Help.I would die of rebooting.

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Hi:
I am debuging a ndis driver over serial port.
What I do is modifying codes,copy it to system directory and rebooting.

I wonder if I can avoid to reboot my win2k computer.(To reboot costs me 3 minutes)

Thanks.
Paul

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Yes, provided your driver can unload successfully. Just disable all instances of your device using DeviceManager, DevCon, or some other similar tool and when you reenable the device(s) the new driver will be picked up. Now, if your driver does not successfully unload, which can be hard to tell sometimes, then the new driver will not be picked up. This usually happens if there is an outstanding reference to a device object, or an IRP of some such. Hope this helps.

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Bill McKenzie

“Paul” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
Hi:
I am debuging a ndis driver over serial port.
What I do is modifying codes,copy it to system directory and rebooting.

I wonder if I can avoid to reboot my win2k computer.(To reboot costs me 3 minutes)

Thanks.
Paul