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Crash without bluescreen? -> possible?
Posted on December 1st, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hi I'm writing a printer driver (user mode) and in my implementation there is a bug (in the DrvBitBlt function) ... now, this causes the debug-version of Windows to crash imediately and non-debug...

TDI problems
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hello, I am trying to write a TDI device driver filter. I receive the IRP_MJ_INTERNAL_DEVICE_CONTROL with a minor function of TDI_SET_EVENT_HANDLER, with the EventType being TDI_EVENT_CONNECT. So I...

dbghelp.h
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I want a utility to dump a stack trace. I found a utility requires dbghelp.h. That led me here. I tried to Install 32-bit version 6.2.13.1 (July 18, 2003) 8.6 MB In the license for all the versions...

memory allocation fails
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 4 Comments

My PC 1394 driver allocates memory when it receives packet. For my testing, I am allocating memory (each allocation 2k bytes). Memory allocation fails after 100 MB. My PC has 1 GB RAM and task...

1394 setup problem
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 11 Comments

I've got 2 xp machines and I'm trying to setup a 1394 connection between them 1) They will ping each other. So I know hardware works. I've disabled the 1394 host controller on the target I've got...

Test Please ignore
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Microsoft Test post

MiniportHalt and Timer
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 21 Comments

How do I have to handle MiniportHalt when I have a timer in my IM driver? here it what happends... Although I do NdisCancelTime before NdisIMDeInitializeDeviceInstance but it seems that the timer is...

scheduled Backup job does not run on Windows 2003 server
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Our daily scheduled backup tasks fail to start sporadically on Win 2003 Standard Edition. The Scheduled Tasks log shows the following message: "The attempt to retrieve account information for the...

Out of memory...
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hi folks, i've noticed a few systems that have the whole memory between 0xA0000 and 0xFFFFFFFF allocated by various hardware components. This causes the initialization function of my driver to fail,...

Reading Registry
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Which function could I use to read the content of the following registry...

Looking ror ddk for windows 2000
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Get the Windows Server 2003 DDK, this is the latest and has improved tools, samples and documentation. The cost is only the shipping cost ($15 in the US)...

How to prevent mountmgr from assigning an already used (network) drive letter?
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hello, mountmgr has the habbit to disregard already used network drive letters when it assigns a drive letter to my removable storage device driver. So it may happen that the driver gets a drive...

Query Vendor id from Disk Filter
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi, I need to query Vendor Id of a usb storage device from a upper class filter driver. I used IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY for the same. But it is not working. I am getting zero as VendorIdOffset....

How to get the current duplex mode of the adapt in IM driver?
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

hi: How to get the current duplex mode of the adapt that is auto-negotiated in IM driver?Is there any OID to request the current duplex mode ? I hope to write a program to the mode. But I...

How to generate network traffice in driver?
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

hi,all: I am ready to write a driver ( IM driver ) to generate network traffic. I hope I can control the flow : generate traffic with special bandwith, for example, 4Mbits/s with frame size 100...

add more pins to minidriver
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi, What are the step I need to go through to add additional input and output pins to a minidriver. I'm learning with testcap, so what do I need to do in order to add more input and output pins (to...

AVStream : raw audio pin
Posted on November 30th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Dear All, I implemented a raw audio pin into a video capture filter but I met one problem. I described it as following Q1: Cannot use AMCap to do audio capture. I cannot find the audio...

Print Processor -- Convert SPL file to EMF
Posted on November 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I've seen example source code to read an SPL file and extract the EMF files inside, but I've also read that this isn't a very robust method. I started looking into the API functions like...

Help printer driver
Posted on November 29th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi all, I need to write a driver for our printer. This printer is able to print text and graphic. I was having a look to oemuni and generic text only driver sample in the ddk but I was not able to...

Simple UniDriver question
Posted on November 29th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I've been searching for a few hours now and have found a lot of information, but nothing that really answers my newbie question: Is it possible, and how much work is required, to write a print...