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| | Suppressing a Vista event logging request Hi, I am running Windows Vista Ultimate (along with native XP in other partitions) on my Dell Precision 530 Workstation. The original video card was not Vista compliant. I was able to find an Aero capable Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS AGP video card and it runs Aero features quite well. However, the card has a firmware glitch that erroneously decides that voltage is insufficient (voltage is actually fine). To inform the driver software of this condition the graphics car repeatedly causes a series of hardware interrupts indicating that (false) voltage failure events have occurred. For each such notification the Nvidia driver logs a System error record to the system log filling the event viewer with thousands of error records within just a few seconds. The CPU and IO processing involved in all this logging cripples performance and makes the system barely usable. If I could somehow eliminate this erroneous logging I would have a fully working responsive Vista system. I cannot buy a new card (Aero capable AGP cards are few and far between) so I checked about getting repaired firmware. Unfortunately, this cards manufacturer offers no mechanism to upgrade the firmware. An alternative would be to focus on the software side and stop the Nvidia driver from logging these events even though it is prompted by the card to post an error. However, my attempts to get Nvidia to let me know how to do this have failed. So I'm left with one final possibility - suppressing the logging process itself so that even though the driver issues a log request the Vista logging subsystem will (selectively?) reject it. This sort of request filtering could dramatically reduce the resource consumption overhead associated with actually recording and externalizing the log records and would most likely improve system performance. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Does Vista let you selectively deflect log requests? I'd even settle for a way to globally suppress all log requests since this problem is a real showstopper. -- Thanks, zarbiker |
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