>I load the Intel 82* chipset support. Then the system hangs while trying to
log in. If I run the “free” version of HAL/Kernel, everything wakes up
normally.
Wasn’t the Intel 82x chipset the one that had a memory integrity problem
under some conditions? I think assuming it’s NOT a hardware problem may be
optimistic. I recently had the experience of spending 2 weeks looking at a
bug in a driver that turned out to be a rare glitch in my driver target
machine (only under certain test conditions while running 2 processors).
Hardware diagnostics didn’t find the glitch, the checked build didn’t
either. Modifying my driver to compare actual vs. expected data patterns
after an I/O transfer finally found it.
I think the first rule of debugging a driver should be “does the system
your doing testing on correctly run the OS and certified drivers”? For me
this means the checked build runs fine and the system run the WHQL stress
tests for days without failure.
- Jan