Windows XP PC no longer boots after installing PCI Expansi..

[M]

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I have installed an SIIG USB 2.0+Firewire+Ethernet combo adaptor and now
find that when the PC boots it hangs, it will not even boot into the
recovery consol. If I try to boot into safe mode it stops on
windows\system32\drivers\mup.sys. I have swapped the card with one from
another machine so the card is definitely good.

I think that a BIOS settings may be to blame. The reason being that when I
bought the PC some time ago it was not working because it would hang when
trying to install XP. The solution was to disable the onboard LAN and
Modem, which had been enabled when the Bios was set to Failsafe, despite
neither being actually installed on the motherboard. Setting the Bios to
Failsafe also unhelpfully disables the floppy drive. This suggests that the
default Failsafes have been badly setup. The machine does not have any
other expansion cards.

The PC will not boot from a BartPE Windows XP boot CD (also hangs) but will
boot Knoppix.

Does anyone know how to work round this? Would any BIOS setting stop an
expansion card from working under XP?

Thanks.

 

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"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
news:OIr6AQ92EHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have installed an SIIG USB 2.0+Firewire+Ethernet combo adaptor and now
> find that when the PC boots it hangs, it will not even boot into the
> recovery consol. If I try to boot into safe mode it stops on
> windows\system32\drivers\mup.sys. I have swapped the card with one from
> another machine so the card is definitely good.
>
> I think that a BIOS settings may be to blame. The reason being that when
I
> bought the PC some time ago it was not working because it would hang when
> trying to install XP. The solution was to disable the onboard LAN and
> Modem, which had been enabled when the Bios was set to Failsafe, despite
> neither being actually installed on the motherboard. Setting the Bios to
> Failsafe also unhelpfully disables the floppy drive. This suggests that
the
> default Failsafes have been badly setup. The machine does not have any
> other expansion cards.
>
> The PC will not boot from a BartPE Windows XP boot CD (also hangs) but
will
> boot Knoppix.
>
> Does anyone know how to work round this? Would any BIOS setting stop an
> expansion card from working under XP?
>
> Thanks.

Have you tried *clearing* the CMOS? There should be a jumper you can short
to do this. It does sound like this board has... design issues.

If you don't have the manual for the board, see if you can find the model
name and number and google it. There are a lot of manuals avaialble
online.

HTH
-pk