Win NT 4/Celeron/Plug and Play BIOS

Devs,

I have a customer who is trying to install one of our PCI cards on a Celeron
system that has a Plug and Play BIOS, and he says he can’t turn off the Plug
and Play feature of the BIOS. Does a PnP bios play well with NT 4? The
board runs OK in a machine with a Pentium processor. I don’t fully
understand what the PnP BIOS is doing or not doing that could mess up our
card or driver under Win NT 4. I would not be surprised to find out that
NT4 and a Plug and Play BIOS are not compatible.

The other problem he saw was in the Event Viewer:

“The HPPDIDriver service failed to start
due to the following error: Attempt to access invalid address.”

I looked this up in the Microsoft documentation and found:

Error Message:
Attempt to access invalid address.

User Action:
Contact the supplier of the running application

Which in this case is me, so it does little to help me understand the
problem. Does this sound like a familiar problem to anyone?

Thanks,

Evan Hillman


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I have a customer who is trying to install one of our PCI cards on a
Celeron system that has a Plug and Play BIOS, and he says he can’t
turn off the Plug and Play feature of the BIOS.

Increasingly, it seems, computers are hitting the field that are
incompatible w/ NT4. This is of course a limitation in the BIOS,
but NT4 relies on the BIOS to map pci devices. I’m starting to see
this problem myself.

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Evan,

The event viewer item likely appeared because DriverEntry() returned a
non-success status code. Best bet is to hook up WinDbg and step through it
to find out exactly what call is failing in DriverEntry().

-Tim

Timothy A. Johns — xxxxx@driverdev.com
Driver Development Corporation — 800.841.0092
Bring Up Your Hardware — Fast. www.driverdev.com

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Subject: [ntdev] Win NT 4/Celeron/Plug and Play BIOS

Devs,

I have a customer who is trying to install one of our PCI cards
on a Celeron
system that has a Plug and Play BIOS, and he says he can’t turn
off the Plug
and Play feature of the BIOS. Does a PnP bios play well with NT 4? The
board runs OK in a machine with a Pentium processor. I don’t fully
understand what the PnP BIOS is doing or not doing that could mess up our
card or driver under Win NT 4. I would not be surprised to find out that
NT4 and a Plug and Play BIOS are not compatible.

The other problem he saw was in the Event Viewer:

“The HPPDIDriver service failed to start
due to the following error: Attempt to access invalid address.”

I looked this up in the Microsoft documentation and found:

Error Message:
Attempt to access invalid address.

User Action:
Contact the supplier of the running application

Which in this case is me, so it does little to help me understand the
problem. Does this sound like a familiar problem to anyone?

Thanks,

Evan Hillman


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I have seen a similar problem here and the problem was that as long as the
bios was in Plug n Play mode my call to register/assign the system resources
failed.

I had to turn of the plug n play feature of the bios to get it to work

Ramit

----- Original Message -----
From: “Timothy A. Johns”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Win NT 4/Celeron/Plug and Play BIOS

> Evan,
>
> The event viewer item likely appeared because DriverEntry() returned a
> non-success status code. Best bet is to hook up WinDbg and step through
it
> to find out exactly what call is failing in DriverEntry().
>
> -Tim
>
> Timothy A. Johns — xxxxx@driverdev.com
> Driver Development Corporation — 800.841.0092
> Bring Up Your Hardware — Fast. www.driverdev.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> > [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Evan Hillman
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:04 PM
> > To: NT Developers Interest List
> > Subject: [ntdev] Win NT 4/Celeron/Plug and Play BIOS
> >
> >
> > Devs,
> >
> > I have a customer who is trying to install one of our PCI cards
> > on a Celeron
> > system that has a Plug and Play BIOS, and he says he can’t turn
> > off the Plug
> > and Play feature of the BIOS. Does a PnP bios play well with NT 4? The
> > board runs OK in a machine with a Pentium processor. I don’t fully
> > understand what the PnP BIOS is doing or not doing that could mess up
our
> > card or driver under Win NT 4. I would not be surprised to find out
that
> > NT4 and a Plug and Play BIOS are not compatible.
> >
> > The other problem he saw was in the Event Viewer:
> >
> > “The HPPDIDriver service failed to start
> > due to the following error: Attempt to access invalid address.”
> >
> > I looked this up in the Microsoft documentation and found:
> >
> >
> > Error Message:
> > Attempt to access invalid address.
> >
> > User Action:
> > Contact the supplier of the running application
> >
> >
> > Which in this case is me, so it does little to help me understand the
> > problem. Does this sound like a familiar problem to anyone?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Evan Hillman
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> I have a customer who is trying to install one of our PCI cards on a
Celeron

system that has a Plug and Play BIOS, and he says he can’t turn off the
Plug
and Play feature of the BIOS. Does a PnP bios play well with NT 4? The

Setting “PnP OS = No” in BIOS is a MUST for NT4 (otherwise,
HalAssignSlotResources behaves badly) and recommended on w2k by Microsoft
too.

Max


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