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Hello,

My machine has suddenly decided to stop booting, tried booting from safe mode (all options), but it hangs after Mup.sys.  Tried booting from CD to get to the recovery console but this hangs after "Setup is starting windows" message.

Machine spec;

Asus P5Q Delux Mainboard
Intel  Core 2 Duo 2.66
2GB Ram
Sapphire HD3870 512 Graphics card
320Gb harddisk
Aplus Case

Any ideas??

Alesh · Accepted Answer

Hi there,

I may help you with this, because I have solved similar problem.
I downloaded "Hiren's Boot CD". I burnt the ISO to a CD, booted from it and lunched the Mini XP.
In Mini Windows I went to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers directory and renamed all files that had a size of 0 kB.
I think you may delete them as well. Anyway, after this action I just removed the boot CD from my drive and rebooted as usual. And everything is OK for now...

I hope it helps, I wish you good luck!
Furthermore, I found this solution here...
https://www.toolbox.com/tech/data-management/blogs/windows-xp-hangs-at-isapnpsys-040610/

I just still don't know why that error happened.

Best wishes,
Alesh

johnwills · Answer

Managed to fix this, I removed the hard disk and connected it onto another machine, copied Mup.sys from the machine over the original on the hard disk from the failed computer.  Connected back up and and to my surprise it booted OK.

glhmedic · Answer

I have had a similiar problem. I was trying to get a game Company of Heroes running after I tried to update the game. In anycase I looked up the solution on the net and it sadi you should update your drivers. Well I went to Microsft website and it ran a program on it to see what I needed. It then loaded updates and said to restart the computer. I did this and it gve me the BSOD. I tried booting into Safe Mode but the same thing happened: I got a series of gibbersih stopping at MUPS. Then the computer busy lite went crazy. I have tried to re boot same thing happens BSOD or if trining to get to Safe Mode, I gt MUPS and xmas lites. I have a Dell Inspiron 1.66 GZ Win xp sp2. And to top it off I can't find the installation disk! Any advice?

christb · Answer

If you are unable to boot up to windows maybe youre windows is corupted. You can try this following method.
1. Insert youre windows instalation disk.
2. Type R in XP instalation disk or select recovery mode in vista instalation disc
3. Select command prompt
4. Type this command --> 
                 cd %windir%
                 sfc /scannow
5. Now wait untill windows finish inspecting youre instalation. If found any corrupted instalation files windows will perform auto replace of the corrupted files

ubuntuman · Answer

Hi Friends!!:

I had the following problem:
I have installed XP sp3 on a PC then I have tried to install linux, I don't know why but LILO and Grub does not worked for me, then I decided to leave XP alone.

When I tried to make a fixmbr from XP CD it hangs at "Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration".

I have tried the next:
-Reset BIOS
-Swap master and slaves
-Super grub
-fdisk /mbr (from old DOS)

nothing worked for me except one thing:

I had to delete the extended partition using fdisk from a DOS floppy,( but only the extended partition ), And make primary partition as "active", then when I restart the PC using XP CD it runs well, then I used recovery function to do a "fixmbr", now XP is running again.

I expect this post to be useful.

Thanks!!!

GAURAV SHARMA · Answer

You can try this following method.  
1. Insert youre windows instalation disk.  
2. Type R in XP instalation disk or select recovery mode in vista instalation disc  
3. Select command prompt  
4. Type this command -->  
cd %windir%  
sfc /scannow  
5. Now wait untill windows finish inspecting youre instalation. If found any corrupted instalation files windows will perform auto replace of the corrupted files

samet1killer · Answer

I have another problem,

after trying to boot with Dos floppy he can't see the external Hard drive.
And the ghost is on the Hard drive.

mohit · Answer

you have some hardware problem check you ram

3SF · Answer

- if windows hangs on boot process and doesnt show the starting windows screen , try safemode. It will show all the files that are succesfully loaded and hang at the last one.
 if Mup.sys is the last one,  then you might have hardware issues.
First run the recovery console using the WinXp istallation disk press R, logon to your partion and run scandisk  or chekdisk maybe using the repair parameter.
if it founds errors you should run  fixboot   to make shure the boot sector is ok.
if any of the files are mising or corrupted you have to recopy them from the istallation disk or an existing windows os that is knonw to work.
i also recomend  reseting the BIOS and make sure the acpi and anyting else related to power management is enabled. you can also try takin out 1 memory module and the video card if present or just swap the memory from their dimms. this will force the bios to update the configuration.

Shervin · Answer

I had a similar issue with my ThinkPad T61.
I changed the SATA controller mode option to "Compatibility" and it started working.

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