[demon442]

It's about time I have some computer problems, and this one is a chronic one.  Seems my installation of XPpro has taken a dump and will not boot.  Safe mode shows that the boot process stopps just after "mup.sys" loads.  I've checked and it is the file just after it that causes my little crash.  This also happened on two previous occations when I had 2000 installed, as well as when the original XPhome quit after 6 months.

Problem: It does not display what file is loading, and I have not yet found an in-order boot service listing for NT based operating systems.

Question: Considering that this struck wihout warning, I have months of poetry and writing on that drive, along with my entire collection of 'aquired' software(~120MB).  Could anyone assist me in locating the name of the obviously corrupted file.  Repair should pose no problem.

[phreak]

i remember seeing this before.  last i knew is that a WinXP SP2 install got screwed up somehow.  i think you have to reinstall windows to get it to work

[demon442]

Only problem with that one is that it's a clean XPpro install.  Blacklisted key and all...

And it didn't matter what service pack I had on the 2000 installs.  The first was SP3, the second was clean.

[Liberator]

Bring up the Startup menu(F8 at the appropriate time), there should be an option for a step-by-step confirmation of each file to be loaded.  This should allow you to find out the name of the offending file and then you can use that to find out the proper corrective action(if any).

Good Luck and I hope this helps.  My experience with XP is less than what it should be.

[demon442]

News Flash:  I am very impatient.  Turns out that it doesn't hang at this time, but rather slows to about 1/10 it's normal speed.  Either a RAM or CPU issue, AFAICT.

Good news: I can save my files.
Bad news: It will take the rest of the night to get to the desktop and get everything loaded.  After that, who knows?

[Swamp_Thing]

I don´t remember ever seeing a file named mup.sys before. Are you sure that is not a virus or a worm?
You could do a system restore, to a point in time when you weren´t having problems.

[Scuddie]

You should have access to the recovery console, correct?  If you do, login using that, then when the prompt is ready, and you are logged in, type "disable mup".  The odds are, most consumers will never ever need that process, because all it does is communicate with Netware server.

If that doesnt work, and it hangs on something else, go into your CMOS and disable damn near everything non-critical(onboard audio, USB, UDMA access, etc).  Then login again from recovery console and do a chkdsk on the volume.  If it finds errors, a recovery/repair installation may be necessary.


For the record, what is your chipset?