Watchdog in Windows XP

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The watchdog consists of

  • Watchdog driver - a generic ports IO driver
  • Watchdog application - using the watchdog driver

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installation

General Notes: Watchdog package contains watchdog application and watchdog driver. Before using the application driver should be installed.

Automated installation using install.bat:

  1. Run install.bat file.
  2. When the 'Installation complete' message appears restart your computer.

Manual installation:

  1. Copy ntport.dll to Windows\System32 directory.
  2. Copy zntport.sys to Windows\System32\drivers directory.
  3. Import the registry settings from ntport2.reg.
  4. Import the registry settings from watchdog.reg.
  5. Reboot the computer.

Usage

Description: Controls watchdog timer in CompuLab Atom based platforms.

Usage:

Watchdog [command] [time]
 [command]  enable  - Enables the watchdog and sets its time
                      period to value specified in the 'time'
                      argument. Updates following values in
                      'HKLM\\Software\\Watchdog' key:
                        Enabled - 1
                        Time - time period.
            disable - Disables the watchdog. Updates following
                      values in 'HKLM\\Software\\Watchdog' key:
                        Enabled - 0.
            reload  - Reloads the watchdog and sets its time
                      period to value specified in the 'time'
                      argument. Updates following values in
                      'HKLM\\Software\\Watchdog' key:
                        Enabled - 1
                        Time - time period.
            help    - Displays this help.
 [time]     Time in seconds. Supported range [10-255].

Examples:

 watchdog enable 60 - Enable watchdog timer and set it to 60 sec.
 watchdog disable   - Disable watchdog timer.
 watchdog reload 40 - Reload watchdog and set it to 40 sec.

Notes:

  1. To run this application, watchdog driver should be installed.
  2. In addition to using watchdog application, watchdog option in BIOS should be enabled.

Revision History

 1.0 - Initial release.