Duncan in XP it is called "Enable Boot Logging" and it is in the list when you hit the F8 key. It will log every step thru all the boot process and see exactly where is stops or hangs up. After you can find the log file in the Windows folder called ntbtlog.txt. You can see that there are quite a few files from the system sub folder that load after mup.sys, and where it stops logging will be the bad guy.
-----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:00 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ?small problem Mark, I do not know how to do a "stepped boot." The last thing I see in the (AMI bios) Post is "checking nvram....", then the screen goes black; shortly followed by the XP boot screen. It is actually pretty tough just to even get to the F8 (Safe Mode) selection screen.
