SpinRite 6.1 RC3 - NumLock brings up "Attempt to Execute Illegal Opcode"

[rhovdestad]

While running SpinRite 6.1 Release Candidate 3 I attempted to "resume" a level 3 scan on a drive. After selecting the drive, I pressed CTRL+Enter to go to the page allowing me to enter the starting point (in my case 72%). I typically use the numeric keypad for numbers, noticed "NumLock" was off, and pressed "NumLock" to enable the keypad.
Up popped the screen shown in the attachment.

 

[Steve]

Hi! I haven't been able to make this happen here. (Which is certainly not conclusive.)

So the first question is: Does this repeat for you? Does this occur every time to toggle NumLock ON while at that Starting/Finishing Locations screen?

Also, how did you prepare your boot media? I've recently posted the latest release candidate of the Windows boot prep tool. Could you:

1. grab it from:
   https://www.grc.com/dev/SpinRite/WinSpin/SR61-R5.EXE
2. run it to create (or recreate) your boot thumb drive,
3. replace the unlicensed "SPINRITE.EXE" that it adds to the drive with your licensed copy of SpinRite,
4. then boot that and see whether this still occurs?

THANK YOU!!

 

[rhovdestad]

Hi Steve,

I was able to reproduce it every time with RC3.
I'm unable to reproduce in RC5.

Thank you for a great product!

 

[peterblaise]

". . . While running SpinRite 6.1 Release Candidate 3 I attempted to "resume" a level 3 scan on a drive. After selecting the drive, I pressed CTRL+Enter to go to the page allowing me to enter the starting point (in my case 72%). I typically use the numeric keypad for numbers, noticed "NumLock" was off, and pressed "NumLock" to enable the keypad. Up popped the screen shown in the attachment . . ." SRPR-RC3 Attempt to Execute Illegal Opcode! E1D0

". . . Hi! I haven't been able to make this happen here. (Which is certainly not conclusive.) So the first question is: Does this repeat for you? Does this occur every time to toggle NumLock ON while at that Starting/Finishing Locations screen? Also, how did you prepare your boot media? I've recently posted the latest release candidate of the Windows boot prep tool. Could you: 1. grab it from: https://www.grc.com/dev/SpinRite/WinSpin/SR61-R5.EXE 2. run it to create (or recreate) your boot thumb drive, 3. replace the unlicensed "SPINRITE.EXE" that it adds to the drive with your licensed copy of SpinRite, 4. then boot that and see whether this still occurs? THANK YOU!! . . ."

". . . Hi Steve, I was able to reproduce it every time with RC3. I'm unable to reproduce in RC5. Thank you for a great product! . . ."

Hi @rhovdestad,

". . . how did you prepare your boot media? . . ."

Is that resolution also with the same boot drive as previously used, only switching to SRPR-RC5 instead of SRPR-RC3, if so, how was that boot drive made, and what DOS and KERNEL.SYS ( if FreeDOS ) is on it?

Or was that resolution also with a 'fresh' boot drive made with SR61-R5, and then running SRPR-RC5 from there?

Thanks.

 

[Steve]

I was able to reproduce it every time with RC3.
I'm unable to reproduce in RC5.

THANK YOU for the confirmation feedback! MUCH appreciated. I was able to get it to fail once, but since I couldn't make it happen repeatedly I could never be certain that the problem was resolved (though there was reason to assume that it was.)