Dislocated Time

Hi you PC wizards, I'm somewhere between being a novice and being stumped, need a little help before I can roll along on my own. I used to write a lot of batch scripts on my own for installing win98 when I used to work at a computer shop, but I went traveling around the world for quite a number of years in-between and have gotten a bit rusty in the subject. Gosh's setup mod.exe - not loading drivers [http://www.msfn.org/board/Integrating-drivers-HFSLIP-t63302.html] didn't help. My notebook has a dual processor and the drivers I needed were marked with "noload". I found out those drivers marked with the suffix "_mp" mean multiprocessor. I found only a few descriptions about a few of the drivers in the Txtsetup.sif, but not all. Does anyone know where a list is that describes which drivers are used for which devices? Without that info, that spiffy little routine Gosh explained is like playing Russian roulette with my drivers. Can anyone at show me a few drivers that are superfluous for a dual processor system? Oleg's instructions on how to integrate the driver binaries for the installation haven't helped me out obviously because I didn't use Fred Vorcks setup files but I'll attempt that soon, cause I want to get rid of that nasty little Internet Explorer. I have also run into a driver without any *.inf file in it and am wondering how to integrate that one (even with FV's files). I'd appreciate someone explaining how to do that. I tried toying around with autoIt to see if that could help me, but haven't been able to really comprehend its use and don't know where to find some simplistic well written instructions for that. I've gotten to the point where I've managed to find a lot of the silent switches for most of my programs and have tested them on my notebook. Thanks to BJ-Kaiser I just added Opera to my successes. There are four other big hurdles that I have yet to overcome: BSPlayer - think I saw some info on it somewhere - that shouldn't be to much of a problem. People have already dealt with it. A freeware program called Chemsketch - Universal Extractor, WinRAR and USSF.exe can't deal with it. Silently installing Regdefender or Process Guard is quite like throwing a monkey wrench into my installation machinery, that's why I've put those at the end of my list. Anyway, if there's someone out there with some hints that would help further on my way through this new universe of information, I'd appreciate anyone that could point to a Stargate and give me a few hints on how to decode the opening mechanism. Peace! and may a strong wind blow the Chinese out of Tibet Dislocated Time

Excellent! Thank you. Will do.

I ended up reinstalling my whole system because I found no solution. Since then everything has been working fine.

Hi. Fred Vorck changed his site again unfortunately. As far as I can remember there was some reference to being able to slipstream drivers directly into the i386. In the back of my mind I think it was about Universal SATA? If that's possible, it should be possible with other drivers as well. I read his page and wanted to come back to it and then it was gone because he revamped it. Does anyone have any reference to that process. I want to make an unattended install CD for a notebook and would like to slipstream the graphics driver directly into the windows setup rather than using OEM techniques. Does anyone know how to do this or know where there is any info regarding this subject? I'm a W2K and MSDOS tinkerer and am not in the least bit interested in XP or Vista, so please do me the favor of leaving out any comments regarding those other mentioned operating systems. Thanks.

Hi. This is a pretty screwed sitch. Did a search. Haven't found a solution yet. PC unexpectedly shut down while regedit was still open. It seems nothing has been damaged except windows installer. I had the registry open and was at some windows installer entry because I wanted to know if it was correctly registered. That's when a power fuse blew. It appears the harddisk is not damaged and hardware check gave no negative results. running cmd: I type in msiexec /? I get the message: Incorrect command line parameters, Windows Installer V 2.00.2600.1267 Copyright blah blah... so I know that the windows installer is installed. This is what happens when I try to reinstall instmsiw.exe: Error the specified service already exists. Services.msc however does not list a windows installer service. When I try to slipstream-update OneNote 2003 I get the message: The windows installer could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running in safe mode, or if the windows installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. The support personnel from micky soft don't seem to have a solution other than for me to do a new install and I haven't slipstreamed everything that I wanted for a clean install, so that would be a p*** in the a** to do. This is beyond me. Is there anyone here that has any solution? Thx for any insights. Is there anywhere where I can find a list of the registry entries which msiexec.exe makes when being installed, so that I can knock them all out and really be able to do a clean reinstall of the windows installer?