Cannot install Intel GMA or Ati Xpress videocards...

[ZileXa]

Hey guys, just wanted to know if there are more people with these very annoying issues:

for example a Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi laptop with Ati Radeon Xpress 1100 videocard (uses shared memory).

Everything installs fine but the Ati driver from Acer cannot be installed. It gives errors when I start setup, and when I choose normal or express install it gives a final message setup cannot continu.

For the Medion 97600 the problem is worse, the installation of the Intel GMA 900 does run, but after restart it is like Windows has no memory at all... I can hardly login to my account, it gives messages it can't find files like explorer.exe, it can't load them into the memory...

Dutch Windows XP SP2 + Dutch RyanVM Updatepack.

LAST_SESSION.INI

Edited October 25, 2006 by ZileXa

[neo]

I m using ATI XPress 200 onboard graphics and also nlited CD of XP

and that go successfull

[nuhi]

ZileXa, you could retry without that update pack to be sure that it's the case. But also be sure to properly install all your chipset drivers before VGA drivers, especially the AGP filters.

[ZileXa]

yes I know I have to do a lot more testing on this case to figure out what's going on. This strange thing is happening for a while now and it annoys me I do not have the time to focus on this issue... I actually posted too soon on this forum..

Today I almost finished my bachelorresearch so from now on I have more time for this issue... I suspect it has something to do with my giant regtweaks.reg file... perhaps there are a few nasty tweaks in there wich mess up the Registry or something... the file is so old and has grown soo much..

I'll report when I have some conclusions

[pmshah]

I had similar problem incorporating the OEM drivers. This was of course limited to the audio, video & onboard nic. I used a different approoach.

1. I first made a full fledged install.

2. Used "DriverMax" utility to backup the drivers.

3. Created a selfextacting cab file of the backup folder. Size reduction 26 mb -> 15 mb.

4. Put this in $oem$\$1\Drivers\ folder

5. Added appropriate line to the "pnpoemdriverpath" to point to this location.

6. Used DetachedProgram option to run a file called expand.cmd.

7. This expand.cmd ran the selfextracting file & after a delay deleted it.

The installation went through without a hitch & all the proper drivers were automatically installed.