Device path excersizer problems.

[Mark Vanstone]

Hi all,

Another problem. When installing HCT 11.2 and running, there is no
'DEVICE PATH EXCERSIZER' field shown. After running the USB
interoperability test, this field appears and takes over 10hours to
test all drivers, rather than just my device!

Also Initially DRIVER VERIFIER runs and completes very fast with one
reboot. After interoperability test, DRIVER VERIFIER runs S1 and S3
stress tests, and a whole load others.

Is there anyway to remove HCT and re-install it so that it these test
fields behave as they did initially. The only option I have now is to
restore from a system image.

Mark

 

[Andy Wen [MSFT]]

Please do make sure that you do not have any unsigned drivers installed in
your system, except your device driver. Driver Verifier and Device Path
Exerciser will test all the unsigned driver in the system. Thus, if you have
other unsigned driver in the test system, those two tests would run longer
and may caused failure that is not related to your driver.

 

[Walter Oney]

Please do make sure that you do not have any unsigned drivers installed in
your system, except your device driver. Driver Verifier and Device Path
Exerciser will test all the unsigned driver in the system. Thus, if you have
other unsigned driver in the test system, those two tests would run longer
and may caused failure that is not related to your driver.

What *possible* relevance do other unsigned drivers have to whether the
driver being logo'ed should pass? A major reason why companies bypass
driver certification is that it's so hard to do the testing on their
development machines, which inevitably have after-market stuff installed
and, consequently, some number of unsigned drivers.

I think we appreciate being told how the test works, but Microsoft needs
to understand how difficult it is for us out here in the real world to
run the test when it works the way it does. In this situation, it would
be simplicity itself to change the test to only verify the driver or
drivers that are going to be part of the submission.

 

[Mark Vanstone]

Thanks all. Andy is correct, one of my devices is using an unsigned driver.

Mark