this is a driver hang but not from portio.sys... it is most certainly caused
by something not being kosher in the soundcard driver. as rob said, check out
the latest stuff he has checked in.
elrod
Chad Loder wrote:
> Sorry to flood the group like this, but these issues have been building
> up in my head, and I figured it would be good to have them all in
> separate threads because they are unrelated.
>
> Occasionally FreeAmp will hang when I'm playing around with the GUI
> (intense fiddling with the seeker or the track advance buttons can
> cause the hang about 90% of the time). When it hangs, the only thing that
> seems to still work in the GUI is the mouseover color changes on the
> buttons.
>
> When I am attached to the process via the debugger, and Freeamp hangs,
> it hangs so hard that choosing "Debug | Break" causes the debugger to
> hang. Similarly, trying to kill the process via the Task Manager
> causes the Task Manager itself to hang. This behavior is transitive,
> meaning that if I bring up another task manager and try to kill the
> debugger or first task manager, the *new* task manager hangs too! This
> also happens with kill.exe (from the MKS Toolkit) and listdlls.exe
> (from www.sysinternals.com).
>
> I haven't tried SoftIce yet, I've usually found it to be a little more
> stable.
>
> I am assuming that this is not a normal deadlock (never had a problem
> doing a debug break on those) or infinite loop (CPU is at 0%). I assume
> it's in a low-level component (driver-level), possibly this portio.sys
> thing?
>
> I am using a dual CPU machine, which might explain why nobody else is
> complaining about this (maybe the driver can't handle the increased
> concurrency). I did see one bug in the database regarding a hang, but
> it was supposedly fixed and checked in some time ago.
>
> I am running NT 4 SP5, btw. Has anyone else seen this? Any debugging
> tips?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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