TSGL: Can you HELP???

[Don Penlington]

Baracouder wrote:
>It would hang on startup and if I selected "Last known config"
>it hung, if I selected "safe mode" it hung at "mup.sys" every time. >>


XP is looking for the hardware installed on your computer.  You have fooled 
it by now placing it in another computer which it cannot recognise.

Immediately after mup.sys, other drivers are loaded at startup. The new 
computer probably does not have the same hardware drivers as yours, so XP 
is lost and cannot boot properly. Mup.sys often gets wrongly blamed for 
boot hangups as it's the last visible success before XP attempts to load 
the next driver.

There might also be activation problems, depending on the type of XP cd.

There are probably ways to configure boot.ini to get around the problem, 
but there are probably several driver problems and you will never be 
certain that you have isolated all the causes. The system is likely to be 
unstable at best, even if you can force it to boot.

There are many possible answers to the quite common "mup.sys" problem and 
you could spend weeks in trial and error. Just google mup.sys for 70,000 
possible solutions. You sure aren't alone!

Unless you can find a simple answer, your safest and easiest bet is to 
reformat the drive again and reinstall XP on his computer.

You will have to reformat from another emergency boot cd, or reformat it on 
your computer, as the XP cd is probably now looking for the activation 
number on your computer and this is preventing it running on his machine.

Don Penlington


 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
Computer tutorials, local scenery,  and other things at my website:
http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html