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win2k hangs on boot at mup.sys after installing atapi tape drive

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silverspecv

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Oct 31, 2003
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So I have this light duty server.. it has an MSI desktop motherboard with the nforce2 chipset, an amd sempron cpu, and 2 sata drives running raid 1.. on the pata ide2, I have a single ribbon with a cdrom jumpered to master.. Everything was fine. I installed a little atapi tape drive on the same ribbon with the cd and jumpered the tape for slave, but now the PC won't boot. BIOS detects everything just fine, but in safe mode, "mup.sys" is the last line to load before it hangs. If I take the tape drive out, the pc works fine like it always has. I tried some dinkering around with udma and turning off the onboard usb, sound, etc, but no luck.. it still won't boot with the tape drive installed. I've been doing a lot of reading, and I haven't seen anybody fix the mup.sys problem without reinstalling windows or something horrible like that. I'm still searching, but I figured I'd post here and see if anyone has any suggestions.
 
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