
Updating your drivers are important because, often time, many issues with a hardware device can be traced back to an issue with the device driver. The screen may freeze suddenly, and you may also not be able to find a way out. You are using hardware for interacting with the computer, like a keyboard for input and a display for output. For any questions or tips, please let us understand in the remarks section below. To begin the process of resetting your pc, hold the SHIFT key and press the RESTART option. This will change the type of the parameter to match its true type. Since we know that the first parameter of DriverEntry is a pointer to a driver object, we can click the parameter in the decompiler and press CTRL+L to bring up the Data Type Chooser.
This becomes a lot easier with our newly-applied symbols. Your driver handles this IRP by configuring and connecting various kernel resources, following which your hardware is ready to use. You might have scanned all possible slots of a PCI bus, for example, or assumed that each instance of your device corresponded to a subkey in the registry. Would have somehow determined which instances of your hardware were actually present.