Re: [Q] TRacking down asserts by NdisTest

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From: Stephan Wolf (stewo68_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/20/04


Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:30:53 +0200

If you can't repro the crash with a debugger connected then maybe the
crash was *because* no debugger was connected. IIRC, we have seen NDIS
or NDISTest asserting and that caused a system crash.

However, with the debugger, you should see the machine stop and wait
for you to enter a command for the assertion (IIRC "continue",
"bugcheck", etc.).

Stephan

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:11:26 -0700, "Gramps" <gramps@old-fart.com>
wrote:
>Howdy!
>
>I trying to track down the cause of an assert within NdisTest 4.3.30. Unfortunately, this assert happened on a machine that wasn't set up for the debugger. So, the assert caused the system to crash (KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) so all I have is the memory dump. We're trying to repro this with KD enabled on the machine, but...
>
>Here's a couple of question:
>  1.. Is the .pdb for ndistest.sys available anywhere?
>  2.. Does ndistest.sys save anything meaningful in a register before it triggers the int 3?
>  3.. Assuming 2 is true, then is there documentation that would descibe the register value for the reason for the assert?
>Thanks!


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