STOP: Bugcheck BSOD in kX.dll

XDread · Mar 15, 2003, 05:00 AM

Hi!

I was listening to some music in the background from my home-made streaming audio server while reverse-engineering a project file to Cubase SX. That involved opening an empty project to check things and closing again a few times.

Then on one close the monitor goes "ka-click!" and the screen goes dark blue and I was feeling a little helpless... (BSODs are never cozy!)

What do I see? That kX.dll was the module where this happened! This is not something I experience very often, but perhaps it is something worth a closer look? I have made a backup of my 450MB memory.dmp file and dumpchk.exe says what is pasted below.
(According to pstat.exe, the module name whose address is just lower than the ExceptionAddress is ntoskrnl.exe, not kX.dll as the BSOD itself said.)

I will not follow this error other than check for answers here in this forum. If I get no answer, I guess this is of little importance, and this happens just rarely. But there is a bug somewhere!

The exception code translates to: "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"

Filename . . . . . . .memory.dmp
Signature. . . . . . .PAGE
ValidDump. . . . . . .DUMP
MajorVersion . . . . .free system
MinorVersion . . . . .2195
DirectoryTableBase . .0x09af9000
PfnDataBase. . . . . .0xff90f000
PsLoadedModuleList . .0x8046d9f0
PsActiveProcessHead. .0x8046dcb0
MachineImageType . . .i386
NumberProcessors . . .1
BugCheckCode . . . . .0x000000d1
BugCheckParameter1 . .0xff068098
BugCheckParameter2 . .0x00000008
BugCheckParameter3 . .0x00000000
BugCheckParameter4 . .0xf768fedb

ExceptionCode. . . . .0x80000003
ExceptionFlags . . . .0x00000001
ExceptionAddress . . .0x8046856f

NumberOfRuns . . . . .0x4
NumberOfPages. . . . .0x1df8c
Run #1
BasePage . . . . . .0x1
PageCount. . . . . .0x1f
Run #2
BasePage . . . . . .0x21
PageCount. . . . . .0x7e
Run #3
BasePage . . . . . .0x100
PageCount. . . . . .0xeff
Run #4
BasePage . . . . . .0x1000
PageCount. . . . . .0x1cff0

**Eugene Gavrilov** · Mar 20, 2003, 09:38 PM

if you keep experiencing this kind of bug, pls, post a more detailed report
[actually, the data displayed on the BSOD]

/Eugene

XDread · Mar 22, 2003, 06:28 PM

Actually that is the data displayed on the BSOD, but here is what I managed to write down before my computer automatically rebooted. (I have turned off auto-reboot after BSOD now.)

*** STOP: 0x000000d1(0x0xff068098, 0x00000008, 0x00000000, 0xf768fedb)

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

*** Address f768fedb base at f768f000, DateStamp (And this is what I managed to write down except "kx.dll" on the far right side.)

Anyway, I think this was a one time occurance, I have never experienced this before or after, so this is really no problem for me. I don't usually mess around with both WinAmp and Cubase SX at the same time!

**Eugene Gavrilov** · Mar 24, 2003, 10:15 AM

the error "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" cannot happen in a 'DLL' (but in .sys drivers only)
so, if Windows reports it to happen in kx.dll, it is a mistake

/Eugene

XDread · Mar 24, 2003, 08:17 PM

Strange!

Well it is nothing I am making up! And it has only happened once, so it really is no problem for me. I just reported that it had happened.

But thanks anyway! You are doing a great job!