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I know the ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe bourd uses that controller. Here's a link to the drivers page for that board http://support.asus.com/download/download....SLanguage=en-us hope it helps. The link doesn't go directly to the download page for the K8V-se MB

Are you trying to install the drivers within VMWare? That wont work, you'll need to instll to a real machine to test any driver installations. I use a second hard drive for that purpose.

ripken204, Thanks for your help

The cheapest price and still be a good match. I was searching Newegg and found a set of 2.1 speakers listed for around $100 with 100 DB SNR. can't remember the frequency response, maybe 30 to 20K. Most speaker docs don't list the SNR just the frequency response. So should I be conserned with the SNR of the speakers? Also I guess there's other concerns like how well there built etc. I haven't decided on 2.1 or 5.1 or what yet just trying to get an idea on what to look for. I built a PC with three Hauppauge wintv 250 tuner cards and Snap stream software. Right now I'm using on board sound. with creative inspire 5.1 soeakers. The speakers aren't setup properly for 5.1 which is why I'm not sure if I need or want 5.1 speakers.

What is a good speaker to pair with a Creative X-Fi sound card?

It depnds on the type of install. If your installing from a CD the the $OEM$ should be on the same level as the i386 directory. And if from a network share then it should be inside the i386 directory.

Extract the files using winrar to a directory and install using DXsetup.exe /silent.

I use this line in a batch file to set up my environment variables REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v "Path" /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%%SystemRoot%%\system32;%%SystemRoot%%;%%SystemRoot%%\System32\Wbem;%%ProgramFiles%%\Common Files\Ulead Systems\MPEG;%%ProgramFiles%%\Ulead Systems\Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE;%%ProgramFiles%%\Nero\Nero 7\Core\nero.exe;" /f I tried extracting a reg file and kept having problems. So I extracted it as a text file so I could see what the contents actually was and write my own reg file. But I couldn't figure out how to create a REG_EXPAND_SZ key in a reg file so I ended up using REG.

If you double the height of the task bar it will show the time, day of the week and the date.

If your numlock key is working, doesn't it toggle that behavior? Anyway here's a regtweak to set numlock on Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard] "InitialKeyboardIndicators"="2"

UnattendSwitch = Yes

I don't see where %PP% is defined in your runonce file?

In your winnt.sif do you have [uNATTENDED] OemPreinstall = Yes

can't help with the backspace key but changing ; Lock The TaskBar [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "LockTaskbar"=dword:00000001 to ; Lock The TaskBar [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "LockTaskbar"=dword:00000000 fixes your taskbar problem

Maybe OemFilesPath = "A:\" or OemFilesPath = "A:\myfiles" would work The first case cmdlines.txt goes in the top level of the floppy. The second it goes in a dir on the floppy called myfiles.

When I install avg 7.1 plus firewall unattended the firewall is either all on or all off. I can't add or edit profiles or change the configuration. I installed it manually and am able to block specific apps and edit profiles etc. Anyone know of any additions settings to put in the ini file for the firewall? Or anything else I should change. I'm using this .ini file HIDE: DONT_START_APPS: NO_WELCOME: NO_AVGW_STARTUP: QUIT_IF_INSTALLED: USER_ENUM_MODE: ALL LANGID: 0x409 NAME: "Jim Manning" COMPANY: "Home" LICNO: "key goes here"

Don't know if this will be any help or not http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330134

Yes, but thats calling start in a batch file called by cmdlines.txt

Its probably because cmdlines.txt doesn't recognize the start command. If the command you want to run aren't in the $OEM$ folder then you have to enter the path to them. This guide helped me out. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/14/

OemInfName=em202f5.inf","ema202f.inf should be OemInfName="em202f5.inf","ema202f.inf"

@MHz I added a timeout parameter to the winwait calls but it still waits forever in vmware and always works running from windows. @benners I made a silent install. It works perfectly in windows, haven't tested it on my unatteded CD yet.

I'm haviing a problem installing Spyware Blaster unattended in vmware. The problem is that the autoit script waits for me to click on next before it continues when called from my runonceex. But if I run it after windows is installed it works as expected. Haven't tried it in a real install yet, but I don't think it would be different. here's my runonceex.cmd, not the whole file rem PP=hidec /w %SystemDrive%\Install\ SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REM for %%i in (D: E: F: G: H: I: J: K: L: M: N: O: P: Q: R: S: T: U: V: X: Y: Z:) do if exist %%i\win51 set CDROM=%%i REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Perfect Disk" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "hidec /w %SystemDrive%\install\perfectdisk32\perfectdisk32.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "winrar" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "hidec /w %SystemDrive%\Install\winrar\setup.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Spyware Blaster" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "hidec /w %SystemDrive%\Install\blastersetup\setup.cmd" /f Then my setup.cmd which calls an autoit script. cmdow @ /HID %Systemdrive%\install\blastersetup\spywareblaster.exe Here's the script Opt("WinWaitDelay",200) Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",1) Opt("WinDetectHiddenText",1) Opt("MouseCoordMode",0) Opt("ExpandEnvStrings",1) Opt("WinSearchChildren",1) Opt("WinTextMatchMode",2) Opt("TrayIconDebug",1) Run("BLSSETUP.EXE") If Not WinWait("Setup - SpywareBlaster") Then ProcessClose("BLSSETUP.EXE") Exit EndIf If Not WinActive("Setup - SpywareBlaster") Then WinActivate("Setup - SpywareBlaster") EndIf Send("!n") Do $text = winGetText("Setup - SpywareBlaster","License Agreement") Until StringInStr($text,"I &accept the agreement") Send("!a") Sleep(100) Send("!n") Sleep(100) Do $text = winGetText("Setup - SpywareBlaster","Information") Until StringInStr($text,"Please read the following important information") Send("!n") Do $text = winGetText("Setup - SpywareBlaster","Select Destination Location") Until StringInStr($text,"Setup will install SpywareBlaster into the following folder.") Send("!n") Do $text = winGetText("Setup - SpywareBlaster","Select Additional Tasks") Until StringInStr($text,"Which additional tasks should be performed?") Send("!n") Do $text = winGetText("Setup - SpywareBlaster","Ready to Install") Until StringInStr($text,"Click Install to continue with the installation") Send("!i") Do $text = winGetText("Setup - SpywareBlaster","Completing the SpywareBlaster Setup Wizard") Until StringInStr($text,"Setup has finished installing SpywareBlaster") Sleep(100) Send("{SPACE}") Sleep(100) Send("!f") exit

Not sure I understand the question? But the winnt.sif file goes in the top level of the i386 folder.

I think Autopartition and Repartition shouldn't be used together. It will probably work if you installing to a new drive with no windows installed from ref.chm Autopartition Installs Windows to the first available partition that has adequate space for a Windows installation and does not already contain an installed version of Windows. Repartition Specifies whether to delete all partitions on the first drive of the client computer and to reformat the drive with the NTFS file system.

It's been my experience that if you have oempreinstall=yes in your winnt.sif file that F6 will not work. You'll still get the prompt to press F6 to install drivers. But you'll get errors saying it can't read the disk or something like that.