Hello all 
Here are my specs:
Windows SP3
AMD athlon dual core 3800 +
2 gig ram
BFG 8800 GTS
MSI K9N SLI motherboard
some background info:
I have been having some problems with my computer recently. It started when out of the blue, the image on the screen began to break up and distort - basically artifacting - for no apparant reason. So i downloaded and correctly installed some new drivers for the graphics card (assuming that was the problem) and the image break up still happened. It got to a point where, after turning on the computer and getting to the screen telling me that windows shut down unexpectantly and offered me the options to boot in safe mode, run normally etc etc, the monitor could not seem to display that message correctly; it was breaking up that message and became unreadable.
so i whipped out that 8800 and installed my old 7950 GT. I managed to get to the screen that told me my computer had shut down unexpectedly etc etc and i could actually see the options to boot normally and so on. So it was fair to assume that the 8800 had probably degraded over time. The graphics were appearing fine on the monitor (with the 7950 GT card); the image was normal.
Here is where I am stuck:
So i tried to boot in safe mode, so i could remove the drivers for the 8800 GTS and install the drivers for the 7950, just to be 100% sure it was the 8800 that was playing up. However whilst safe mode was loading, the screen hung on:
" \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\mup.sys "
The screen would not progress further than that. I looked up what MUP.sys is and some articles suggested that it was not mup.sys that was the problem, it was something else. Some other articles suggested i used the recovery disc. So i stuck in the recovery disc; however, the process hung when i got to this point:
" Examining 190780 mb disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on nvatabus... "
So i cannot actually get to the recovery screen. I've already tried looking up solutions, but the solutions conflict - if i try and fix the mup.sys problem, the solutions say to boot with the recovery disc (which i cannot do) and if i look up solutions for the recovery disc issue then they say to boot in safe mode (which i cannot do). I was not given the XP CD with the computer, only the recovery disc.
Thanks for reading if you got this far: Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
Here are my specs:
Windows SP3
AMD athlon dual core 3800 +
2 gig ram
BFG 8800 GTS
MSI K9N SLI motherboard
some background info:
I have been having some problems with my computer recently. It started when out of the blue, the image on the screen began to break up and distort - basically artifacting - for no apparant reason. So i downloaded and correctly installed some new drivers for the graphics card (assuming that was the problem) and the image break up still happened. It got to a point where, after turning on the computer and getting to the screen telling me that windows shut down unexpectantly and offered me the options to boot in safe mode, run normally etc etc, the monitor could not seem to display that message correctly; it was breaking up that message and became unreadable.
so i whipped out that 8800 and installed my old 7950 GT. I managed to get to the screen that told me my computer had shut down unexpectedly etc etc and i could actually see the options to boot normally and so on. So it was fair to assume that the 8800 had probably degraded over time. The graphics were appearing fine on the monitor (with the 7950 GT card); the image was normal.
Here is where I am stuck:
So i tried to boot in safe mode, so i could remove the drivers for the 8800 GTS and install the drivers for the 7950, just to be 100% sure it was the 8800 that was playing up. However whilst safe mode was loading, the screen hung on:
" \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\mup.sys "
The screen would not progress further than that. I looked up what MUP.sys is and some articles suggested that it was not mup.sys that was the problem, it was something else. Some other articles suggested i used the recovery disc. So i stuck in the recovery disc; however, the process hung when i got to this point:
" Examining 190780 mb disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on nvatabus... "
So i cannot actually get to the recovery screen. I've already tried looking up solutions, but the solutions conflict - if i try and fix the mup.sys problem, the solutions say to boot with the recovery disc (which i cannot do) and if i look up solutions for the recovery disc issue then they say to boot in safe mode (which i cannot do). I was not given the XP CD with the computer, only the recovery disc.
Thanks for reading if you got this far: Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
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