WatchDog Timer - Direct Port Writes

[Richard]

Okay, I'm going to toss the Advantech API. It locks up and causes way too
many problems. I'm sure it's something I'm doing but I don't have the time.

All I'm doing is trying to write to to the WatchDog via a direct write to a
Port.
Since XP doesn't allow this, I was thinking of using the component on
XPeFiles
called "DLPortIO" and before I go to build a new image (Hopefully I can
just copy files to an existing image" I was wondering if anyone used it
successfully on XPe.

TIA,
Richard

 

[KM]

Richard,

http://groups-beta.google.com/group...q=DLPortIO&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group

 

[Richard]

IO.DLL seemed to do the trick although it gives an annoying error on the
very first run.

"IO.SYS Service Found but unable to connect to it".

The second time around it works. I did a commit and reboot and it seems to
be working. But it has me worried why it would do that on the first shot.
Something I surely don't want to chance.

Richard

 

[KM]

Richard,

If the error is so annying that you are willing to spend some time to figure it out, I'd recommand you to take a look in to
SetupApi.log. There may be some info about why it is failing the first time.

KM