From: "Robert Comer" 

> The next thing I'm going to try, is to rename mup.sys to mup.sy_ and see
> what happens.  There is an older version of mup.sys in the service pack
> uninstall directory, that I could try, and probably will, to see if that's
> what's holding things up.

Don't do that, mup.sys is just the last driver loaded and most likely *not*
what's failing -- it's something that loads after the drivers that's
causing your problems.

First things first, you gotta see what BSOD's happening.

Use this FAQ to turn off the rebooting:
http://www.jsiinc.com/subb/tip0500/rh0526.htm  They don't describe that you
can do it from a second PC, the say use another install on the same PC, but
it really would work the same.  That should get you the BSOD and then maybe
we can figure out what to do then.

This is just a FAQ on the crashcontrol stuff, interesting and maybe for
future use: http://www.jsiinc.com/suba/tip0300/rh0312.htm

- Bob Comer




"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:41c1bf53{at}w3.nls.net...
> Yo guys.  Need some guru help here.
>
> Have one XP SP2 machine, Athalon 2100+ system, that after the last patches
> (and it did this once before), goes into a reboot loop.  Everything I've
> found, so far, has been fruitless to resolve this.  I can move the HD to a
> working system, and access the drive. I've done a commandline chkdsk /f/r
> on
> the drives 2 partitions.
>
> What I've done:
>
> Tried to boot into SAFE mode, hangs at the display of the driver mup.sys.
>
> Added /sos and /bootlog to the boot.ini file, as well as /basevideo  That
> gets me the same displayed list of driver names, then I get a plain style
> VGA screen that lists the boot OS version, etc., and then displays Boot
> logging enabled.  BUT, in the spot where the boot log is supposed to be,
> %systemroot%\ntblog.txt, there is only one dated back in August, not a
> replaced one from today and that boot.
>
> After that screen displays, the computer goes back to the bios start
> screen,
> and initiates a reboot again.
>
> How, when putting the HD into a working system, does one uninstall the
> fixes
> that were applied during the latest patch application?
>
> Where is the list and order of the drivers to load stored, so if the
> driver
> that's hanging/crashing is after the one displayed, you can see what it is
> to try to replace it, or rename it so you can attempt to bypass it?
>
> Also, I am unable to get this system to boot from the CDROM of Windows XP.
> The Boot from CD question appears for about 1 second, but immediately goes
> right past to the HD boot.  Even if I turn OFF the HD in the Bios, the
> computer STILL finds it, and tries to boot from it.
>
> The next thing I'm going to try, is to rename mup.sys to mup.sy_ and see
> what happens.  There is an older version of mup.sys in the service pack
> uninstall directory, that I could try, and probably will, to see if that's
> what's holding things up.
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
>

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