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Unplugging Steinberg USB-2-MIDI During Playback Generates 'Invalid Spinlock State' Error Message

Article ID: 267211

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

This article was previously published under Q267211

SYMPTOMS

If you unplug a Steinberg USB-2-MIDI device during MIDI playback, you may receive the following error message:

"BugCheck 0x81: Invalid spinlock state"

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if you are using the driver supplied with the Steinberg USB-2-MIDI device.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, contact Steinberg Media Technologies about availability of an updated driver. Visit the following Steinberg Web site:

http://www.steinberg.net

MORE INFORMATION

For information about how to contact Steinberg Media Technologies, click the appropriate article number in the following list to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

65416 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

60781 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

60782 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

Keywords: kb3rdparty kberrmsg kbhardware kbprb KB267211

Microsoft KB Archive/267211

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