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Have you tried F6? You should find that although it's available, it does not work correctly. You will get an error further along.

Well, this may or may not work for you. I don't ever use the oempreinstall=yes so that the "F6 to load drivers" remains available. I just copy all the files that I need to the proper places on the hard drive by inserting a custom compiled copy program as the first line of svcpack.inf. It's tedious to program out all the copies, however it's worth it to me even though I integrate some drivers. I also use my custom program to add the reg tweaks and do any oddball installs at this point. Note: This is more or less a quote from the post that I pointed to.

That's odd, I mentioned this on this site several times and so have many others. I'll grant you that we get tired of answering it, so some threads go uncorrected. F6 for Drivers

I program it and then compile into an exe. Check your PMs.

OK, here is the answer to this. (Let the next Googler find this clue) This computer has an APC Backup 350 connected by USB for power monitoring. The smart chip in the APC has gone bad and is sending garbage along with valid messages. Disconnect it and all is well. Isn't that event viewer message helpful? Edit: The error with the UPS was real but not the true cause. The problem returned the next day. I ran extensive diagnostics on this machine and it passes. Also the machine is rock solid - never crashes. So for now, I'm going to live with it. By the way, this is an Athlon XP processor and one person reported that AMD said it's not a cause for worry.

Since the last batch of Microsoft patches, (may not be the cause) I am seeing this message in Event Viewer on boot up. It appears not as an error or warning, but as an event about 5 times in a row. It's descibed as "Application Popup". Examining the event shows this description: "Machine Check: Regs" Thats all it gives. Event ID 26 Googling it gives little help, but seems to point towards a hardware error. I doubt that is the case. Any clues out there?

Well, this may or may not work for you. I don't ever use the oempreinstall=yes so that the "F6 to load drivers" remains available. I just copy all the files that I need to the proper places on the hard drive by inserting a custom copy program as the first line of svcpack.inf. It's tedious to program out all the copies, but my $OEM$ path can be anything that I want, since I do the copying. I know you do this type of detail work yourself so maybe it would work for you too.

Isn't the other file to be edited Textsetup.sif?

XP Pro: I made the directories and added the hotfixes as indicated plus several others and Microsoft Java. (Provided the boot file myself to get around that error) All proceded without further errors and the Cd checks out perfectly. Thanks GreenMachine!

Uh oh, my bad ---- got caught by a troll. (Who later edited and added to his post to make it a less obvious troll, but what you see quoted here is the original complete and unabridged trollwork. My apologies to the mods for getting caught up in postings by the troll!!) Oh and the missing image above was of an ugly character sticking his tongue out and making a face.

Another blanket statement, and wrong again. The flashing software written by some manufacturers checks for compatability not the "PC board" itself. It's still quite possible to go to a modder, download a hacked bios which has it's own flashing software and flash the wrong bios on a new pc. Happens all the time. Check your facts.

Repeating wrong information does not make it right. Sometimes you can go back. Read my post above.

A few motherboards have a last chance feature that enables then to boot from a special floppy to flash the bios even when the bios is corrupted. Check with your manufacturer, maybe you are lucky. "Some newer PCs come with a boot block feature that enables them to recover from a corrupted BIOS situation. If the BIOS code is whacked, a tiny built-in program will look on the floppy drive for the appropriate files to reload the BIOS. You should contact the manufacturer for instructions."

Yes, you've outdone everyone here. Now, we're all mad at you. Perhaps you could sell this to Microsoft? It would save them a lot of time and bandwidth. All we can do is cry that we never thought of this.

Check task manager, you'll find the task there stalled!

It turns out that there is something unusual about this driver, because BartPe cannot load it even with his nifty new simple network card driver method and neither can ERD Commander 2005 load it with it's built in "Add Network Driver" function. The mystery continues. By the way, using the Device Manager Clone for BartPE fails to load it also. It will take a major genius to figure this one out.

Exactly! I found out that running firefox from an ERD commander 2005 disk needs a writable C: partition. Because its normal way of working is to copy the default profile to %userprofile%. Yeah and it leaves the crap on your hard drive even after you exit the program. Also, this could be a danger if you were planning to recover lost files and did not want to write anything to the hard drive!

Anybody have any tips on integrating this driver into Winpe? The obvious method of adding the inf to the inf directory and the sys file to drivers does not work. I tried adding the mof file to system32\wbem\mof also. There must be a trick! Here is the inf: ; NETM4CX.INF ; ; D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter ; ; (C)Copyright 2003, D-Link Corporation. ; ; All rights reserved ; ; INF File for NDIS5.X Miniport Driver for Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP (x86) [Version] Signature = "$Chicago$" Compatible = 1 Class = Net ClassGUID = {4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Provider = %DLINK% CatalogFile = m4cx.cat DriverVer=08/27/2003, 6.23.0.0 [Manufacturer] %DLINK% = DLINK,NT.5.1 [DLINK.NT.5.1] %DGE530T.DeviceDesc% = dge530tXP, PCI\VEN_1186&DEV_4C00&SUBSYS_4C001186 [DLINK] %DGE530T.DeviceDesc% = dge530t, PCI\VEN_1186&DEV_4C00&SUBSYS_4C001186 ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Gigabit Ethernet Adapters [dge530t] AddReg = m4cxw9x.reg, m4cxw9x.params, m4cx.V2.Copper.params Characteristics = 0x84 BusType = 5 CopyFiles = m4cxw9x.copy [dge530t.Services] AddService = "m4cxw9x", 2, m4cxw9x.Service, w9x.EventLog [dge530t.NTx86] AddReg = m4cxnt5x.reg, m4cxnt5x.params, m4cx.V2.Copper.params Characteristics = 0x84 BusType = 5 CopyFiles = m4cxw2k.copy.NTx86 CopyFiles = wmi.CopyFiles [dge530t.NTx86.Services] AddService = "m4cxw2k", 2, m4cxw2k.Service, w2k.EventLog [dge530tXP.NTx86] AddReg = m4cxnt5x.reg, m4cxnt5x.params, m4cx.V2.Copper.params Characteristics = 0x84 BusType = 5 CopyFiles = m4cxwxp.copyXP.NTx86 CopyFiles = wmi.CopyFiles [dge530tXP.NTx86.Services] AddService = "m4cxwxp", 2, m4cxwxp.Service, wxp.EventLog ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; General Driver Parameters ; [m4cxw9x.params] HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, Flag, 1,20,0,0,0 HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize, Flag, 1,20,0,0,0 HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Flag, 1,20,0,0,0 HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Flag, 1,20,0,0,0 HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, ParamDesc,, %NetAddress% HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, Type,, "edit" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, LimitText,, "18" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, UpperCase,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, Default,, "" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, Optional,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize, ParamDesc,, %MaxFrSize% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize, Type,, "enum" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize\enum,1514,, %Off% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize\enum,9014,, %On% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize, Default,, "1514" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, ParamDesc,, %NumRcv% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Type,, "int" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Base,, "10" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Min,, "3" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Max,, "500" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Step,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Default,, "50" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, ParamDesc,, %NumTx% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Type,, "int" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Base,, "10" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Min,, "4" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Max,, "200" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Step,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Default,, "50" HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A, ParamDesc,, %FlowCtrlA% HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A, Type,, "enum" HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A\enum,3,, %On% HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A\enum,0,, %Off% HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A, Default,, "3" HKR,, MaxMulticast,, "128" HKR,, WaitForRxResources,, "1" HKR,, SGMapRegistersNeeded,, "64" HKR,, MessageLog,, "4" HKR,, Moderate,, "1" HKR,, FixedIntMod,, "5000" [m4cxnt5x.params] HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, ParamDesc,, %NetAddress% HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, Type,, "edit" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, LimitText,, "18" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, UpperCase,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, Default,, "" HKR, Ndi\Params\NetworkAddress, Optional,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize, ParamDesc,, %MaxFrSize% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize, Type,, "enum" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize\enum,1514,, %Off% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize\enum,9014,, %On% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxFrameSize, Default,, "1514" HKR, Ndi\Params\HwChecksum, ParamDesc,, %HwCsum% HKR, Ndi\Params\HwChecksum, Type,, "enum" HKR, Ndi\Params\HwChecksum\enum,1,, %On% HKR, Ndi\Params\HwChecksum\enum,0,, %Off% HKR, Ndi\Params\HwChecksum, Default,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, ParamDesc,, %NumRcv% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Type,, "int" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Base,, "10" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Min,, "3" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Max,, "500" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Step,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxReceives, Default,, "50" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, ParamDesc,, %NumTx% HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Type,, "int" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Base,, "10" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Min,, "4" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Max,, "200" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Step,, "1" HKR, Ndi\Params\MaxTransmits, Default,, "50" HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A, ParamDesc,, %FlowCtrlA% HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A, Type,, "enum" HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A\enum,3,, %On% HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A\enum,0,, %Off% HKR, Ndi\Params\FlowControl_A, Default,, "3" HKR, Ndi\Params\TagHeaderSupport_A, ParamDesc,, %QoSSupA% HKR, Ndi\Params\TagHeaderSupport_A, Type,, "enum" HKR, Ndi\Params\TagHeaderSupport_A\enum,1,, %On% HKR, Ndi\Params\TagHeaderSupport_A\enum,0,, %Off% HKR, Ndi\Params\TagHeaderSupport_A, Default,, "0" HKR,, MaxMulticast,, "128" HKR,, WaitForRxResources,, "1" HKR,, SGMapRegistersNeeded,, "64" HKR,, MessageLog,, "4" HKR,, Moderate,, "1" HKR,, FixedIntMod,, "5000" ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Additional Driver Parameters for Version 2.0 Copper Adapters ; [m4cx.V2.Copper.params] ; ; Configurable Parameters ; HKR, Ndi\Params\WakeUpModeCap_A, ParamDesc,, %WakeUpCaps% HKR, Ndi\Params\WakeUpModeCap_A, type,, "enum" HKR, Ndi\Params\WakeUpModeCap_A\enum, 0,, "Off" HKR, Ndi\Params\WakeUpModeCap_A\enum, 27,, "On" HKR, Ndi\Params\WakeUpModeCap_A, Default,, "27" HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A, ParamDesc, 0, %ConnectionType% HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A, Type, 0, "enum" HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A, Default, 0, "0" HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A, Flag, 1, 20,00,00,00 HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A\enum, "0", 0, %Autosense% HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A\enum, "1", 0, %10MHD% HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A\enum, "2", 0, %10MFD% HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A\enum, "3", 0, %100MHD% HKR,Ndi\Params\ConnectionType_A\enum, "4", 0, %100MFD% HKR,, WaitForRxResources,, "0" ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; General Registry Entries ; [m4cxw9x.reg] HKR, Ndi, HelpText,, %HelpText% HKR, Ndi\Interfaces, DefUpper,, "ndis5,ndis4,ndis3" HKR, Ndi\Interfaces, UpperRange,, "ndis5,ndis4,ndis3" HKR, Ndi\Interfaces, LowerRange,, "ethernet" HKR, Ndi, Service,, "m4cxw9x" HKR,Ndi,DeviceID,,"PCI\VEN_1186&DEV_4C00" HKR,,DevLoader,,*ndis HKR,,DeviceVxDs,,m4cxw9x.sys HKR,,EnumPropPages,,"netdi.dll,EnumPropPages" HKR, NDIS,LogDriverName,,"m4cxw9x" HKR, NDIS,MajorNdisVersion,1,05 HKR, NDIS,MinorNdisVersion,1,00 [m4cxnt5x.reg] HKR, Ndi, HelpText,, %HelpText% HKR, Ndi\Interfaces, UpperRange,, "ndis5" HKR, Ndi\Interfaces, LowerRange,, "ethernet" HKR, Ndi, Service,, "m4cxnt5x" [m4cxw9x.Service] DisplayName = %m4cxndis5.DriverDesc% ServiceType = 1 StartType = 3 ErrorControl = 1 ServiceBinary = %12%\m4cxw9x.sys LoadOrderGroup = NDIS [w9x.EventLog] AddReg = w9x.AddEventLog.reg [w9x.AddEventLog.reg] HKR,, EventMessageFile, 0x00020000, "%%SystemRoot%%\System32\Drivers\m4cxw9x.sys" HKR,, TypesSupported, 0x00010001, 7 [m4cxw2k.Service] DisplayName = %m4cxndis5.DriverDesc% ServiceType = 1 StartType = 3 ErrorControl = 1 ServiceBinary = %12%\m4cxw2k.sys LoadOrderGroup = NDIS [w2k.EventLog] AddReg = w2k.AddEventLog.reg [w2k.AddEventLog.reg] HKR,, EventMessageFile, 0x00020000, "%%SystemRoot%%\System32\Drivers\m4cxw2k.sys" HKR,, TypesSupported, 0x00010001, 7 [m4cxwxp.Service] DisplayName = %m4cxndis51.DriverDesc% ServiceType = 1 StartType = 3 ErrorControl = 1 ServiceBinary = %12%\m4cxwxp.sys LoadOrderGroup = NDIS [wxp.EventLog] AddReg = wxp.AddEventLog.reg [wxp.AddEventLog.reg] HKR,, EventMessageFile, 0x00020000, "%%SystemRoot%%\System32\Drivers\m4cxwxp.sys" HKR,, TypesSupported, 0x00010001, 7 ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Source Files ; [SourceDisksFiles] m4cxw9x.sys = 1 m4cxw2k.sys = 1 m4cxwxp.sys = 1 gewmi.mof = 1 [SourceDisksNames] 1 = %DriverDisk%,,, [m4cxw9x.copy] m4cxw9x.sys,,,2 [m4cxw2k.copy.NTx86] m4cxw2k.sys,,2 [m4cxwxp.copyXP.NTx86] m4cxwxp.sys,,2 [wmi.CopyFiles] gewmi.mof,,,2 ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Destination Directories ; [DestinationDirs] DefaultDestDir = 11 m4cxw9x.copy = 11 m4cxw2k.copy.NTx86 = 12 m4cxwxp.copyXP.NTx86 = 12 wmi.CopyFiles = 11,wbem\mof ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Localizable Strings ; [Strings] DLINK = "D-Link" NetAddress = "Network Address" MaxFrSize = "Jumbo Frame Support" HwCsum = "TCP/IP Checksum Offload" WakeUpCaps = "Wake Up Capabilities" IntMod = "Interrupt Moderation" MaxIrq = "Max IRQ per Sec" LogMsg = "Log Status Messages" NumRcv = "Number of Receive Buffers" NumTx = "Number of Transmit Buffers" Sense = "Auto-Sense" On = "On" Off = "Off" Non = "None" Err = "Errors" Wrn = "Warnings" Sta = "Status Messages" All = "All Messages" A = "A" B = "B" Auto = "Auto" FlowCtrlA = "FlowControl" ConnectionType = "Connection Type" Autosense = "AutoSense" 10MHD = "10Mbps Half Duplex" 10MFD = "10Mbps Full Duplex" 100MHD = "100Mbps Half Duplex" 100MFD = "100Mbps Full Duplex" QoSSupA = "802.1p Support" DGE530T.DeviceDesc = "D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" m4cxndis5.DriverDesc = "NDIS5.0 Miniport Driver for D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" m4cxndis51.DriverDesc = "NDIS5.1 Miniport Driver for D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" DriverDisk = "D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Installation Disk" HelpText = "D-Link: Building Networks for People."

This is generally due to the DisplayIcon having a negative number. From here you can either remove the negative number or remove the last application listed: Start/Run/Regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{}

VBS messagebox example: DoneMessage = MsgboxWithTimeout ("System will now pull the update patches in 5 minutes.",10,ScriptVer & " - SUS Updates Set",0) Function MsgboxWithTimeout( Message, seconds, Title, Buttons ) 'intButton = object.Popup(strText,nSecondsToWait,Title,Buttons) 'Button Types 'Value Description '0 Show OK button. '1 Show OK and Cancel buttons. '2 Show Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons. '3 Show Yes, No, and Cancel buttons. '4 Show Yes and No buttons. '5 Show Retry and Cancel buttons. 'Icon Types 'Value Description '16 Show "Stop Mark" icon. '32 Show "Question Mark" icon. '48 Show "Exclamation Mark" icon. '64 Show "Information Mark" icon. '4096 System modal. On Win16 systems, all applications are suspended until 'the user responds to the message box. On Win32 systems, this constant 'provides an application modal message box that always remains on top 'of any other programs you may have running. 'The return value denotes the number of the button that the user clicked. 'If the user does not click a button before nSecondsToWait seconds, return is set to -1. 'Value Description '1 OK button '2 Cancel button '3 Abort button '4 Retry button '5 Ignore button '6 Yes button '7 No button on error resume next Dim WshShell set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'Display the popup message with timeout MsgboxWithTimeout = WshShell.Popup (Message, seconds, Title, Buttons) End Function

Do you have file sharing bound to the second network card? (192.168.1.40)

OK, thanks guys! I'm not a gamer and never paid any attention to video cards so I did need the guidance.

Which is the better video card: 1. Nvidia GeForce4 MX420 AGP 4x with 64 Megs 2. Nvidia GeForce2 MX400 AGP 8x with 32 Megs This is for non-game use but occasional photo-editing.

Hmmm, what was a Troll again? Troll jackpot here! (Old Chinese proverb: Increase size of bait, catch more fish)

The HAL is only one of many things that always prevented a "Universal Image" from being nearly as good as a fresh install (Even Microsoft will admit this). The problems can be subtle and appear over time, thus many people think they have mastered this. We are in the middle of testing Binary Research's UIU now. It's the first time that we have gotten perfect installs across a wide range of machines. However, if your older machines are non-ACPI, then it won't work for you. You'll still need two images.