I cannot find a mup.sys file on my computer, running Windows XP.
It might be a virus. Is you WinXP CD a copy or the original ?


"Toller" <Toller@Yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> My computer (a emachine T1860, running WXP) was running "Winfixer"
> repeatedly. I don't know what it is,
> except I sure didn't put it there and wanted to get rid of it.
> To do that I ran an antivirus program call "Stinger".
> Before "Stinger" completed, my system would and rebooted, over and over
> again.
> In safe mode I got as far as MUP.SYS
> I took it to a repair shop. They said it was full of viruses and I had to
> reload the operating system.
> I did, but it still stopped at MUP.SYS.
> I connected the drive to my 2nd computer and formatted the disk (it denied
> having FDISK?!)
> I loaded the operating system again, and it stopped at MUP.SYS.
> I put an old WIN98 disk on the computer, and it runs fine.
> I connected the disk to my other computer and loaded that computer's
> operating system on it. (both WXP, but different models of emachine, and
> the 2nd one is on DVD which the 1st computer does not have)
> It runs my second computer just fine.
> I put it on my first computer. It stops at AGPCPQ.SYS. Progress, it is
> about 3 steps later than MUP.SYS.
>
> It was suggested to me to run disk diagnostics on the disk. They showed a
> dozen errors.
> I ran a lowlevel disk formating process. It said the disk was bad. I
> tried
> loading the OS again but got the same results.
>
> In disgust I took my W98 disk and loaded WXP on it. I got the same
> results;
> it hangs at MUP.SYS.
> So it is not the disk.
>
> What the hell is it? The CD is not defective, since a disk loaded by it
> runs fine in my other computer. Memory?
> The computer runs W98 fine, but I understand that is less demanding.
>
> I am reloading W98 at the moment, and expect that to take another half
> day.
> Had I known what I was in for, I would have bought a new computer; but do
> I
> have any other options at this point?
>
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