When I load up windows xp pro it finishes the blue bar loading screen and then goes into a blank screen. I loaded up safe mode and noticed that it was stuck at the driver mup.sys . The last thing I did with this computer before this problem was unplug the power cable from the PSU because it was taking a long time to shut down (stupid). And no I don't have the windows recovery console.

This thread's solution is that it is the file loaded before mup.sys that causes the issue.