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CCS or emulator crashes Windows 7

Anonymous
Anonymous


Hi,

 

I would like to ask a question on CCS.

 

 

I experienced Windows 7 (32-bit, home basic) system blue screen with during CCS session. The screenshot is shown above.

Symptom:

1.    At first, CCS hangs and stops to response. The CCS IDE windows is “dimmed” with a grayish layer overlaid on it, as commonly seen in other problems when stopping to respond.

2.    Then, a short time after, or when I forced cc_app.exe’s termination from Windows task manager, blue screen appears and I have to do a machine reboot.

Conditions:

 

1.    I am certain that this relates to improper memory placement which causing difficulty in halting the DSP (DM6437) because I store all data and program in L1P/L1D; if data and code are stored in L2 or DDR2, the CCS hang and this blue screen never happens.

2.    Another potential culprit which might contribute, or have aggravated the situation is the WLAN driver associated with a TPLINK 300Mbps 802.11n adapter. Windows event viewer frequently logs error relating to it, including

Level

Event ID

Description

Error

10000

WLAN Extensibility Module has failed to start.

 

Module Path: C:\Windows\system32\athExt.dll

Warning

4001

WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully stopped.

3.    The emulator is SEED XDS560, not Spectrum’s.

 

Diagnostics:

As shown above, MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS problem is detected.

 

·         What does this suggest? Which IRPs are “multiple”? Do they all come from CCS, or some are from WLAN adapter or other PC peripherals?

 

Question:

I place data/code in L1 to improve the speed of certain interrupt service routines. But even if it is done improperly, such as necessary memory configuration has not been made, how could the DSP’s problem even transmit to CCS, and even the Windows system?

 

And is there a solution to the problem?

 

 

 

 

 

Zheng

  • Sorry Zheng, I'm not sure what insight we can provide. CCSv3.3 is not officially supported on WIndows 7 but a BSOD should not be caused by CCSv3.3 regardless.

    Hopefully someone else has some insight.

    ki

  • Anonymous
    0 Anonymous in reply to Ki

    Ki-Soo,

    Ki-Soo Lee said:

    but a BSOD should not be caused by CCSv3.3 regardless.

    Do you think it might relate to SEED's XDS560 driver?

     

    I still have another question. I found that if I block CCS's Internet access in firewall, it would then take a very long time (from 15 seconds to over 2 minutes) before the IDE gets launched. If I allow the access, then the speed would become normal.

    Why would this happen? In the launching phase, does CCS try to communicate with some Internet server?

    Although the access is granted, my firewall (Comodo Internet Security) logs zero bytes traffic over several hours. This is curious: why does it require Internet access at the beginning, and turns out communicate communicated nothing after being allowed?

     

    CCS 3.3 is popular in China albeit its age and I obtained the copy from an engineer rather than purchasing from TI (it is almost everywhere available for download), and I actually have no idea of TI's copyright policy on it or the source of my copy. Do you think my copy of CCS 3.3 is safe, or is it possible that some malicious/trojan code were injected which is why it requested Internet access?

     

     

     

    Zheng

     

     

     

     

     

  • Zheng,

    Zheng Zhao said:
    CCS 3.3 is popular in China albeit its age and I obtained the copy from an engineer rather than purchasing from TI (it is almost everywhere available for download), and I actually have no idea of TI's copyright policy on it or the source of my copy. Do you think my copy of CCS 3.3 is safe, or is it possible that some malicious/trojan code were injected which is why it requested Internet access?

    It is impossible for me to comment on the safety of a potential bootleg copy of CCSv3.3. You are not supposed to have copies of CCS 3.3 unless you own a license associated with it.

    By default, CCS will try to check for updates periodically. But it will let you know when it tries to.

  • Anonymous
    0 Anonymous in reply to Ki

    Ki-Soo,

    I still have two questions:

    1. Is the slow start related to Internet connection attempt?
    2. Is there an option in CCS 3.3 to permanently disable the update check?

     

     

    Zheng

  • Zheng Zhao said:
    Is the slow start related to Internet connection attempt?

    I doubt it

    Zheng Zhao said:
    Is there an option in CCS 3.3 to permanently disable the update check?

    'Help->Update Advisor->Setting' and disable the checkbox for the timed check.

    ki

  • Anonymous
    0 Anonymous in reply to Ki

    Ki-Soo,

    I got it, thanks.

     

    Zheng