up2us

up2us, when you say you have no video or network in the Device Manager, do you mean none at all? Usually that means the components are not enabled in your BIOS. Please open your Device Manager and under View, click Show hidden devices. Do you see your devices? If there is a missing driver, you usually see a yellow bang (yellow exclamation). It looks like you do not know what drivers to select in your Last Session. You need to determine which drivers are really needed and select them only. I also see you have selected some 64 bit drivers. These will not work on your 32 bit system and I am surprised you have not encountered BSODs. I also feel that you should never use other SW with nLite. Others may disagree, but using RVM then nLite is asking for trouble in my opinion. So, clean up your driver section to include only the needed drivers, run only nLite, start with a fresh copy of your source and run nLite only one time. Speaking of your source, where did it come from? DLing Windows from any site other than Microsoft's means an illegal copy of Windows and these forum rules do not permit discussion of illegal SW. Your copy of Windows must be legal with a valid and legal key. Enjoy, John. EDIT: I just noticed Vista and W7 drivers - not going to work (BSOD land). Get rid of them. I do see the yellow bang on all of the devices. The session.ini that is attached is from an Nlite only setup. I did not strip down the drives and am trying that as I type the DVD is burning. I always start each try with a fresh copy of XP. I have a directory of the XP cd and then make a copy and use it for each try and then delete it before the next and make a new copy. The XP os is a licensed download from microsoft volume license center. I will not say I have never played with improper software but all software that is on my machines has been bought and paid for. I will be more careful to not include drivers not needed for XP only. Thanks for the reply.

I have been trying for weeks now to create a windows XP Pro SP3 disk with most of the needed drivers. When I look at the session.ini it appears they are there but when I load windows I have not network or video card in device manager. I have tried using drivepacks and also downloading the drivers from dell one at a time and never see a change. I know it is not that big a deal to load the nic drivers after installation and then get the rest but it would be nice to have a disk that just loads and once I understant what I am doing wrong can then keep it up to date. The one I am working on is for the dell latitude and optiplex group. I do not care if it is to large for a cd as a DVD is fine. I would apprecitate any help. The disk is a fresh download of XP with SP3. I have tried using RVM then Nlite then DrivePacks in that order or just using Nlite and installing the drivers by themself. Last Session.ini