O&O DriveLed 2.0 Crashes the whole Machine
posted by Metalloy on Aug 26, 2007
Installed O&O on an IBM Z61p Thinkpad, with a 100G HDD SATA (with AHCI enabled in BIOS). After re-start, XP crashes with BSOD at startup indicating a driver failure. Tried several times and the symptom is rock solid. However O&O DriveLed 2.0 worked fine on my previous Thinkpad (T43p with 100G IDE).
Comment by Metalloy, posted on Sep 06, 2007
Complete Crash. The XP boots up normally till the logon and then opens the desktop normally for a very breif duration ... I guess while its loading the DriveLED services. Then just before the point where the LEDs should show up the whole thing crashes with a Blue Screen with the error pointing to the failure of some service driver (something that looked like xxxstore.xx as far as I remember ... sorry that I didnt record it). The symptom is very solid and very repetitive.
P.S. My guess is that it has something to do with the SATA AHCI BIOS drivers of the Z61p that the DriveLED does not support and that its drivers attempt to hack or over-write a critical memory area which brings XP to its knees.
P.S. My guess is that it has something to do with the SATA AHCI BIOS drivers of the Z61p that the DriveLED does not support and that its drivers attempt to hack or over-write a critical memory area which brings XP to its knees.
Comment by Metalloy, posted on Sep 06, 2007
Thanks for your support
Comment by Metalloy, posted on Sep 07, 2007
Hey, thanks for your support, but it seems that I completely confused you. I do not have a problem with my XP, I have a problem only with DriveLED 2. The crash I have happens only with DriveLED installed. I just un-install it and my XP and all my other applications run butter-smooth. I also emphasize that the problem is with DriveLED running on MY SPECIFIC platform (combination of Thinkpad Z61p / SATA drive with AHCI under XP-Pro-SP2), becuase it was running without problems on my previous machine (which had a legacy IDE drive) and with the same application mix I still have today.
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posted on Sep 02, 2007
WizWhen you say crashed do you mean completely or is it whirling at the 1st boot up for example XP bios area?.
Comment by Paeroa, posted on Sep 07, 2007
You can try inserting the installation disk for WINXP let it boot up at the onset from your CDROM Drive. Allow the CD to go through all the motions of installation until the final screen then press R for console. At the DOS prompt type chkdsk /p to allow Windows to fix up the problem. After it finishes take the disc out and boot up if she goes your OK if not uninstall everything you installed at the beginning everything goes back to normal then reinstall again. Tedious I know but if you get it right this time you wont be needing to come back here for the same thing.
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