HCT 11.2 Device Path Excerciser tests wrong driver! help!

[Pavel A.]

Hi,
Does anybody have this problem ??
Running HCT 11.2 for my ndis/wdm driver. It is a plain vanilla USB 2.0 card, nothing special.
The Device Path Excerciser test, for unknown reasion, picks besides of my driver,
another, named OMCI.SYS.
And omci.sys causes crash, so the test fails for _my_ driver...

Omci.sys is part of "Dell open manager client instrumentation". The rest of this software is NOT installed on my Dell
Precision 360. But it came with XP preinstalled, so at least it makes some sense.

On another my machine, IBM, the Device Path Excerciser selected a DMI driver of IBM (don't have it's name handy)
and the latter also caused crash and test failed...

What this means? It occured twice on different machines from different vendors so it isn't coinsidence.
In the parameters for the Device Path Excerciser test, there is just my USB device, as expected.
But as soon as the test starts, it picks also omci.sys and does not allow me to delete or disable it.

Please help... I'm clueless.

- PA

 

[Robert Harper [MSFT]]

Hi Pavel,

This is by design. Device Path Exerciser and Driver Verifier will run
against any unsigned drivers in your system.
My suggestion would be to remove all partions and clean install the OS.

Thanks,
Robert Harper
WHQLNET @ Microsoft.Com

Hi,
Does anybody have this problem ??
Running HCT 11.2 for my ndis/wdm driver. It is a plain vanilla USB 2.0 card, nothing special.
The Device Path Excerciser test, for unknown reasion, picks besides of my driver,
another, named OMCI.SYS.
And omci.sys causes crash, so the test fails for _my_ driver...

Omci.sys is part of "Dell open manager client instrumentation". The rest

of this software is NOT installed on my Dell

Precision 360. But it came with XP preinstalled, so at least it makes some sense.

On another my machine, IBM, the Device Path Excerciser selected a DMI

driver of IBM (don't have it's name handy)

and the latter also caused crash and test failed...

What this means? It occured twice on different machines from different

vendors so it isn't coinsidence.

 

[Pavel A.]

Thanks a lot, Robert.

-- Pavel

Hi Pavel,

This is by design. Device Path Exerciser and Driver Verifier will run
against any unsigned drivers in your system.
My suggestion would be to remove all partions and clean install the OS.

Thanks,
Robert Harper
WHQLNET @ Microsoft.Com



of this software is NOT installed on my Dell
driver of IBM (don't have it's name handy)
vendors so it isn't coinsidence.