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I have just had something happen to me that apparently has been happening for
more than two years to a lot of ppl. I found two forum discussions going
back to 2003 that are huge, but none of the things proposed there have worked
for me.
My problem just began a couple weeks ago. I am running XP Pro and have for
several years with no problems at all. I shut the machine down one night and
the next day it wouldn't boot. It goes to the XP loading screen, all the
drive lights blink several times, then it loops back to reboot, endlessly. I
can't boot into safe mode or anything else. It will not load from the CD or
DVD drives - I tried to reload XP Pro and can't. I have to power it down by
holding the on button down for a few seconds - sometimes, then, it will give
me the option of using safe mode, but the drivers list to mup.sys (that is
what i searched on through Google and how I found out this is a big problem)
and it hangs. Shut down, it reboots all over again, same problem.
The forums offered all sorts of ideas, some worked for some ppl, some
didn't. Disabling features in the bios, disabling USB support, all sorts of
things, all of which I've tried unsuccessfully. This is an older machine and
all I really want is to be able to get some files off the hard drive and then
I'll recycle it, lol. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!!!
more than two years to a lot of ppl. I found two forum discussions going
back to 2003 that are huge, but none of the things proposed there have worked
for me.
My problem just began a couple weeks ago. I am running XP Pro and have for
several years with no problems at all. I shut the machine down one night and
the next day it wouldn't boot. It goes to the XP loading screen, all the
drive lights blink several times, then it loops back to reboot, endlessly. I
can't boot into safe mode or anything else. It will not load from the CD or
DVD drives - I tried to reload XP Pro and can't. I have to power it down by
holding the on button down for a few seconds - sometimes, then, it will give
me the option of using safe mode, but the drivers list to mup.sys (that is
what i searched on through Google and how I found out this is a big problem)
and it hangs. Shut down, it reboots all over again, same problem.
The forums offered all sorts of ideas, some worked for some ppl, some
didn't. Disabling features in the bios, disabling USB support, all sorts of
things, all of which I've tried unsuccessfully. This is an older machine and
all I really want is to be able to get some files off the hard drive and then
I'll recycle it, lol. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!!!