Well, I got a problem with Windows

[websurfingdude]

Well, I got a problem with Windows XP Pro and my YAMAHA DS-XG YMF724 sound card.

When I play games, system suddenly reboots or freezes after a fixed amount of time (a game which causes the system to reboot/freeze after 20 minutes always do so). Some days ago I decided to find the problem.

Initially, I viewed the Events Log, and I figured out that the problem was caused by a bugcheck. So I disabled the "auto reboot on blue screen" feature and I tried again. I had a BSoD when playing. The error message was:

STOP:0xD1 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

After that I visited Microsoft's Knowledgebase archive to find a solution. Microsoft says, the problem is caused by a driver which uses a wrong IRQL address. Also Driver Verifier is associated with the problem. To resolve it, it's sufficient to verify if the hardware is in the HCL (hardware compatibility list).

I searched in the Windows Catalog (ex HCL) and I found my hardware is compatible (Yamaha DS-XG WDM).

Previously, I had downloaded latest Yamaha drivers from Windows Update.

But I couldn't know how to proceed. I encountered problems:

- Yamaha official XP drivers (not signed) for the YMF724 model are at version 5.12.01.5244

- Microsoft's XP drivers (digitally signed) for the YMF724 model are at a newer version, 5.2.3662.0. They also contain the main driver (ds1wdm.sys) which was released by Yamaha but claims to be XP compatible as it's signed "Windows Compatibility Hardware Publisher".

I think Microsoft's Yamaha XP main driver (ds1wdm.sys) is a digitally-signed "rip" from 5.12.01.5244 official drivers as the problem persists with both.

Another strange fact: when looking to Windows Update's XP drivers (version 5.2.3662.0), available at
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http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/rtf/drivers/4005718.htm

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I found "Unsupported Yamaha audio codec". So I thought 'what does this mean?' - and I wanted to verify if my codecs were compatible or not. Windows said, audio codecs are active, but are not properly working. Probably this is the problem that still persists.

But it's very strange: if the audio codecs are not compatible, the entire hardware WILL have problems when communicating with the OS. So, why do Microsoft say that hardware is 100% XP compatible (they do have the "Designed for Windows XP" logo) when its drivers don't ? DAMNIT!!

Please help me. Thanks in advance.

websurfingdude

 

[edemiere]

Try reading:

thread779-598589

 

[websurfingdude]

Thank you edemiere, but I was not referring to the error message IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, whose error code is STOP:0x0A, but to DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, whose error code is STOP:0xD1.

That's different . The first is not caused by a peripheral driver, but the second is.

Can anyone else help me ?

 

[smah]

First, what makes you think it's the yamaha sound card that's causing this? It could be a damaged pagefile or a bad device driver. If you're sure it's the soundcard, try rolling back the driver in device manager. You may also want to look at this

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0xd1

 

[websurfingdude]

"First, what makes you think it's the yamaha sound card that's causing this?"

I'm pretty sure that my sound card is causing the problem. To verify that, I got Microsoft's Driver Verifier. As the problem was regarding IRQL addresses, I enabled the "IRQL Address Control" and set Driver Verifier to do the test on the card's main driver (ds1wdm.sys). I gtot no results, so I thought 'maybe the card is OK'. To get more proofs, I enabled all tests (except for the 'insufficient system resources' one) and rebooted the system. So: Windows rebooted, but when the system services loaded, system suddenly rebooted without prior notice (blue screen or so). I went to Safe Mode and started Driver Verifier. No results again. I disabled the tests and tried to close Windows. When the logoff window was displayed, and system was gonna be powered down, a BSoD appeared. It was saying "a peripheral driver tried to damage the system. System halted.".

And so I finally realized my sound card was causing problems.

Three days ago I contacted Yamaha's L.S.I. support but I got no response so far.

Help!!