Hi you all,

Well I guess this is not a new issue, yet I could not find any answer for the problem so I started this thread.

I've installed DriverStudio 2.6 and SoftICE do not break on any program's OEP and also I have problems with breakpoints (like bpx MessageBoxA).

I've heared that some ppl did not face these problems; so the question is: "What's wrong with the new SoftICE? In what situations it works and in what situations it does not?"

I've been working with SoftICE from the old DOS days till now so I'm quite familiar with the settings so I don't think I've missed anything "obvious"...

Anyone can help?

Greetings,
I wish I had some solution for you, but unfortunately I have some problems on my own. Sice breaks on bpx MessageBoxA on my machine. But when I hit F11/F12, it gets redirected into code oblivion someplace...
A question: Does Softice, when you use the loader, break on program start? I have tried all the settings possible, but it never breaks, no matter what kind of program I try to load.
It has been awful quiet about any problems when running Softice on XP.
What about the rest of you guys? Does it work perfectly on your computers?

regards,
hobgoblin

PS. I know others on other boards have experienced problems similar to ours, but they haven't been able to sort it out.

Hi,

The same problem here. It does not break on program load, no matter what the program be.
About F11/12, I've read about this problem in this forum, and as far as I remember, there was a suggestion to manually set a break point on ss:esp and then pressing F5 instead. Yet I think all these problems have things in common and there should be a solution that fix them all. I'm sure there is a solution as NuMega released this version exclusivly to support XP, and now it has so many problems...

Regards
WARM3CH

CONFIRMATION ;((

and more... the loader doesn't load proggy w/out debug info...
silly.

btw, to bpxkpoints: if i set breakpoint manually in debugged app it works, however _some_ API calls are _sometimes_ working, it's exactly same as with ds2.5.
looks like another 50mb of wasted download.. ;(

..and next issue: after finishing& restarting debugged app all breakpoints set within it's code are deleted, of course I can kick'em back there from history, but it's not too comfortable (usually by this step i'm loosing clue and have to start from beginning )

I have similar problems with 2.6, but no problem with breakpoints being wiped after a prg is closed. However, breakpoints do seem to be ignored randomly sometimes and a bd/be seems to fix the problem for a while.

The other problem I have (and more severe) is that a CTRL+D will sometimes reboot the entire system with no warning.

i tested ds2.6 on two different computers running winxp and i eXPerienced some problems :'( Here's my 2 cent :

- Loader doesn't load target (just says no debug symbol)
fix : go to module/settings, tab debugging.Reload cool it works now Seems something isn't good initialized before enterring this window ?

- Loader doesn't stop at winmain. I tried PeEditor (put CC to entrypoint) but it doesn't break neither. I verified 'faults' status is 'ON'. When i generate an interruption it breaks ('GENINT' command). When i generate an interruption without faults == on it crashes doh

note : i tested if it was something to do with softice startup (boot, manual, etc......) but it doesn't seems to.

anyhelp appreciated !!

I had weird problems also, bp's being cleared and the like (same as you guys) and also random chance of sice resetting apon entering.
Break and Enter no longer works either :\

Just have to improvise