JSI Tip 1756. STOP: 0X00002B PANIC_STACK_SWITCH on Alpha during SQL 7.0 SP1 setup?

Jerold Schulman

October 28, 1999

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If you use a Powerstorm 4d20 video, with the Tga2 driver, during the SQL 7.0 SP1 setup on your Alpha, you will receive:

STOP: 0X00002B (0xDE05CFA4,0x00000003,0Xfffffff0,0xf657c000)PANIC_STACK_SWITCHMicrosoft Windows NT [0xf0000565]Machine State at Call to Bug Check PC : 800c0364 PSR : 0000001ECallee-Sp Return -Ra Dll Base - Name806d9e00 800c0364 : 80080000 - ntoskrnl.exeFFFFFFF0 DE05CFA8 80080000 - ntoskrnl.exeCallee-SP Return-RA Call Site806d90f0 800b854c : ntkrnlmp!DbgBreakPointWithStatus+0x4806d90f0 800bfde0 : ntkrnlmp!KeBugCheckEx+0x254806d9620 800c2694 : ntkrnlmp!KiMemoryManagementException+0xf4806d9820 800c255c : ntkrnlmp!KiLookupFunctionEntry+0x74806d9840 800b84a0 : ntkrnlmp!KeDumpMachineState+0x17c806d98d0 800c0360 : ntkrnlmp!KeBugCheckEx+0x1a8806d9e00 de05cfa4 : ntkrnlmp!KiPanicException+0x8fffffff0 80174230 : win32k!W32pThreadCallout+0x400000010 00000000 : ntkrnlmp!PsConvertToGuiThread+0x250 

The workaround is to use the standard VGA video drivers. The Powerstorm 4d20 video driver files are:

    Date        Time    File name     -----------------------------   01/22/1998  10:14a  Tga2.dll   01/22/1998  10:18a  Tga2.sys

The impacted computers are:

AlphaServer 1200 AlphaServer 4000/4100 AlphaServer 8200/8400 Digital Ultimate Workstation


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