For me there are still a few phantom network adaptors hanging around. Intel ones this time.

bakemono wrote on 2021-11-28, 14:02:

For me there are still a few phantom network adaptors hanging around. Intel ones this time.

Thanks. Does enumerating the PnP devices in v1.4 also cause stability issues for you like for vstrakh?

vstrakh wrote on 2021-11-28, 13:03:

v1.4 is unstable. Running it with -r -d -v exits prematurely, just completing the PnP report for the ES1868. Rerunning with only […]
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v1.4 is unstable.
Running it with -r -d -v exits prematurely, just completing the PnP report for the ES1868.
Rerunning with only -r -d results in GUI either freezing at some point (more often it's Plug-and-Play Subdevice Details), or stopping with "not enough memory" dialog from the app.
Trying yet again after the reboot results in attempting to show some dialog that gets slowly and infinitely zooming out with black spaces , no actual dialog symbols are seen.
The last records in reports are about PnP subdevices.
HWLOG_14.ZIP

Is the ESS card perhaps initialized (PnP resources) via some dedicated vendor tool? If yes, try to skip CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT and then run HWiNFO16 if the issue will still happen.
If yes, please try to catch the error while running with -d switch and then after reboot post the DBG here so I can check it.

Mumak wrote on 2021-11-28, 14:35:

bakemono wrote on 2021-11-28, 14:02:

For me there are still a few phantom network adaptors hanging around. Intel ones this time.

Thanks. Does enumerating the PnP devices in v1.4 also cause stability issues for you like for vstrakh?

Didn't see any problems with it, no.

Hmm, interesting.. I'm wondering whether your machine is stable otherwise @vstrakh

Well, it runs the games for hours with no issues.
And Norton Diagnostics reports no issues in all tests.

Re-ran the test without esscfg (es1868 pnp setup utility), the behavior is exactly the same.
Apparently I only get errors and freezing when hwinfo runs automatic tests with -r, regardless of -d and -v switches. Just letting it run automatically drives it into some problem.
When I walk all the windows manually it all goes smoothly.

Logs for 1.4 when ess tools are removed from config.sys/autoexec.bat:

Aha, so it's really related to PnP probing.
It's ok if I don't go into the subdevices. Just entering "ISA"->"ISA PnP"->"CSN 1: ess1868" window (I see device id/serial, list of subdevice IDs) does not cause any issues. I can go out and reenter without problems.
But as soon as I dive into a subdevice then exit it, then occasionally (not 100% times) something happens, and I can't go into subdevice again. Pressing enter on the item is treated like an ESC, and the last ESC (exiting the system info window) hangs or reboots PC.
In cases when entering subdevice does not cause problems I see a list of selectable "configuration type: " items, pressing enter on any of those shows "Fatal Error: Not enough memory" dialog.

vstrakh wrote on 2021-11-28, 18:30:

Aha, so it's really related to PnP probing. It's ok if I don't go into the subdevices. Just entering "ISA"->"ISA PnP"->"CSN 1: e […]
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Aha, so it's really related to PnP probing.
It's ok if I don't go into the subdevices. Just entering "ISA"->"ISA PnP"->"CSN 1: ess1868" window (I see device id/serial, list of subdevice IDs) does not cause any issues. I can go out and reenter without problems.
But as soon as I dive into a subdevice then exit it, then occasionally (not 100% times) something happens, and I can't go into subdevice again. Pressing enter on the item is treated like an ESC, and the last ESC (exiting the system info window) hangs or reboots PC.
In cases when entering subdevice does not cause problems I see a list of selectable "configuration type: " items, pressing enter on any of those shows "Fatal Error: Not enough memory" dialog.

Thanks, this is interesting and might help me to determine the issue. Is any subdevice causing the issue or perhaps only some of them?

Mumak wrote on 2021-11-28, 19:08:

Is any subdevice causing the issue or perhaps only some of them?

Hard to tell. It seems it doesn't really matter. But I also can't reproduce the problem right this moment.
What supposed to happen when you enter the "configuration type: ..." (preferable/acceptable/suboptimal) ?

It should show details (resource data) about the particular type of configuration.

Any reasons for it to always fail with "not enough memory" dialog?

I'm checking that right now.. Can you take a screenshot when it fails ?
I think I know what the problem is. Will post a new version in a few minutes...

Going to the second subdevice (ID: ESS1868):

Version 1.5:
- Fixed a memory allocation problem.
- Improved support of CGA and EGA cards.
[version pulled as there's a newer one]

From one of previous freezes of v1.4 got this weird ATAPI port being tested - the last message being shown in status bar.

vstrakh wrote on 2021-11-28, 20:23:

From one of previous freezes of v1.4 got this weird ATAPI port being tested - the last message being shown in status bar.
weird_atapi_port.jpg

Please try v1.5, I'm quite confident it might solve those issues.

v1.5 now allows browsing PnP subdevices configuration 😀

But automatic reports generation still crashes, rebooting the pc.
I'm not sure how much of the report didn't make it to the log file because of the reboot, but the last saved report page shows the list of configuration types for the subdevice ESS1868 - the first one that has submenus to view actual resources allocation. I.e. it couldn't make it into submenu, much like the gui previously couldn't.

Mumak wrote on 2021-11-28, 19:48:

Will post a new version...

Are you considering a Windows 3.x version too? I don't know any good hardware info tool for Win 16bit. I'm sure the guys from win3x.org would be happy to help with testing. I can test it also on multiple configurations.

vstrakh wrote on 2021-11-28, 20:38:

v1.5 now allows browsing PnP subdevices configuration 😀

But automatic reports generation still crashes, rebooting the pc.
I'm not sure how much of the report didn't make it to the log file because of the reboot, but the last saved report page shows the list of configuration types for the subdevice ESS1868 - the first one that has submenus to view actual resources allocation. I.e. it couldn't make it into submenu, much like the gui previously couldn't.

I see and think I found this issue as well. Posting an updated v1.5 again, please try:

OMORES wrote on 2021-11-28, 20:59:

Mumak wrote on 2021-11-28, 19:48:

Will post a new version...

Are you considering a Windows 3.x version too? I don't know any good hardware info tool for Win 16bit. I'm sure the guys from win3x.org would be happy to help with testing. I can test it also on multiple configurations.

Sorry, no such plans. Win 3.x is a completely different API, that would require a totally new project from scratch... One can run HWiNFO for DOS on a Win 3.x system.