Driver Studio 3.2 hang-up on WinXP

[leosmi05]

Just to make it more clear (this info is posted in all 3 threads):

If you have the latest Windows Updates installed (as of 24.02.05, MS05-15 is the latest), DriverStudio 3.1 or SoftICE 4.3.1 will WORK if you use the previous version of the NTOSKRNL.EXE, version 5.1.2600.1568 from 17.06.2004.

The update which is causing the problem is KB885835 which comes with a new NTOSKRNL.EXE, version 5.1.2600.1605 from 22.10.2004, and it seems that, for the moment, as of 24.02.2005, the OSINFO.DAT from Compuware's web site does not work with this NTOSKRNL.EXE.

You can find the old version in this directory: C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB885835$
(replace C:\WINDOWS with your actual path).

So, copy this NTOSKRNL.EXE to OLD_KRNL.EXE and add this line to your BOOT.INI:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional DS 3.1" /fastdetect /noguiboot /KERNEL=OLD_KRNL.EXE

Then just restart and whenever you want to run DS 3.1, just select the proper configuration
befre you start Windows.
:-)