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RIO Windows 2000 Driver occasionally locks up when RTAs are powered on, off, or deleted.

Issue ID: SCRIO0006
Date: August 30, 2002


The information in this article applies to:
  • RIO driver for Windows 2000 V1.0.2.0025

SYMPTOMS
  1. PC will occasionally lock up with blue screen when powering on or off RTA's.
  2. PC will occasionally lock up with blue screen when deleting RTA's from Device manager
  3. WIN32 API function call GetCommModemStatus was taking too long to complete.
  4. COM ports on the RIO would loose communication after a RTA was powered down and back on again.

RESOLUTION

Engineering has recognised the problem and has provided the following upgrade to resolve this particular issue. To update the RIO driver for Windows 2000 please replace the current rio.sys file located under windows(base)/system32/drivers/ with the attached rio.sys file.

RIO.sys.driver