
boot!) issues....
Thanks for reading and for any suggestions/ideas!!!
LMC
On Friday, January 4, 2008 at 8:49 pm, cdavis999 wrote:
>Sounds exactly in line with what I said: XP gets its registry and/or settings twisted,
>and it needs some change to the system to prompt it to re-inventory what's actually
>there and what isn't.
>
>Changing cards around will do this, and in the process it found your drive, sorted
>itself out and started flying level again.
>
>Congratulations. Wotta rotten OS!
>
>CD
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