Re: Driver does not work on fresh Windows XP system

On Jan 17, 1:24 am, "Volodymyr Shcherbyna"
<v_scherb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, there is no dependency. It seems like you've discovered a bug, that was
not showing itself on development machine. I suggest you to test the driver
on XP, 2k, 2k03 and probably Vista. Just one test on a fresh XP is not
enought.

Also, I'd suggest to use verifier + static verification checks before making
any releases.

--
V

"Amit" <goenka...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:34c1be97-ccad-45f3-95d2-2118a1ff3a2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Hi All,

I have a windows XP based device driver that is running well on a
system that has Visual Studio and the DDK installed on it. Before the
release we wanted to test the driver on a fresh system that has XP.
When we used it on that system (A laptop) the driver crashed with
BSOD. This is a serial port emulator driver. The crash is being
indicated in mmSpecialPool... Also it seems the crash is while
acquiring a spin lock.

Is there any dependeny of the installed kits on the system. Does
anything else need to be packaged along with the driver. Any
suggestions would be helpful.

Regards
Amit- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Hi Volodymyr,

Thanks for the reply. It turns out that this machine on which we are
testing is a Core 2 Duo Centrino processor. We tried by using the -M 2
option to the BUILD option to build for multiprocessors but it did not
help.

I think we need to do more work to get the driver working on a Core
2 / Dual Core system - probably in terms of synchronization etc. Also
is there is a different DDK or we can use the same one for development
for these kind of systems. Also do we need to do something special for
windows 2000 ?

Thanks
Amit
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Jenson Button
    ... an also-ran for your whole career. ... It's not just seeming fresh - you have to be fresh. ... you lose the ability to make progress. ... I'm not sure that Coulthard was always a natural No. 2 driver - he achieved ...
    (rec.autos.sport.f1)
  • RE: Ethernet card
    ... Then figure out the model number and vendor of your card, and download a fresh XP driver from manuf. ... web site. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Reinstalling a NIC driver Q
    ... I want to remove the driver for my NIC and reinstall it fresh to try and ... clear up a hardware-type bug in my system. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: E36 Alarm/Central Locking, please help
    ... like a master reset to start fresh? ... Prev by Date: ... Next by thread: Re: Are you a Renault owner, driver or enthusiast? ...
    (alt.autos.bmw)
  • Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question
    ... It's the OS fglrx driver. ... With the 'nvidia' driver from ... Intel Core 2 Duo at about 2.3 GHz ... I can't get anything on core 2 duo boards. ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
Loading