Re: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad 240/240X HDD direct swap

Did flashing the BIOS work, Kev -- or did you otherwise solve this? I remember reading
several Microsoft articles a while back about things that can crash, hang or stop Win2000
just as the GUI is about to load. And I think there was also one version of mup.sys itself
that freaked out under certain circumstances...maybe a patch issued? That doesn't help
much, I know, but if you still have the problem I suggest looking to the MS Knowledge Base
rather than to Thinkpad info.

Deanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kev" <co273@bfn.org>
To: "tpad" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 23:10 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad 240/240X HDD direct swap
>
> 3) In general, the 240X chassis looks promising, since it did not yield
> any weird surprises. However, there is a Win2K related issue. I was
> trying to avoid formatting the HDD on the 240 and reinstalling Win2K on
> the 240X, so I uninstalled the video/audio/USB hub/Northbridge/Southbridge
> drivers in the Win2K device manager, and then tossed the HDD from the 240
> chassis to the 240X. The machine booted, went into Win2K's text loadup
> mode, and just before the Graphics mode in the bootup process shows up, it
> locks up. No response to Capslock/Scrolllock/NumLock, but the Volume
> controls still work. When I used the F8/Safe mode bootup, I traced the
> bootup snag to a lockup directly after mup.sys. Is this to be expected
> when the HDD is transferred from one laptop to another in this fashion,
> is this a known BIOS snag, or is that board flaky? What should be the
> next step? I plan to flash the BIOS to 1.09 tomorrow, run diagnostics
> using IBM PC Doctor and then see if the Windows bootup will still trip up.
> Should I consider formatting the HDD and reinstalling Windows 2000 on the
> 240X chassis?

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Received on Sat Aug 28 11:51:40 2004