Re: How to check if a spin lock has been freed or released?

> Because this box was at a remote location, I ended up having to talk someone
> through hooking up a kernel debugger and using .kdfiles to load the SP0
> version of update.sys via phone, then disabling the Microcode Update driver
> permanently in the registry so it would boot without a kd attached. Not fun

No need to be able to raise the OS to disable the boot driver. Use the recover
environment (boot off Setup disc and hit F8) and say "disable update".

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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