New XP Install Hangs on Boot

[Guest]

Have just installed new motherboard, CPU, Memory and SATA hard drive into PC.
Installed XP on partitioned hard drive OK. On system reboot, hangs at the
Windows Blue srolling bar logo. Try in safe mode and gets as far as loading
MUP.SYS.
No cards installed, No USB devices attached.
Anyone help??

 

[CreateWindow]

Hi Dave,

Can you set the BIOS to disable the on-board network interface (LAN), then
re-boot. What happens now?
I think your RAM may be faulty - and has messed up the registry files. Set
your BIOS to "failsafe defaults" and re-install the OS.

Might help.

CreateWindow
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The While-You-Were-Out program you always wanted.
Stop using those paper phone message pads
make the computer work for you.

 

[Ron Badour]

There are lots of hits on the search engine at google.com regarding this
problem: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=MUP.SYS+freeze&btnG=Search

 

[Bob Harris]

I tried a Goggle search on MUP.SYS and found many hits.

One of the best was http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=729

Read the whole thing and see whether it might lead to a solution for your
PC.

 

[Anna]

I tried a Goggle search on MUP.SYS and found many hits.

One of the best was http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=729

Read the whole thing and see whether it might lead to a solution for your
PC.

Dave:
1. (Nearly) needless to say, you're certain that all your
connections/configuration especially as related to the installation of your
SATA HDD are correct & secure, right? You've checked this carefully, right?

2. And, as best as you can determine, your BIOS settings are proper for your
current configuration, right? Again, you've checked this carefully with your
motherboard's user guide/manual, right?

3. I assume there were no hardware problems in your previous system that
might have some impact on your present problem, right? You were using a SATA
HDD as your boot drive in your previous system as well?

4. When you fresh installed the XP OS onto your new SATA HDD, the install
went without incident - no error messages or any untoward events during the
install process - at least until that initial reboot following the install
of the OS, right?

5. When you say you performed that install on that new SATA HDD you said it
was on a "partitioned hard drive". You actually carried out the
partitioning/formatting process during the XP install, didn't you? Or had
the drive been previously partitioned/formatted before you installed the XP
OS onto it? If so, how?

6. And this is a single-partitioned HDD?

7. When you say there are "no cards involved", what are you referring to? A
video/graphics card? Your new system has onboard graphics capability? What?

Assuming no hardware/configuration problems, think there's any chance that
something simply went awry during the XP install process? Have you tried
reinstalling the OS, i.e., just making a fresh start?

I'm assuming that after you've installed the MB, processor, RAM, (and
assuming you have onboard video capability - and disconnecting all storage
devices including any HDD(s) - you do get a screen display when you power up
with no strange error messages, right?
Anna