- Dec 22, 1999
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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?
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?