Driver Studio 3.2 hang-up on WinXP

I think JMI did already "review" you. When I warned you about your posts, you had a post count of 14. Now you have a post count of 8.

will try with time the old kernel trick since .. that could be the cause as you explained? i will try later but i didn't used any boot.ini trick before as i mentioned.. maybe was some .dat replacement to make DS 3.1 work.. but not sure .. will let you know.. will give a try those .ini changes explained here to see if work.... to MArKuso ... what trick worked for you??

and about Icext ..i didn't have it installed and DS 3.2 had same problem.. happends with latest version of icext installed or not .. icext (latest version) runs fine for me.

Regards

confirmed the OLD Kernel tricks works.. unfortanely iceext67 is not doing the hidden job very well..... FTPRush (armadillo) exit with some error Code after loading DS 3.2 + iceext

Best Regards

Stepping back to an older kernel is not even necessary. I am running DS 3.01 on the most current XP. All you have to do is:

- Download latest WinDbg (free download from Microsoft) and install it.
- Pick symsrv.dll from WinDbg installation and replace the older version in the DS installation folder with it. Note: There are at least two instances of symsrv.dll in the DS folders.
- Run the DS symbol retriever. Configure output path etc. to your liking, then pick NTOSKRNL.EXE, ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll, user32.dll from your Windows/System32 directory and add them to the list of files.
- Download appropriate debug symbol files from MS and let the symbol retriever translate them to *.nms (Numega symbol format) - this may take a bit of time and the symbol retriever isn't too talkative about the progress. Just be patient until the program has done its work
- Run the DS setup program, add the following line to the advanced settings:
NTSYMBOLS=ON
- add the previously generated nms files to the list of symbols to import for SI.
- Download latest osinfo.dat just to make sure and replace the outdated file in your Windows/System32/Drivers (IIRC)
- Save the settings and reboot your comp.
- Open a dosbox, enter "net start ntice" and there ya go.

P.S. I am currently fiddling with IceExt in combination with a total conversion of SoftICE - I'll let you know when (if) I find a way to make it work properly.