DriverStudio 3.2

softice from ds 3.1 works pretty good under the SP2, but it doesnt work on the XP 32bit + SP2 and XP 64bit

but there are always other tools, like windbg , olly

[peleon]

Yes, there are always other debugging tools though most of us are quite immersed in Softice to accept other debuggers And if you want to debug from kernel, Softice is almost the only solution (at least you have two computers to remotelly debug with Windbg...not easy for a poor guy like me )

I also have problems with SP2. I guess that they have paid more attention to those WinXP incompatibilities in this new release.

Regards.

There is a way, how to use softice from ds 3.1 with XP32+SP2 and AMD64/IL64 CPU.
For this reason you have to edit boot.ini and change: noexecute=optin
to: noexecute=alwaysoff.
This modification will disables Physical Address Extension (PAE) and the softice can start.

Just 2 let people know who maybe forget or never read the announcement topics, v3.2 is on his way 2 the ftp.

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I read, it is also possible to activate PAE on Win2000+SP4+AMD64.
But with XPSP2, Mirosoft has activated PAE to make windows more secure.
It could be, that some other system-tools will not work with WXP+SP2+AMD64, so you have to disable it in boot.ini

@panzer22:
Are you sure you understood what PAE is used for? PAE is an extension which was introduced to allow CPUs to access more than 4 GB of RAM, by increasing the maximum addressable memory location from 32 bits to 36 bits (so a total of 64 GB RAM is addressable).

It has nothing to do with the execution prevention introduced in WinXP SP2 and doesn't make Windows more or less secure in any way. In fact, the PAE extension has been available since WinNT 4.0 SP3 came out.

[Sky]

That all meens - If I'm upgrade my WinXP+SP1 (+MSBlast protection) to SP2, PAE will be turned ON, event with 768Mb RAM? And I'll have to turn it off by my hands...
Becouse all says that they hav'd this problem... Or Somebodys turn On Some Security tools (MS Firewall, Automatic Updates \I've turned them off\, ...)?