XP hangs on bootup, safemode options no help !

[Bill]

I have noticed in the past couple of weeks that my XP
Professional system and many friends XP Pro systems are
hanging on startup. I have tried safemode and each system
hangs on a different driver. For example one system hung
on \Windows\AppPatch\drvmain.sdb and another hung on
\Windows\system32\drivers\mup.sys.

I have also tried all other safemode options, including
Last Known Good Configuration which only worked on one
system.

All systems are up to date with Windows critical updates
but no service packs are installed. All machines are also
running Norton AV 2003 with up to date definitions.


I think that a recent Microsoft patch or malware of some
kind may be causing this.
Has anyone else had similar problems ?
Any ideas?

PS: I have searched through these posts, and in the past
few days there have been other posts describing basically
the same thing with no real solutions, just obvious
suggestions like recovery console, chkdsk, safemode, etc.


Thanks in advance
Bill

 

[Rock]

I have noticed in the past couple of weeks that my XP
Professional system and many friends XP Pro systems are
hanging on startup. I have tried safemode and each system
hangs on a different driver. For example one system hung
on \Windows\AppPatch\drvmain.sdb and another hung on
\Windows\system32\drivers\mup.sys.

I have also tried all other safemode options, including
Last Known Good Configuration which only worked on one
system.

All systems are up to date with Windows critical updates
but no service packs are installed. All machines are also
running Norton AV 2003 with up to date definitions.


I think that a recent Microsoft patch or malware of some
kind may be causing this.
Has anyone else had similar problems ?
Any ideas?

PS: I have searched through these posts, and in the past
few days there have been other posts describing basically
the same thing with no real solutions, just obvious
suggestions like recovery console, chkdsk, safemode, etc.


Thanks in advance
Bill

They can't be up to date if they don't have at least SP1 installed, and
now SP2.

 

[Guest]

All the critical security updates are installed, I just
chose to skip SP1 and 2 !

 

[Rock]

All the critical security updates are installed, I just
chose to skip SP1 and 2 !



installed, and

The SPs are more than just the sum of security hotfixes.

 

[Guest]

No kidding, but all I am concerned with are the critical
security updates.