Hi.
I know the root of this problem isn't actually mup.sys. It's actually
the process after it.
But, what I'm wanting to know is how to solve my problem.

Here is my problem:
I recently purchased a Belkin Firewire/USB combo card and put it in my
PC. It was working fine until I tried to use it's firewire
capabilities. Clearly, my computer doesn't have the drivers or
something it needs for this work.

When the PCI card is in, I can't actually boot up my system properly. I
just freezes when looging on, or on 'Mup.sys' when trying to boot safe
mode.

How can I somehow bypass whatever it is, and hopefully try and solve
the problem in windows.. OR is there another solution? (other than
formatting or buying new hardware, etc..)

Try updating your motherboard chipset drivers. The process after MUP.sys is
AGP sys (actual file name varies as to the motherboard chipset.

I've seen multiple ways of getting round this one ranging from flashing
and/or resetting the BIOS to optimized defaults, checking the capacitors on
the motherboard (if bulging, time to replace the mobo), Repair Installing XP
and changing the IDE cables.

Basically it's telling you something is troubling XP in the hardware
configuration, but actually working out which hardware it is, can be almost
impossible.

In your case, you know it appears to be the installation of the PCI
USB/Firewire combo card (and XP should simple install the drivers as they
are included).... but you're also looking at the chipset of the motherboard
because it connects via a PCI slot and these may fail on the mobo or can be
disabled if you are using some of the motherboard's built in capabilities...
check your motherboard manual to ensure that the slot you chose is available
in all motherboard configurations. Have you tried more than one slot?

As you've seen at Google, there are nearly 22,000 pages on this topic....
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



<acidecks@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
> I know the root of this problem isn't actually mup.sys. It's actually
> the process after it.
> But, what I'm wanting to know is how to solve my problem.
>
> Here is my problem:
> I recently purchased a Belkin Firewire/USB combo card and put it in my
> PC. It was working fine until I tried to use it's firewire
> capabilities. Clearly, my computer doesn't have the drivers or
> something it needs for this work.
>
> When the PCI card is in, I can't actually boot up my system properly. I
> just freezes when looging on, or on 'Mup.sys' when trying to boot safe
> mode.
>
> How can I somehow bypass whatever it is, and hopefully try and solve
> the problem in windows.. OR is there another solution? (other than
> formatting or buying new hardware, etc..)
>

Yeah, lol... So many stuff about mup.

And yes, I've tried al my PCI slots ;(
BUT... I have actually been updating all my drivers.
I also go an update for my AGP... And some other drivers. After this
update, a fwe things have disppeared from my device manager (not in a
bad way - evertything still works) which probably means there were some
conflicts going on anyway.
Thanks for your help, and now I know that updating my drivers will
help, I'm not gonna stop

Cheers, I'll tell you how it goes.