unusual startup

[vivek]

I have WinXp home. During startup my screen goes blank
and a cursor blinks on the screen. on pressing any key
the system boots and I reach the user login screen but
the keyboard and mouse do not work. Hence, I restart
using the restart button on the CPU after which
eyerything becomes fine. On booting in safe mode the
system stops at
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32
\drivers\Mup.sys

Again on pressing any key it boots but the keyboard and
mouse don't work until I restart.

Please help

 

[OShah]

I have WinXp home. During startup my screen goes blank
and a cursor blinks on the screen. on pressing any key
the system boots and I reach the user login screen but
the keyboard and mouse do not work. Hence, I restart
using the restart button on the CPU after which
eyerything becomes fine. On booting in safe mode the
system stops at
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32
\drivers\Mup.sys

Again on pressing any key it boots but the keyboard and
mouse don't work until I restart.

Please help

I noticed that when Windows doesn't shutdown properly from the previous
session, it takes a looooooong time to start up in safe mode (up to 15
minutes). During this time I notice plenty of disk activity (the hard disk
light stays on). I wonder if it's running some kind of chkdsk?

Windows does runs some extra debug/diagnostic code in safe mode when
starting up. However, I cannot confirm if one of those lines of code
includes Chkdsk().

So, just wait a little (in Microspeak that's "a lot") longer for safe mode
to come up.

As to your mouse/keyboard problem, are you using a PS/2 mouse/kbd, COM
port mouse/kbd or USB mouse/kbd?

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oshah
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose Programs
-> Do not report errors for these programs:

Acrobat.exe
waol.exe

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