rendrag

to be honest, I do not remember the details... if you do a search for the topic, it should come up

i would have to say yes if he got through the text-mode portion of setup, but this is assuming that the barracuda is a SATA drive. Is it?

what about this thread? will that work? Found it by searching for "aol instant messenger" http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...stant+messenger

seems easy enough... will have to include it in my next build... very nice

ground loops can cause equipment reboots, and potential equipment failures as the voltage difference flowing between the 2 grounds can fry things. google it if you want to read a bunch of articles on it

it's been asked before, and i was under the impression from previous posts that it's not something you can edit

drivers are drivers and applications are applications... their installation requirements are different. in the INF, under source disk files, it should tell you the required files to get the hardware working. sometimes it's just inf and cats, other times it may be more, depending on the hardware. I honestly would put the required files in the same directory as the inf, unless the sourcediskfiles showed a subdirectory in the path to the files. As far as mixer and playcenter, those are apps, so those would have to be installed separately, and a silent install setup for those. hope that helps

if you can figure out what was done you can try to fix it, however I might not hold out hope. I'd back up your data, reformat/install windows and call it a learning lesson

wouldn't this be easier? "%install_dir%\sav\antivirus.msi /qb-! RUNLIVEUPDATE=0 REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS ENABLEAUTOPROTECT=1 just put the data1.cab in the same folder as the MSI and you're golden

it's been discussed before... basically USB uses the FAT partition, and CD uses CDFS... hard drives, usb or other, do not have the ability to utilize a boot image to force a boot off of it, like a CD does (afaik).

sorry to all the eagles fans, but we have a dynasty in the making... GO PATS

anyone else read PC Gamer's spread on that game??? looks pretty amazing. Looking forward to it as I loved the Morrowind games. thoughts?

my experience has been that if you have more than 1 "My Documents" folder, if you log in as "A" user for example, then you would see a My Documents folder, and a "B's Documents" folder (assuming the other user was named B). So as long as you specify which folder to set as the My Documents folder, you should be set. I hope that made sense

that is crazy

to be honest, i'm not sure runonce can do that, though I'm sure I'll be corrected if that's not the case... I personally would put all those DEL commands into a seperate command file (such as cleanup.cmd) and make another runonce entry to run that command file. Much easier IMHO

awesome job... looks great

@ livecrys - have you checked on Zone Lab's website for this error? http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs might be a good resource @ muiz - echo Installing Zone Alarm Pro 5.1.033 start /wait %I%\zonealarm\zalarm.exe /s /i /noreboot /lickey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that's for the version I'm installing, %I% is a variable I assigned referring to my CDROM\Install\ directory you can format livecrys's code if you're using the same version. EDIT obviously you would replace the X's with your license key if you have the PRO version

pretty interesting read... haha now i gotta go get an umbrella and pick a fight

well, my experience with Lite-on is less than stellar... SOHW-1633S. I have gone through 2 of those dual layer DVD burners, and 1 crapped out during a burn and would no longer read any CDs. Got that replaced after 3 weeks of haggling with 3 levels of support (mind you, I had owned it for exactly 37 days when it died on me). 2nd (new) one will always coasterize a CD when the 48x rated cd-burner portion burns at 48x (media is rated 48x). I have to drop it to 40 to actually successfully burn. Their tech support is horrible. To be honest, the only company I have ever dealt with that has good support is APC (they make UPS battery backup systems for computers and datacenters and such)

that information would be defined in the WinNT.sif file. I believe that is accomplished in the GUIunattended section. You would set the admin password to * if you wanted none, or you would put in whatever you wanted http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm

how are you attempting to install this? i.e. from a windows prompt, or during an unattended installation? Could you paste your batch file in 'code' tags?

pop the other ram stick in the same slot you're currently using with 1 stick and test it.... it could be the slot on the motherboard too. if after 11 hours you still have no reboots with the 2nd stick, pop the 1st back in, preferably into a 3rd slot if available, leaving the 2nd slot open

well, if each PC only has 1 nic, you would need to add a 2nd nic to one of the computers, obviously. I'm not sure how to accomplish that in XP, though i'm sure there's some website online that tells you. Other option is a hub instead. 4 port hub may cost you $10 if that

i'm sorry... that's hillarious.... hahahahaha

wrong I did think so, and I found out its not that way. The only definite way is to go with what the setupmgr creates for you - just notice where it puts quotes and where it doesn't. And for values that setupmgr won't create, you have ref.chm in deploy.cab. huh... good to know