It will Post but wont boot into windows, hangs at boot menu

[The Dancing Peacock]

I have an xp2100+ & k7s5a system running XP sp1 . PNY 256 DDR ram. The machine was working great. I ran the Mersenne prime test on it for about 36 hours straight, no crashes. I went to set it up at my cousin's house, installed the wireless card, configured a bunch of things. Running for about another 3 hours. I can't remember what crashed it, but I had to hard reboot it, and after that my troubles began

Iit will post successfully, but it gets to the boot menu: Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Choose last know good configuration, or boot windows normally .

If I chose any of the Safe Mode options, It will show all the drivers loading, but will hangs after loading MUP.sys

If I chose last known good config, all I get is a black screen.

If I let it try to get into Windows normally on it's own, it just counts down to 0 then hangs at the boot menu window.


I updated the BIOS to the 10/29/2002, which was the newest version ECS had. It has a Radeon 8500le in it, in addition to the specs above. These problems continued after I updated the BIOS.

I had seen this with another k7s5a, but the problem was fixed by letting it sit for a few hours then it would boot normally. A BIOS update actually cured this whole problem. This one sat for 5 days and was still at this point.

I also booted off the XP CD and tried the repair XP option, I did the fix boot and fixmbr, which didn't help.

Any ideas?

 

[hdeck]

have you tried clearing the CMOS memory? you'd be amazed how many problems that thing solves.

 

[Rav3n]

Remove all the extras from the system and boot using only the mobo, cpu, ram, vid card. Disconnect all ide devices, the floppy drive, all add-in cards, etc. If your computer boots then and begins asking for sh*t, then first add your HD, and boot again. Keep adding stuff until your pc doesn't boot, and then you have isolated the device. It might also be windows being corrupt, so you might want to format.

 

[ozone13]

Boot your computer, but press F8 to get the options prior to the OS (safe mode, etc). Boot with logging enabled....look to see where it is hanging (last file loaded).