Unable to Boot XP

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CDM

Hello everyone,

I am hoping I can find some answers as to why my computer is not booting XP.

The Problem:

The computer would lock up from time to time (randomly) I would run error
checking with a thought scan and of course there is nothing wrong. This
time the computer locked up a few times in a row and I did the error and now
when the error check is done it tells me that the volume was clean and then
just sites there does nothing. If I attempt to boot to safe mode it will
display the Drivers it is loading and stops after the Mup.sys and does
nothing else.

I have tried various things but have been unlucky in getting the issue
resolved..

Can any one give me Ideas?

Chris
 
from the wonderful said:
Hello everyone,

I am hoping I can find some answers as to why my computer is not booting XP.

The Problem:

The computer would lock up from time to time (randomly) I would run error
checking with a thought scan and of course there is nothing wrong. This
time the computer locked up a few times in a row and I did the error and now
when the error check is done it tells me that the volume was clean and then
just sites there does nothing. If I attempt to boot to safe mode it will
display the Drivers it is loading and stops after the Mup.sys and does
nothing else.

I have tried various things but have been unlucky in getting the issue
resolved..

Can any one give me Ideas?
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The two which occur at once are temperature (especially if this is an
older AMD CPU) - try it with the side off the case - of bad memory
(www.memtest86.com). Could also be a bad PSU (hard to check unless you
happen to have a spare) or it could be faulty drivers of some kind (can
you boot safe mode with networking? How about 'last known good'? - safe
mode will sometimes hang (or appear to hang) if a device like a network
card causes interrupts and no appropriate driver is loaded).

Come back if none of that works. You could also try removing all the
non-essential PCI ad-in cards (sound, network, modem, whatever). IIrc
mup.sys is the last thing loaded, so you are into service initialization
at the point where it hangs.
 
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