How to check the target platform of sys file?

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Hi all, I just ported my driver from 32bit XP to 64bit Win7. I can
successfully build the driver, but when I install the generated sys
file to a Win7 box, it always complains that the driver is not
suitable to its platform.

I used the Win7 x64 checked build environment to build the driver and
install it into a machine with Intel Core i7 and Windows 7.

I’ve no idea how to debug this, so, can anyone help me out? Thanks.

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There is no Itanium version of Windows 7. That is available only for Server
2008. Maybe you should look for AMD.

“solotim” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…

Hi all, I just ported my driver from 32bit XP to 64bit Win7. I can
successfully build the driver, but when I install the generated sys
file to a Win7 box, it always complains that the driver is not
suitable to its platform.

I used the Win7 x64 checked build environment to build the driver and
install it into a machine with Intel Core i7 and Windows 7.

I’ve no idea how to debug this, so, can anyone help me out? Thanks.

3

Hi, I’m not trying to do anything with Itanium. I just want to install my driver into Win7 on intel i7 CPU. The system shows the error that “Driver not intended for this platform” when I install the driver.

So, did I miss something?

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Did you look at the setup logs? Did you update the inf for x64? Did you turn off signing checks?

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dent from a phpne with no keynoard

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Subject: RE:[ntdev] How to check the target platform of sys file?

Hi, I’m not trying to do anything with Itanium. I just want to install my driver into Win7 on intel i7 CPU. The system shows the error that “Driver not intended for this platform” when I install the driver.

So, did I miss something?

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I’ve updated the inf for x64; I’ve turned off the signing checks by this:
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON

Where can I get the logs of installing driver? Thanks.

2010/11/22 Doron Holan :
> Did you look at the setup logs? Did you update the inf for x64? ?Did you turn off signing checks?
>
> ?d
>
> dent from a phpne with no keynoard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@gmail.com
> Sent: November 21, 2010 11:23 PM
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: RE:[ntdev] How to check the target platform of sys file?
>
> Hi, I’m not trying to do anything with Itanium. I just want to install my driver into Win7 on intel i7 CPU. The system shows the error that “Driver not intended for this platform” when I install the driver.
>
> So, did I miss something?
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setupapi.log and setupapi.dev.log in your C:\Windows folders.

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“solotim” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Hi all, I just ported my driver from 32bit XP to 64bit Win7. I can
> successfully build the driver, but when I install the generated sys
> file to a Win7 box, it always complains that the driver is not
> suitable to its platform.
>
> I used the Win7 x64 checked build environment to build the driver and
> install it into a machine with Intel Core i7 and Windows 7.
>
> I’ve no idea how to debug this, so, can anyone help me out? Thanks.

A wrong INF file can cause this message.

To check the .sys file: open it in dependency viewer (depends.exe); verify
that
it is indeed x64, and other image attributes are similar to
in-box .sys files of win7 (subsystem version, linker version etc.)

–pa

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solotim wrote:

Hi all, I just ported my driver from 32bit XP to 64bit Win7. I can
successfully build the driver, but when I install the generated sys
file to a Win7 box, it always complains that the driver is not
suitable to its platform.

I used the Win7 x64 checked build environment to build the driver and
install it into a machine with Intel Core i7 and Windows 7.

Are you actually running the 64-bit version of Windows 7? Remember
that, even though the Core i7 is a 64-bit processor, it will still run
the 32-bit version of Windows 7, and you can’t load a 64-bit driver there.

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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.