Any ideas? I was trialing to see how an old AMD 500Mhz MVP4 m'board 128MB Ram would handle XP OS but it kept freezing on the install at a file named mup.sys. Any work arounds or fixes would be much appreciated
Any ideas? I was trialing to see how an old AMD 500Mhz MVP4 m'board 128MB Ram would handle XP OS but it kept freezing on the install at a file named mup.sys. Any work arounds or fixes would be much appreciated

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Try This click here and then the one below if this didn't help.
Also found thisQuote:
<font face="Comic Sans MS"> <big>At last I used F5 to acccess the hardware settings when loading the XP install disc. Choosing another HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) - "Standard PC" instead of the default "ACPI enabled [...]" made the install disc load correctly!!</big> </font face=comic>
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Also found this: <font face="Comic Sans MS">Disable the BIOS/CMOS virus protection. It screwes up OS installs when they try to write to the boot sector and/or Master Boot Record</font face=comic>
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Not much here, but try this recent thread Likely to be one of various hardware issues.