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How Windows uses physical memory I'm trying to settle a debate with someone about how Windows (32bit) allocates memory. In short, my opponent seems to think that ALL applications will be swapped in and out of the SAME 2 GB of *physical* memory. I suggested that this was nonsense and instead the OS will use whatever physical memory it has available... 22 May 2008 11:45
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA I'm getting a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA bug check when trying to read from an address that should be valid. This happens in a thread that is running at passive level. I'm reading from device memory with a base virtual address of 0xa8b9b000. So the memory I'm trying to read is well within the virtual addres... 21 May 2008 19:07
HalClearSoftwareInterrupt - why is this interrupting my app? Hi, I write userland programs (not device drivers) but I think you guys might be able to help. Why is my application being interrupted by HalClearSoftwareInterrupt? The interruptions are slow, only happen after an hour, and only happen in certain functions. When these certain functions are not called, I ... 23 May 2008 20:09
DriverInstallPackagesW fails to create driver store entry When installing our driver package as part of our software installation, the DifxApp InstallDriverPackages() failes with error code 82 (0x52). More precisely it fails in DriverPackageInstallW and gives the following error: DIFXAPP: ERROR: Create Driver Store entry failed. (Error code 0x6E: The system cannot open... 31 May 2008 14:50
error C1017: invalid integer constant expression The build system is complaining about the error on line 14 of commdlg.h of WDK libraries, which pointed to this line: #if(WINVER >= 0x0500) My question is WINVER isn't declared as anything other than an integer, so I'm confused why the build system is throwing an error like that after reading the description on ... 21 May 2008 13:37
Driver Installation Windows Vista Hi, We are using DDK 6001.17121 . we tried to install src\kmdf\echo driver in Windows Wista Buisiness Edition. We have only put some "kdprint" to trace DriverEntry. As per the documentaton, We used add hardware wizard to install the driver. I am not getting any prints in DbgView . Driver gets installed but... 22 May 2008 18:03
ReadFile() fails with error Incorrect Parameter I am trying to call ReadFile() on a handle for a USB storage device, however, ReadFile() returns false everytime with the error code: "Parameter is Incorrect." The handle that I create via CreateFile is valid Here's where I create the handle (returns a valid handle for my device) hDevice = CreateFile( d... 21 May 2008 23:02
When will vista display report "Invalid display settings" When I create a source and destination and link them with a path in VidPN part of a vista dispaly driver, everything seems go smoothly, except following message popups when I open display panel: "The currenttly selected graphics display driver can not be used, It was written for a previous version of Windows, and ... 22 May 2008 21:58
INF for 2008 x64 Hi, I have an INF file for a 32/64-bit driver which works fine on 2003 x86/x64 and 2008 x86. Server 2008 x64 does not recognize the INF saying that the folder does not contain a compatible software driver for my device. I enabled TESTSIGNING and signed the CAT with a WHQL test signature, but that didn't help... 23 May 2008 04:14
Activesync device question Hi I've tried two Windows Mobile Phone, use Activesync USB connection, I found they catch different PC Windows driver : (1) Phone #1 become a Windows CE USB device, use PC driver wceusbsh.inf and wceusbsh.sys (2) Phone #2 become a Network device, use PC driver WceRndis.inf and usb8023y.sys ... 21 May 2008 12:03 |