sounds like a driver issue.
When you start up in safe mode (F5) make sure its the
veery basic 'safe mode - no drivers - no networking, Then
go to the control panel and do an sp2 removal in remove
programs.
Hope this helps - it worked for me and I had a very simlar
problem.
Good Luck!
Barrie
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cheers & good luck with your PC
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You're not alone! You just described the exact same
problem I experienced overnight. I'll let you know if I
find something out.
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I have downloaded xp sp2 overnight, and this morning it
asked me to restart the computer as sp2 download was
complete and the installation was in process and the
computer needed to be restarted to complete the
installation.
When I restart the computer it freezes shortly after
start up with Windows XP on screen.
If I start the computer in safe mode with networking
either on or off, The computer freezes with a heap of
sentences showing, with the last one reading the
following-
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\Sys tem32
\Drivers\Mup.sys
If I try to restart using 'Last known good
configuration'
it still freezes on the XP page with the black
background.
What am I to do know?
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