BSOD and Driver verifier

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Hi -

Erratic behaviour - freezing during an otherwise ok connection - of my
diallup connection led me to suspect a faulty driver.

I ran Verify with all drivers selected, and sure enough I got the BSOD
at boot up, telling me that one of my drivers was making an illegal DMA.

Verify is supposed to tell you which driver, but it didn't! I got STOP:
0x000000E6. Went to MS website and looked at the stuff on Verifier, but
no listing for this error.

I suppose I have to use Verifier on a small number of drivers at a
time, but it will take an age.

Anyone know anything about this kind of thing? I mean, does it sometimes
give false positives?

TIA

Tony

 

[Guest]

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Hi Tony,
Restart your pc, tap (repeat) F8 Function key, select the option to use
start "with Boot logging".
Then later on you can review "NTBTLOG.TXT" file -- in your window-directory
folder --( \WINNT or \WINDOWS).

And when Windows allows a login, login as administrator or with
admin-rights (if you can).
Go into your Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | System icon |
System properties | "Advanced" TAB and
in the "Startup and Recovery" section....click the "settings" button.
"Un-check" the "automatically restart" line.

These are hopefully, some ideas to get you going, and find the problem area.
--
Maurice N
MVP Windows - Shell / User
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"Tony Stanford" wrote
>
> Hi -
>
> Erratic behaviour - freezing during an otherwise ok connection - of my
> diallup connection led me to suspect a faulty driver.
>
> I ran Verify with all drivers selected, and sure enough I got the BSOD at
> boot up, telling me that one of my drivers was making an illegal DMA.
>
> Verify is supposed to tell you which driver, but it didn't! I got STOP:
> 0x000000E6. Went to MS website and looked at the stuff on Verifier, but no
> listing for this error.
>
> I suppose I have to use Verifier on a small number of drivers at a time,
> but it will take an age.
>
> Anyone know anything about this kind of thing? I mean, does it sometimes
> give false positives?
>
> TIA
>
> Tony