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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:	FDDI - The Next Generation

Moderator:	NETCAD::STEFANI

Created:	Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2259
Total number of notes:	8590

2062.0. "Defpa and Winnt 3.51 on axp 200 4/166" by ROMTSS::MATTACCHIONE () Tue Jun 11 1996 11:43

Hi,

our customer have installed on his machine a defpa.

This have a little problem:
If he make a shutdown/restart procedure the machine don't login into the 
system and goes in hangs.

If after the shutdown he made a power off/on and boot the machine function
correctly.

The driver used DEFPA.SYS is dated 12/12/94.

I have proposed , for the first thing, an update of it.

Customer have downloaded from internet the version 2.5 and made an update.

After that the defpa don't start and in the event log the following message
appear:

DEFPA2: A required parameter is missing from the registry.


Is the first problem the old problem that the PCI bus is not correclty reset?

How I can solve the registry problem ?

Thanks for any idea.

Gabriele

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	>>The driver used DEFPA.SYS is dated 12/12/94. I'm very surprised to find anyone still using the 12/12/94 driver. In the future, make sure you recommend to your customer that they poll our electronic distribution sites every so often. Digital posts driver and other adapter SW updates for free and your customer should take advantage of them. >> -< Defpa and Winnt 3.51 on axp 200 4/166 >- Windows NT 3.51 already ships with a DEFPA.SYS driver. If you read the \WINNT\README.TXT file in the v2.5 DEFPA Driver kit, you'll find that the driver included in the kit is for Windows NT 3.5 only. However, I have recently posted a v2.7 DEFPA Driver kit that contains even newer drivers for both Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NT 3.51/4.0. Please ask your customer to fetch the v2.7 kit (see topic 9 in NOTED::ETHERWORKS conference for pointers). They should then remove the current driver, then install the new driver. If the DEFPA doesn't start, follow the instructions in \WINNT\README.TXT which describes how to decode the last longword in the Event Viewer entry. Please reply to this topic if you're still having trouble. Regards, Larry

>>The driver used DEFPA.SYS is dated 12/12/94.
    
    I'm very surprised to find anyone still using the 12/12/94 driver.  In
    the future, make sure you recommend to your customer that they poll our
    electronic distribution sites every so often.  Digital posts driver
    and other adapter SW updates for free and your customer should take
    advantage of them.

>>                 -< Defpa and Winnt 3.51 on axp 200 4/166 >-
    
    Windows NT 3.51 already ships with a DEFPA.SYS driver.  If you read the
    \WINNT\README.TXT file in the v2.5 DEFPA Driver kit, you'll find that
    the driver included in the kit is for Windows NT 3.5 only.
    
    However, I have recently posted a v2.7 DEFPA Driver kit that contains
    even newer drivers for both Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NT 3.51/4.0.
    
    Please ask your customer to fetch the v2.7 kit (see topic 9 in
    NOTED::ETHERWORKS conference for pointers).  They should then remove
    the current driver, then install the new driver.  If the DEFPA doesn't
    start, follow the instructions in \WINNT\README.TXT which describes how
    to decode the last longword in the Event Viewer entry.
    
    Please reply to this topic if you're still having trouble.
    
    Regards,
       Larry