Hardware & Devices

I get blue screen on my system

16-Sep-09 6:13

Any modern BIOS on your motherboard should be able to do that by itself. I don't know of a UPS that will. All it can do is supply the power and inform any connected device about the state of the UPS. It's up to the machine to maintain it's power state.

Every ASUS motherboard I've had has a "Power State" setting with an option of "Last AC state". If the power on the machine was on, when power came back, it would turn itself back on.

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Re: UPS turn on computer

Mekong River16-Sep-09 16:53

Mekong River

16-Sep-09 16:53

Dear Dav,

Thank you very much for your answer. I will try to check my computer BIOS setting. But I think it won't work because this computer is a little bit old (one purchase in 2003 and another one is purchase in 2007).

Thank for your answer!!!

OmiAshish14-Sep-09 17:57

OmiAshish

14-Sep-09 17:57

i get blue screen on my system many time in a day no time limit
or my ram and harddrive is working well on another system wats the problame is there.
Give me good suggestion

Re: I get blue screen on my system

Richard MacCutchan14-Sep-09 21:46

Re: I get blue screen on my system

14-Sep-09 21:46

AnupOmi wrote:
Give me good suggestion

Check the information on the screen and look for clues as to what is wrong. I don't think we have any psychics here.

Luc Pattyn16-Sep-09 4:11

Luc Pattyn

16-Sep-09 4:11

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
I don't think we have any psychics here.

I think we do. The odds are extremely low there wouldn't be any amongst 6,464,695 members. However they may not be reading the question, or not be good enough and operate without a tiny bit of hard information.

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Re: I get blue screen on my system

Richard MacCutchan17-Sep-09 4:47

WinUsb VS6 C++ Compatability

17-Sep-09 4:47

If they are psychic then they shouldn't need to read the question; they will just know Cool | :cool:

Parker M cCauley10-Sep-09 7:55

Parker M cCauley

10-Sep-09 7:55

I have a legacy app using VC 6 MFC and Codejjock 9.8 (not really relevant I don't think)
The program is broken into several pieces that communicate with each other via COM.
I am attempting to add USB support to a custom board. I have written a simple console test program that Uses WinUsb_WritePipe, Read Pipe. All is fine. When I incorporate the headers and calls into my legacy app I can;t get it to link. I either get duplicate symbol defined _WINUSB_TEST or unable to find uuid.lib, or a few others depending the order of the includes.

I should note I am statically linking MFC, building a debug build, and the wrapper USB class is usigng overlapped IO and is Multi Threaded (a seperate thread handles the IO with Thread Safe Queues buffering the data.

My gut tells me this is an incompatability with the libraries. Microsoft stopped supporting the SDK for VS6 in 2003. The DDK is 6001.1802.

I see a couple of options... Seperate the WinUsb code into a dll and hope the lib generated will link in with the main program.

Recompile everything using VS2008. I have been avoiding this for 2 reasons.
1. I have experimented with VS.net, 2003, 2005 and MFC support seemed to get worse as did the GUI's.
2. The real reason. THe programs combined have nearly 500KLocs of code. There are a lot of CStrings and the scope of x in for(int x=0; x < y; x++) statetents. All of which are problematic with the new compilers.

Any suggestions or help where I may be missing the boat would be greatly appreciated

Re: WinUsb VS6 C++ Compatability

bolivar12310-Sep-09 9:03

bolivar123

10-Sep-09 9:03

Some suggestions if you decide to build it all in VS2008.....

The VS2008 CString class has a few quirks that were not there in VC6. The new MFC CString class is a lot more strict about index parameters going into functions like Mid, Left, Right, etc. What I ended up doing is derive my own subclass from CString and implement my own Left, Right, Mid, etc. handlers where my handlers would validate the index parameter(s) before calling the base class CString functions. I also did a little compiler gymnastics in redefining CString to CMyCString so as to not need to change every reference to CString in my project.

As for the for scope problem, there is a compiler switch that overrides the for scope compliance rule. Use the /Zc:forScope- compiler switch to turn off the for scope checking.

Out of curiosity, why are you statically linking MFC in a debug build?

Re: WinUsb VS6 C++ Compatability

Parker M cCauley10-Sep-09 13:11

Parker M cCauley

10-Sep-09 13:11

I statically link the MFC DLL in release mode because I have found it makes deployment more robust. This program started with VS 1.52 if you can believe that, and has morphed and been factored, etc. Major Requirements creep. Over the years the differences in mfc dlls that were on win 95, 98, 98se, etc caused support issues. I am not really sure why I an doing it in the debug version to be honest other than for consistency. I have tried it both ways and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Is there a reason not to statically link the MFC DLL in debug mode?

Back to the original question, I am thinking that using a dynamically linked (loaded) dll might get around the issue? Your thoughts?

Computer still prompt to set date and time

Mekong River9-Sep-09 17:40

Mekong River

9-Sep-09 17:40

Hi, my computer is running out of CMOS battery while its first use around 4 years. Then I bough the new battery around 4 month ago. Last week when i turn on my computer, i found that the date and time is not set. I think the battery is running out so I purchase the new battery. But after I replace to the new battery and set the date and time after I turn off and turn on again its still ask me to set the date again.

So I think this is not relate to battery. Could anyone let me know what is the cause of the problem that cause my computer to prompt for date and time setting everytime that I start up my desktop computer?

Thank in advance!!!

Dave Kreskowiak10-Sep-09 4:35

10-Sep-09 4:35

Bad motherboard.

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Richard MacCutchan10-Sep-09 9:40

10-Sep-09 9:40

Shouldn't that read "bad mother" WTF | :WTF:

Dave Kreskowiak10-Sep-09 13:48

10-Sep-09 13:48

It could even have been "bad baby-mama". Big Grin | :-D

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Mekong River10-Sep-09 17:33

Mekong River

10-Sep-09 17:33

Are there any solution to fix it?

Dave Kreskowiak10-Sep-09 18:16

10-Sep-09 18:16

Replace it.

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related to cd drive

jainiraj9-Sep-09 4:37

jainiraj

9-Sep-09 4:37

hi..
my cd drive is not working.Problem is that when a cd is inserted then no drive or icon of CD is shown.It is sudden problem in my system.One thing I want to add that when i start my system then a message is here that "Insert or rebbot your machine".
plz help me.....
thanks in adv.

Re: related to cd drive

Richard MacCutchan9-Sep-09 5:42

wireless router ip address

9-Sep-09 5:42

jainiraj wrote:
"Insert or rebbot your machine".

Can you remember the exact wording of the message as this does not really make sense? Can you access the CD through Windows Explorer, or access its properties through Device Manager?

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8-Sep-09 10:16

thanks in adv.

Connecting to a wireless router which is not connected to any pc it directly connected to the outer unit which is getting signal , does this router would have any ip address if yes then how can i get /ping

well i tired ipconfig and stats are
dhcp enabled : Yes
autoconfig. Enables : Yes
IP Address : 192.168.0.6

and it has DHCP Address and DNS Address but this is my pc config. how can i get to know abt the ip address of router

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Re: wireless router ip address

Richard MacCutchan8-Sep-09 12:21

Re: wireless router ip address

8-Sep-09 12:21

The IP addresses listed under DHCP/DNS should be the addresses of the router. Assuming you are on Windows you can find this by viewing the properties of the wireless network connection for your system.

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εїзεїзεїз

8-Sep-09 22:18

it worked thanks

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What's a device driver.

_80865-Sep-09 2:56

_8086

5-Sep-09 2:56

Ok I googled the basics. Don't worry.

But still I'm not getting it. That's the problem. Please see if I'm getting it right.

First let me explain a situation without Device Driver:

ANY device that wants to be controlled through PC has a firmware written on top of it(On the device side itself). The devices gives us the option to control through PORTS. like serial/USB. We can control these devices by knowing the f/w spec. If we know the firmware spec, we can send direct commands through a port application and communicate with device. For example, I create a RS232 application and ask the printer to do any job I want assuming I know it's firmware spec. Here no drivers are needed.

With Driver:

When do we need a driver? If we want any application to talk to the device. Right? So we get the firmware spec and implement all I/O in a common driver dll and we keep this port I/O implementation functions into the driver and the OS maps the application calls through this driver right? How does this work? Can I write my own device driver to control the mouse? Can you explain/give link to know the sequence? Please Don't give examples with driver frameworks. I want to know the underlying basics. Thanks in advance.

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Luc Pattyn5-Sep-09 3:48

Luc Pattyn

5-Sep-09 3:48

without a specific driver your app might be able to interact with a peripheral, provided the peripheral uses a hardware interface that is supported by some general-purpose driver (e.g. for serial ports), and you implement all the peripheral-specific stuff yourself inside your app. That may solve the problem for one app using a (simple) peripheral one at a time.

with a driver you can use peripherals that could be shared (e.g. your LAN) and where incoming data gets to the interested party, you can apply protocols that need to be implemented only once (e.g. TCP/IP), and you can easily isolate your apps' problems from the drivers' problems. Would you like to have each and every app on your system to fiddle with the sectors of your disk?

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_80865-Sep-09 19:43

_8086

5-Sep-09 19:43

Thanks for your reply.

Luc Pattyn wrote:
without a specific driver your app might be able to interact with a peripheral, provided the peripheral uses a hardware interface that is supported by some general-purpose driver (e.g. for serial ports),

So if we write to a port using CreateFile, will that be using Serial-Driver? The serial driver gets loaded when you connect some device in the port or it's running always?

Also, does all hardware have the firmware on top for driver communication? Can any device without f/w be controlled by drivers alone?

Let me get little more simpler. Assume I have motor running in a device. Now I need to write a driver that handles the RMP of it. I want to read/ control the RPM.. What are the sequence required? Lot more to ask actually. I will ask.

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Luc Pattyn6-Sep-09 0:43

Luc Pattyn

6-Sep-09 0:43

_8086 wrote:
So if we write to a port using CreateFile, will that be using Serial-Driver?

yes. a serial driver, there could be more than one e.g. one for the standard serial ports based on 16550 device, one for a specific USB-to-serial cable, etc. And there could even be more than one stacked on top of each other.

if by "device without firmware" you mean a dumb peripheral needing all its control from PC, that could be a bad idea; there was a time floppy drives had no intelligence, and interrupted the CPU for every byte transferred, that is once every 6 microseconds. You may remember Win98 with floppy activity didn't do anything else while a transfer was going on.

IMO peripherals need sufficient intelligence so they can left alone for 1 millisecond or more; so don't consider a PC driving a stepper motor; use a microcontroller for that.

Last advice: read some books and some articles on the subject.

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