MS-6337 and Windows XP SP2 won't boot?

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar (More info?)

"Kyro" <kyro.sk@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> We have a bank of machines, 3 of them, that have
> this motherboard (the MS-6337) in them with 512MB
> of RAM, 52x CD-ROM and LinkSys NIC. Once I applied
> SP2 to one of them, it stopped being able to boot
> successfully.
>
> Suspicious of the board/CPU/RAM, I moved the drive
> into a different identical box and it still won't
> startup at all, gets to the MUP.SYS and then blacks
> out for a sec only to POST and try booting again.
>
> These machines were running 2000 initially and
> recently just fine...
>
> Is there a known issue with the chipset on this
> board and XP SP2? Didn't think applying SP2 to
> these machines would be a big deal, but now ones
> toast for sure, won't even boot into safe mode,
> good thing we had backups, but what the hell?
>
> Anybody else have experience with this old board?
>
> -Kyro
>


Boot off the windows cd, load the recovery console.
Type "disable mup"
Hit Enter
All done, windows works. Mup.sys is the service to connect to Novell
servers.

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar (More info?)

If you haven't done the repair yet, I'd would disable automatic
restart and see if the machine will hang on a blue screen Stop error
and give you a clue.

Just as an example, a program called T.V. Media will cause a reboot
loop after installing SP2:

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;885523

The error will tell you if that's what's happening. Otherwise, if you
get a different error it will at least give you something to search
on.

Failing that, you could remove SP2 and make sure it's at least part of
the problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;875350

Kevin


On 2 Jun 2005 09:20:44 -0700, "Kyro" <kyro.sk@gmail.com> wrote:

>Tried this, and the recovery console confirmed that
>MUP.SYS was disabled.
>
>On the next normal boot attempt same thing, infinite
>reboot loop. Interestingly, when I tried Safe Mode
>one last time, it was still trying to load MUP.SYS
>(but the recovery console confirmed with a message
>telling me that the service was in fact disabled, so
>I'm not sure what that's all about).
>
>I've now flashed the boards BIOS to the latest version
>and it still won't boot. Now I'm going to do a repair
>install to get it back to plain ole' default XP and then
>I'll just leave it alone.