XP Pro immediately crashes

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George McMurtry

Sometime within the last 6 to 8 weeks, a change was made
by MS to XP Professional. We buy Gateway computers with
XP Pro as the operating system. We believe MS has started
putting some of the features of Service Pack 1 into the
standard XP release. Our software (that has a unique DSP
card driver, TI chip set, written in assembler) will no
longer load and causes XP Pro to immediately crash. This
was working fine on XP Pro just 6 weeks ago. We know that
our driver will not load if Service Pack 1 is installed
and so we are trying to find out what MS has added to XP
to cause this crashing to happen and can it be removed.
We can still operate on Windows 2000 and NT so this is not
a hardware problem with Gateway, it is definitely some
change to the XP Pro operating system. Has anyone else
experienced this or know of this problem and a potential
solution?
 
Once Microsoft releases either an operating system or service pack
to manufacturing, no changes are made to the final release (build).
Only downloading and installing "Critical Updates" from the Windows
Update web site will update operating system or service pack files.
You may wish to investigate which critical update may be causing
a problem with your software program.

Many computer manufacturers have been shipping their
computers with SP1 already integrated with Windows XP
for several months now. So your new Gateway computers
are likely to have SP1 already installed. To verify, right-click
on My Computer and select Properties.

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.labmice.net/WindowsXP/TroubleshootingXP/default.htm

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Nicholas

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"George McMurtry" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message:


| Sometime within the last 6 to 8 weeks, a change was made
| by MS to XP Professional. We buy Gateway computers with
| XP Pro as the operating system. We believe MS has started
| putting some of the features of Service Pack 1 into the
| standard XP release. Our software (that has a unique DSP
| card driver, TI chip set, written in assembler) will no
| longer load and causes XP Pro to immediately crash. This
| was working fine on XP Pro just 6 weeks ago. We know that
| our driver will not load if Service Pack 1 is installed
| and so we are trying to find out what MS has added to XP
| to cause this crashing to happen and can it be removed.
| We can still operate on Windows 2000 and NT so this is not
| a hardware problem with Gateway, it is definitely some
| change to the XP Pro operating system. Has anyone else
| experienced this or know of this problem and a potential
| solution?
 
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