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brett
I have widows xp pro sp1a installed on my computer. It
is installed on a SerialATA HDD. I got xp istalled ok.
It worked for about a month, and then one day it would
not boot past the windows splash screen. I booted in
safe mode, and would see the list of drivers that
loaded. Still could not boot into safe mode. The last
driver in the list was mup.sys. Researched the web, but
could not find a clear answer for fix. So i did an fdisk
and a reinstall of xp. Back up now.
During the weeks that the computer was working, I noticed
that, not every time, but frequently scandisk would run
at beginning of windows startup. During my research I
kept coming across talk about how computers are shutting
down so fast now a days, that there isn't enough time for
windows to clean up all the open files e.g." index
files". These " index files" were the types of files I
would see being cleaned up during the scandisks at
startup.
Is it possible for file corruption to happen due to the
fact that the computer shuts down before windows has time
to do all of its housekeeping at shutdown, thus leaving
something crucial to booting the computer to the windows
environment corrupt? I want to know if there is a way to
make it promt me that it is "OK to turn off computer now"
like in 2000, or a way to increase shutdown time?
Basically, it is obvious that all my hardware works fine
due to the fact that the computer is running fine after
fdisk and reinstall. So that narrows it down to
software. I am glad I found a quick fix, but i don't
want to keep installing xp every month or so. Right now
I don't want to turn off my computer due to fear of file
corruption again, or what ever it was. Am i the first
instance of this, or have there been others? During my
research I was concerned to see how many people were in
the same boat as me. Try a google search on mup.sys, and
you will see for your self.
brett
is installed on a SerialATA HDD. I got xp istalled ok.
It worked for about a month, and then one day it would
not boot past the windows splash screen. I booted in
safe mode, and would see the list of drivers that
loaded. Still could not boot into safe mode. The last
driver in the list was mup.sys. Researched the web, but
could not find a clear answer for fix. So i did an fdisk
and a reinstall of xp. Back up now.
During the weeks that the computer was working, I noticed
that, not every time, but frequently scandisk would run
at beginning of windows startup. During my research I
kept coming across talk about how computers are shutting
down so fast now a days, that there isn't enough time for
windows to clean up all the open files e.g." index
files". These " index files" were the types of files I
would see being cleaned up during the scandisks at
startup.
Is it possible for file corruption to happen due to the
fact that the computer shuts down before windows has time
to do all of its housekeeping at shutdown, thus leaving
something crucial to booting the computer to the windows
environment corrupt? I want to know if there is a way to
make it promt me that it is "OK to turn off computer now"
like in 2000, or a way to increase shutdown time?
Basically, it is obvious that all my hardware works fine
due to the fact that the computer is running fine after
fdisk and reinstall. So that narrows it down to
software. I am glad I found a quick fix, but i don't
want to keep installing xp every month or so. Right now
I don't want to turn off my computer due to fear of file
corruption again, or what ever it was. Am i the first
instance of this, or have there been others? During my
research I was concerned to see how many people were in
the same boat as me. Try a google search on mup.sys, and
you will see for your self.
brett