Fonceur

I am connected by a DVI cable... I know that there is no way for Windows to check that specific monitor file and say "oh, that monitor would go well with that driver file", which is why my question is about a way to force a driver install for a specific hardware (my monitor)...

I wanted to do that too with XP Pro Corp/nLite'd/slipstreamed/hotfixed/unattended, so I used BCDW to do it. My first try looked like this: \MyBootCD\bcdw \MyBootCD\$OEM$ \MyBootCD\XP_1 \MyBootCD\XP_2 \MyBootCD\XP_3 where I had hex edited the SETUPLDR.BIN to replace (4 times per file) i386 by XP_1 and so on. In the TXTSETUP.SIF I tried with or without the SetupSourcePath = "\XP_1\" and also used an xpboot.img (hex edited for XP_1) instead of SETUPLDR.BIN, but the installation was always chocking at the quick NTFS reformat part... Since my single boot CD was working fine, I figured there must be some i386 still laying around. Sure enough, by trying instead: \MyBootCD\bcdw \MyBootCD\$OEM$ \MyBootCD\i386 \MyBootCD\XP_1 \MyBootCD\XP_2 I was able to boot i386, but also XP_1 and XP_2 as they must be relying on some files from the i386 folder... The WINNT.SIF from the appropriate folder was used each time though. Since I am using CDImage to create the ISO file, it's not a big deal as all the duplicate files are replaced by links, so it's not taking CD space anyway... But I would think that it might be possible to get it to work by having a normal i386 folder, with XP_1 and XP_2 having minimal files in them, maybe only SETUPLDR.BIN, WINNT.SIF and TXTSETUP.SIF with a judicious choice of which i386 to hex replace and which to keep... [edit] Ok so it is not that simple, I get a reboot with a minimal set of files... So for now I will stick with multiple copies of the files and let CDImage sort it out! I might try to figure it out later... [/edit]

I am doing an actual installation on a spare drive, since it is so easy with a CD rw... I just don't like getting stuck with 720x480 until I load the monitor .inf file myself...

Thanks to this site my unattended CD is almost done and I just need to iron out some little problems here and there... My first problem is that Windows XP corp installs a Plug and Play monitor instead of the monitor file that I put in my driver folder (.inf file that I created with Powerstrip for my HDTV). Is there any way to force it to use that monitor file instead? By searching the forums all I could find was someone thinking about doing that, but not actually doing it...

Any updates on that problem due to removing components (with nlite .962 in my case)? Using windowsupdate to reapply KB826939 patch does get it sorted out, but KB835732 keeps showing as needing to be installed... Keeping some of the components such as sytem restore, ms agent and so on has no effect...