Eric Lawrence

Bluescreens

6/14/2011 11:49:00 AM

It appears that the blue screens in Windows 7 usbehci.sys on my HP Pavilion Elite HPE450t are caused by a bug in the Intel 5 Series chipset used by the motherboard. Alas, no fix until HP releases a BIOS update.

33. Intel® 5 Series Chipset and Intel® 3400 Series Chipset Not Responding to Cx Request when USB Async Advance Door Bell is Set
http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/specupdate/322170.pdf

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Eric Intel has updated this errata to claim that this problem only happens with "one proprietary GUI application." Unless by that they mean "Windows", they're lying.
Eric Note: Someone on the USB team in Windows provided me with a script you can run in the debugger to unset the bits that enable the buggy feature. Email me for details.

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