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August 2007 - Posts

Root Causing a Not Reproducible KMDF Installation Issue- part 3: Pay Dirt!

I'll begin by recapping where we've been. In part 1 , an interesting installation issue was reported- interesting in that it was 100% reproducible on customer machines scattered about Europe, but not all such machines, and neither we nor the IHV who reported

Root causing a not reproducible KMDF installation issue- part 2: Not stupid, merely human

In the last installment, we had a workaround, so people could get on with their lives. BUT , there's still that problem of an access violation of unknown origin that happens every time we try to install KMDF 1.1 on a machine a continent or two away...

Return of the console

Shortly after the announcement was made of the extension of the XBox 360 warranty to three years for general hardware failures and the 1 billion dollar charge for repair of same, my own console, which was just a couple of months past the old one year

Root causing a not reproducible KMDF installation issue- part 1: Looking for trouble, finding it, and working around it

Working in the Windows Driver Frameworks QA department has its challenges. One of them for me has been that occasionally there is a paucity of the interesting problems that make for an intense workday. Since those are the days you write code or blog,
 
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