Thank you for your reply.
I will study your suggestion and see if it will apply to
my situation.
Just one small thing- when I'm in command prompt, I want
to access the 'documents and settings' file but the PC
responds with access denied even though I am logged in as
a admin. How can I get arround this to recover a very
important file if all else fails?
Cheers
Bald Benny


-----Original Message-----
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:55:33 -0700, "vyking61"

You're not alone! You just described the exact same
problem I experienced overnight. I'll let you know if
I
find something out.

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

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\Sys tem32
\Drivers\Mup.sys

http://cquirke.mvps.org/sp2intel.htm

Known issue with Intel Precott processor and SP2, if
BIOS doesn't push
Intel's bugfixes to the processor.

To uninstall SP2, do this:
- CMOS setup, disable L1 and L2 cache
- run XP; it will run, but very slowly... have faith!
- Add/Remove Programs, uninstall SP2
- CMOS setup, enable L1 and L2 cache

To live with SP2 (kludge), do this:
- use your maintenance OS to rename away Update.sys
- now XP SP2 will run "fine" (that's how I'm running
my test PC)
- if you have SP1(a) Update.sys, can put that back if
you like

To really fix the underlying issue:
- get a BIOS update that pushes microcode rev 8 to
Prescott
- steppings 2, 3 = C0 are OK on rev 7
- but stepping 4 = D0 requires rev 8

If you find your mobo vendors's very latest BIOS doesn't
fix the
issue, don't be surprised. Even Intel seems just-in-
time on this; I
read up Intel's own 865G Bayfield mobo, and...


http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf/bf_proc.htm

Outlines processor requirements, which are...

Mobo -405*, BIOS P18 Prescott Celeron D
Mobo -405*, BIOS P13 Prescott Pentium 4
Mobo -405*, BIOS P11 Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
Mobo -any, BIOS P11 Pentium 4 at 3.4GHz
Mobo -any, BIOS P06 Pentium 4 at 800MHz base
Mobo -any, BIOS P03 Pentium 4
Mobo -any, BIOS P03 Celeron

* C28144-406 req'd; all other C2???? are -405 OK
(Every Bayfield I've seen here has been C25843)


ftp://download.intel.com/design/moth...f/C4159712.pdf

Page 9 links motherboard -40x rev to BIOS version;
excerpt:

C25843-408 = BIOS P16
C25843-407 = BIOS P13
C25843-406 = BIOS P10
C25843-405 = BIOS P09
C25843-404 = BIOS P07
C25843-403 = BIOS P07
C25843-402 = BIOS P06
C25843-401 = BIOS P03

This contrasts with Intel's assertions that -405 is OK
for
Prescott, and that only tardy 3rd-party motherboard/BIOS
vendors have failed to be Prescott-ready.

When you look at the BIOS versions, the threshold for
Prescott Pentium 4 is -407, not -405 as claimed, and not
one C25843 is fit for Prescott Celeron D.


ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf/P19.pdf

BIOS revision history, as summarized below.

P19-0065 03/08/2004
P18-0063 22/06/2004
- latest processor update
- Celeron Badge for Prescott
P17-0061 22/04/2004
P16-0060 12/04/2004
P15-0058 05/04/2004
- latest processor update
P14-0056 10/02/2004
P13-0053 22/01/2004
- enhanced for future processor supprt
- code to diff some P4 from some Celeron
- latest processor update
P12-0051 16/12/2003
- supports P4 Extreme Edition
P11-0048 14/10/2003
P10-0046 24/09/2003
- latest processor update
P09-0043 25/08/2003
- latest processor update
P08-0038 24/06/2003
P07-0036 19/05/2003
P06-0033 23/04/2003
- latest processor update
P05-0030 16/04/2003
P04-0028 14/04/2003
P03-0024 04/04/2003
- initial BIOS release

So the "Prescott Celeron OK" BIOS revision came out in
June 2004 -
same month as Prescott Celeron itself - and that version
has yet to
ship with the -403 to -408 stock we buy new right now.

What does that tell you about chances of not falling
into this hole?



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