system won't boot after 4.4.0 install

[sethmeister]

Finally got around to installing 4.4.0 and after reboot my system is hanging.

Win XP Ath x2 4400 2G mem, 1 UAD PCI-e card.

Everything was running fine until I installed 4.4.0.

Managed to boot via \"Last known good config\" but reinstalled 4.4.0 and now can't even get that far.

Safe mode boot w/ cli shows system hanging while loading Mup.sys.

Anyone see anything similar or have troubleshooting advice?

Thanks,

Seth

 

[erlijohn]

I am no expert on things like this, but a GOOGLE search came up with this link which may be helpful:

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/31874/

or perhaps this link might be helpful:

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwb ... 97354.html

This is the link to my GOOGLE search results...:

http://verden.abcsok.no/index.html?q=mup.sys&cs=latin1

Regards
KeJ

 

[sethmeister]

Was able to come up again in \"Last Known Good\" config.

Best I can figure, though it may be coincidental is that I'd managed to have both 4.3.0 and 4.4.0 powered plugins installed. I deleted all the older ones.

Am at work now but will try to boot inr egualr mode again tonight and see if [problem has resolved.

 

[neil wilkes]

MUP.sys is not the file causing the hangup - that will be the last file that actually loaded up properly.
I ran across this once before, and it turned out to be a corrupted boot sector on the HDD.....the drive was going bad and had to be replaced.
(A reformat failed, so did a repair installation of XP)

The boot sector of the drive is the part that gets hit the hardest, and I think your system drive is dying.

 

[sethmeister]

hope not. those drives are practically new

 

[sethmeister]

Managed to get in via safe mode and ran chkdsk; everything fine.

On a lark I deleted the Sonar public beta vst adapter (i think this and 4.4.0 were squabbling, and I noticed relatd app errors in event viewer) and I've been able to do several reboots without seeing the problem again so far.