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Continuous reboots or blue screen through vcdmpdrv.sys or vbev5mp.sys with Virtual CD v4/v5

With the windows start you get (depending on the system setting) continuous reboots or the following fatal error (blue screen):
"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer...
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xc0000005, 0x8057f2f9, 0xf896dc14, 0xf896d914)"

This is caused by a timing problem that can occur under all NT-based systems. The problem has been reproduced on a computer in which autologon was activated. The error occurs sporadically (about every tenth time). The crash happens the moment that the Virtual CD Player (vcdplay.exe resp. vc5play.exe) is started, normally during logon.

The problem for Virtual CD v4 has been solved with a hotfix (for users of the French version obligatory!). The hotfix requires either the installation of version 4.5.1 or the Virtual CD SDK (e.g. in HeinzeBauOffice, Packard Bell extra software package).
The final version 4.7 from our download area already contains this hotfix!

For Virtual CD v5 it is fixed with the version 5.0.6.


Article #1018 | 09/17/03 | Hartmut Mäcker