The Add New Hardware Wizard appears after you install the VHidMini sample driver (831741)

SYMPTOMS

After you install the Virtual Human Input Device (VHidMini) sample driver from the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Driver Development Kit (DDK), you see the Add Hardware Wizard every time that you restart the computer. This behavior is described in the Vhidmini.htm Readme file in the Device Driver Kit (DDK). These symptoms only occur when you install the sample driver as a root-enumerated device in the system.

CAUSE

After the sample driver is installed, the system responds to IRP_MN_QUERY_ID requests for the client Virtual Human Input Device (HID) and responds to IRP_MN_QUERY_ID requests from the parent bus device. This invalidates the node and causes the operating system to display the Add Hardware Wizard.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, force the VHidMini sample file to ignore all IRP_MN_QUERY_ID requests that are meant for the parent functional device object (FDO).

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    case IRP_MN_QUERY_ID:
        
        {
            PIO_STACK_LOCATION  previousSp;
            previousSp = (PIO_STACK_LOCATION) ((UCHAR *) (IrpStack) + sizeof(IO_STACK_LOCATION));

            DebugPrint(("Query-ID Parent %p, %p\n", previousSp->DeviceObject,   DeviceObject));            

            if(previousSp->DeviceObject == DeviceObject) {
                //
                // This is meant for the parent FDO. Therefor, just pass it down.
                //
                ntStatus = Irp->IoStatus.Status;            
                break;
            }
        }

        // Continue with typical IRP_NM_QUERY_ID handling...

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This fix is included in the Windows Server 2003 DDK SP1 release.

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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