840890 hotfix

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a problem that is described in the KB840890. I never tried to request
a hotfix from the Microsoft support, but, according to the intimidting fees
for the support communication, I assume that this not free anymore.

Can anyone advise/share the experience how to obtain the hotfix? Maybe
someone has it downloaded already?

Thank you,

Yuri

 

[Guest]

This was resolved. Please, disregard.

Yuri.

 

[dalai lamah]

Un bel giorno Yuri digitò:

I have a problem that is described in the KB840890. I never tried to request
a hotfix from the Microsoft support, but, according to the intimidting fees
for the support communication, I assume that this not free anymore.

Can anyone advise/share the experience how to obtain the hotfix? Maybe
someone has it downloaded already?

How have you solved this? I have the very same problem.

 

[Martin]

I don't know if this is going to help you, but I had a similar message which
took me to KB834938 - also a "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" message and I
was similarly appalled by the fee demanded for a hotfix.

However, I noted the file concerned and especially the version number
(minimum) listed in the KB article. I then searched my computer for the
file concerned and found 2 copies. One with a version number below that
stated by Microsoft and the other with a version number higher. So I
copied the higher version number to the file with the lower version number
and overwrote it. That was a few days ago and, not intending to tempt
Fate, so far so good.

So you might want to check the version numbers of the 5 files listed in your
KB article and see how they relate to the versions listed and if any are
lower version numbers try and get a higher version from somewhere - either
search your own computer or try a Google search for the files. Do make a
copy of the files and their locations before over-writing just in case this
doesn't work and you have to go back to where you started.

I'm not speaking with any authority on this except that it seems to have
worked for me.

Good luck

Martin

 

[dalai lamah]

Un bel giorno Martin digitò:

However, I noted the file concerned and especially the version number
(minimum) listed in the KB article. I then searched my computer for the
file concerned and found 2 copies. One with a version number below that
stated by Microsoft and the other with a version number higher. So I
copied the higher version number to the file with the lower version number
and overwrote it. That was a few days ago and, not intending to tempt
Fate, so far so good.

This is worth a try; in my case the files to be downgraded should be
afd.sys and tcpip.sys, the others have the same version. However I believed
that Windows 2000 notices when you try to change the system files by simply
overwriting them (instead of doing a proper system update) and restores
them with the copies in dllcache or similar folders. Isn't that so?

Thank you!