Mekrel

Lian Li PC7SE , fantastic case with 120mm intake and exhaust . Best build quality since the old Coolermaster ATCS days. Great cooling, quiet operation and not one bit of tacky plastic in sight - except for the fans That is my case, and my foot

Ohh they look good, I'm keeping an eye out for a good set of 1GB sticks, they nearly match their 512mb predecessors which did 2-2-2-5. Would be interesting what voltage and timings are needed for 250fsb could you test that for me? The Corsair was looking like a good bet , the 3500LL that is but the heat spreaders are massive and wouldn't fit with the XP-120.

250MHz at 3-3-2-8? I'ld hardly call those the best modules out there. The corsiar stuff seems to be the best bet for 1GB modules. Il'd rather take the 3500LL at 250 with 2.5-3-2-6

Jeremy, your point is what? A more expensive card outperforms a cheaper one? Wow, who would have thought. What cyberloner say is true, ATi's AF implimentation is of better quality - I will dig out of the screenshot that portraits this the most. The thread is about a "better" card, and yep if were on about speed then the GTX 512MB is the best card but when I think of the best card, I take price/performance and image quality and application compatabilty into the equation. The X1800XT is cheaper, you get 512mb of GDDR3 ram, aniostropic filter is much better, it has a programable memory controler which can be operated for different scenarios, and recently has been made to beat/catchup the 256mb GTX in OGL API games, something ATi lacked in before due to nVidia investing the makers of OGL. Heck, I would argue that a better choice would be a either an XT or a 256MB GTX - the 512mb whilst a bloody good card is way to expensive to justify it. 500 pounds for a card which will be tops for 4-6 months? Its pointless. Either wait for the price to go down or buy the alternatives I have mentioned.

For music, the X-Mystique , completely rips apart Audigys for quality and thats without upgrading its swappable OPAMP preamp circuit. It only supports up to EAX2, but your not a gamer and most games support EAX2 across the board anyways. It can also real time incode into DDlive.

Il'd still go with ATi for 3 reasons: 1. ATi's aniostropic filtering is far superior. 2. ATi's new ring memory controller, you have not seen the last of this yet 3. ATi Tray tools, omg this app - I can't see how anyone could live without it.

My brother has one, and I think the build quality is crap.

New rig, see sig Ive got the exact same 3DMark05 score as you wich I find a big coinsidence or maybe a reason behind it, the XL wasn't at XT speeds for that test either.

You are indeed correct about PCI/AGP locks holding back overclocking, as you raise the HTT of the system, so will the speed of all the buses and they dont like to be ran out of sync when you cannot lock them. This will lead to boot problems as the controller will be on the PCI bus and general instability of other components. I would go for the A64 Newcastle myself.

UPnP is a horrible protocol and should be banished. It's for lazy people who don't want to take the time to properly configure their network. Any properly secured network would have UPnP blocked at the first entry to the network. Well... considering that one of my parent's computers is a PIII 700MHz with 128MB of RAM, having lightweight apps is a must. I couldn't even begin to imagine running Azureus on a machine with less than 256MB of RAM. It would most definately bring the system to a crawl. On my computer at home (1GB RAM), the difference in RAM usage between Azureus open and downloading 3 torrents (my internet maxes out at 140kbps) and closed is almost 400MB. UPnP isnt for lazy people at all, and how does UPnP not configure anything properly? Last time I checked, UPnP actually detects which device requested the port and properly forwards the correct port to the right device. I think you would find thats much safer than what most sites recomend those who have not got a clue how to forward a port manually. Like telling users to tell the router to allow and LAN device to connect to any WAN IP. Then once the port is no longer used, its closed. Instead of being opened and forwarded the whole time. Like I said, light weight apps for computers within the stone age. The fact is there are lot of users on this forum who worry so much about resources, when they have the resources there to use. Like people ripping the crap out of their windows install with nlite to fit it onto a computer which should not be running Windows XP in the first place. Lets also not forget that hard disks are probably the component of todays PC which sticks to Moores Law. You can get 250GB + hard disks now for 60 pounds over here. and do you really want to know why everybody gets high memory usage with Azureus half the time? Its because your average Joe and quite alot of people who think they know alot about how torrents work think "OMG! More connections = faster download! Must have more connections than there are peers and seeds!" When each TCP connection has 512kb non-paged pool overhead with it, and lets not forget also that Azureus comes with alot of plugins enabled by default that can be disabled.

I wouldn't use uTorrent if you are looking for a client that actually has a working UPnP interface I really like BitSpirit Ive never actually got the whole point of screaming about how much resources apps use, unless of course your computer is still in the stone age. For instance, Azureus ..... Ive used it, and its gotta be one of the most featured torrent program to date. Yes it uses more resources than most clients but I would rather have features than none. In terms of processing and memory usage, Azureus has never bought my system to its knees.

Hi rcordorica, I have solved my problem, but not using driver packs. I googled for the Mass Storage Device method and found a official Microsoft page on that and everything went fine Its also very simple to do and only requires editing of Winnt.sif. I will PM you exactly what I did

Well I dont wanna resinstall, but I did use nlite and then did the drivers manually, so I still have all updates added and certain things removed and reg twaks loaded via nlite. but I will see If I can get it to detect the drives. Anyway I recieved my 3800 venice today and my DFI SLI-DR Expert is on its way to me too.

Well I finally got it to work, but not using nlite although I think that nlite would have worked too. because it was not clear what was causing it to fail, I always thought it were the XP CD's to I created another using Mass storage devices within winnt.sif which I found a MS guide for on their official site. I rebooted with the CD, and it would not work , so I retired for the evening and went to bed. I woke up this morning quite early and watched the Lord Of The Rings trillogy then came onto here and read about unplugging my drive from port 1. Now, thats an interesting thought. In the past when I have had this working I do need to unplug my storage drive but Windows has always detected the raid when they are both plugged in. The only reason to unplug the one in the past, was windows would tell me that the partition (the raid array) was not suitable for Windows XP (or something to that description, I cannot remember the exact wording). If I then unplugged the drive, it would let me use the raid array to install windows. So what happened to me this time around was quite weird, but unplugging the first device did work! So thanks Now, If you want me to remake the CD but using nlite and then unplug the device to see if setup detects my disks, I can. Thanks

Thank you for your post.New questions: 1. Do you only have 2 hard disk drives? If you have more, what sort (SATA/IDE)? 2. Which sort of controller is used by these hard disk drives (nForce Sata controller or nForce IDE Controller)? 3. Have you enabled these controllers within your BIOS? 3. Did you select both required drivers nLite proposed to integrate as textmode drivers (NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller and NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER)? 1. I have 3 Hard drives, and all of them are SATA. The board has 4 SATA ports and I am currently using port 1 for my stoarage drive and ports 3 and 4 for the raid (3 and 4 because they are locked for when I overclock, im at stock at the moment) 2. Well this is one part im alittle confused about, 2 of the ports are the nvidia ones (which I think are ports 1 and 2) and the 2 other ports (3 and 4) are Marvell SATA PHY ports. The weird thing is, Ive never seen any drivers for these SATA ports, so I think they dont need their own drivers and they are covered by the nforce ones. 3. Yes, all my controllers are enabled, but I will go and scan my bios now. They must be enabled for the raid to boot from, but its worth a check. 4. Yes, I selected both the Raid class controller and storage controller, they both have (required) after them Edit: Still no good, all my bios settings are 100% correct....

Hi Mekrel,you have copied the whole content of your SETTINGS.INI with all removed languages into your post (a simple file attachment would have saved a lot of space), but you did not mention at all what happened during the install of the nLited XP CD. If you want help, you should answer to the followng questions: 1. Is your Raid array "healthy" (look at the second boot screen)? 2. At which part did the installation fail? 3. What happened exactly? 4. Has your Raid array been detected correctly during textmode part of the installation? Now a few words to the "brandnew" nForce3 driver package 5.11 you have used: The IDE drivers are exactly the same as within the 5.10 package NVIDIA had published last year. The only new component within the 5.11 package are the ethernet drivers and they have nothing to do with Sata and Raid drivers. CU Fernando Sorry, I will recorrect that in a second 1. Yes my Raid Array is healthy 2. The installtion of windows does not even start, it tells me setup cannot continue as Windows could not find any hard disks 3. Windows loads the drivers, as the Nvidia drivers flash up when its loading the txtmode drivers. Then it says its loading windows, then it tells me that it could not find any hard disks and I can only press F3 4. No, thats the problem it will not detect the raid array although I know the hardware is setup correctly as if I do it via F6 - it works Well I didnt know it was only the ethernet, I didnt check the 5.10 driver versions but as long as they are WHQL and they fix the net dropping in a few games then its fine

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Hi dale5605 I have done that and integrated the drivers, and it has gave me two options to integrate which I told nlite to do both, and as a result have two entries in the driver list that are both text mode. I know this is correct, and I also removed raidtool before too. Just making the iso now, will report back in 20mins

Hi all, I am having extreme problems with trying to get Windows setup to detect my raid array although I have had it working fine in the past by manually hacking txtsetup.sif with the same entries I did before. It tells me setup cannot find any disks, so obviously something isnt going right at the moment, and Ive tried different ways. Using nlite before reading this thread, and that didnt work. Manually doing it with hacking txtsetup.sif and I have used a few different versions users have reported and still no go. I am using an Nforce3 DFI Lanparty 250GB UT board so the drivers I am using are obviously not the same as you with the nforce4. So I thought it would be a good idea, after you have researched quite abit into this - If I ask you to go over what im planning to do, as from reading the thread, the driver layout of the nforce3 drivers are different. Today (2nd Nov) new nforce3 WHQL drivers were released, as per: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce3_winxp_5.11 So I thought being as its WHQL it would be best to use these, and the driver layout is as follows: as you can see, the files seem to be all in one folder, do I have to seperate them out (I.e look into the infs and find what files it needs, and put the Raid and ATA controller into seperate folders). The Raid bios version is 4.52 and im pretty sure this is the latest version I can get, as I have the latest beta bios for this board. Any help greatly appreciated

Please? Anyone have any ideas? Also tried it without RyanVM update pack.... still no go Nforce5.11 WHQL is out now aswell

Oops sorry forgot to mention OS Its Windows XP Pro, Slipstreamed with SP2 and RyanVM UDP 2.0.0 via nlite Edit: I just did a test with my original Windows XP Pro disk and used F6 with the drivers off the motherboard floppy and it loaded fine, hmm. anything to do with my winnt.sif? Winnt.sif from attempted slipsteam install: ; Generated by nLite 1.0 RC2 [Data] MsDosInitiated = "No" Autopartition = 0 UnattendedInstall = Yes AutomaticUpdates = Yes [Unattended] OemPreinstall = "Yes" UnattendMode = FullUnattended UnattendSwitch = YES OemSkipEula = Yes ComputerType = "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC", Retail FileSystem = * WaitForReboot = No NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 Hibernation = No [Display] Xresolution = 1280 Yresolution = 1024 BitsPerPel = 32 Vrefresh = 60 [SystemRestore] [GuiUnattended] EncryptedAdminPassword = No AdminPassword = "xxx" TimeZone = 085 OEMSkipRegional = 1 OemSkipWelcome = 1 [Components] Iis_common = On Iis_inetmgr = On Iis_nntp = On Iis_smtp = On Iis_webadmin = On Iis_webdav = On Iis_www = On Iis_asp = On [UserData] ProductKey = "xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx" ComputerName = BEDCOMP FullName = "xxx" OrgName = "N/a" [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup = 1 SystemLocale = 00000809 UserLocale = 00000809 InputLocale = 0809:00000452 [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents = Yes [WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\MyTheme.theme"

Hi all Ive had such a frustrating evening, I used to have the unattended install of my Raid drivers working perfectly by hacking the txtsetup.sif and compressing the drivers to the i386 folder. Unfortunatly, the disk became misplaced and I cant find the quide which showed me how to do it, although I found a post which im sure is 100% the same, which I have followed but still Windows setup cannot find any hard disks. So I decided for the first time ever to use driver packs, and they are great in my opinion - Very easy to deploy, so brilliant work However, they do not solve my problem. Using: BTS_DriverPacks_BASE_V5105 DriverPack_MassStorage_V510.7z DriverPack_Chipset_V5072.7z DriverPack_Graphics_A_V5101.7z DriverPack_Sound_B_V5043.7z HWID's: =========== PCI devices =========== PCI\D347PRT\0000 : D347PRT SCSI Controller PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4A50&SUBSYS_00021002&REV_00\4&1AD7642&0&0058: RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4A70&SUBSYS_00031002&REV_00\4&1AD7642&0&0158: RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition Secondary PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1100&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&13C0B0C5&0&C0: PCI standard host CPU bridge PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1101&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&13C0B0C5&0&C1: PCI standard host CPU bridge PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1102&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&13C0B0C5&0&C2: PCI standard host CPU bridge PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1103&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&13C0B0C5&0&C3: PCI standard host CPU bridge PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00DF&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&28: NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E0&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&08: PCI standard ISA bridge PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E1&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1\3&13C0B0C5&0&00: PCI standard host CPU bridge PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E2&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&58: NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E3&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&50: NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6) PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E4&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A1\3&13C0B0C5&0&09: NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E5&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&40: NVIDIA nForce3 250 Parallel ATA Controller (v2.6) PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E7&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A1\3&13C0B0C5&0&10: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E7&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A1\3&13C0B0C5&0&11: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E8&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&12: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00ED&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&70: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00EE&SUBSYS_0C1110DE&REV_A2\3&13C0B0C5&0&48: NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6) PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3044&SUBSYS_100615BD&REV_80\4&3191A3E6&0&3070: VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller PCI\VEN_13F6&DEV_0111&SUBSYS_3731584D&REV_10\4&3191A3E6&0&4870: HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 21 matching device(s) found. =========== USB devices =========== USB\ROOT_HUB\4&127F418B&0 : USB Root Hub USB\ROOT_HUB\4&2538F230&0 : USB Root Hub USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&5FEF14&0 : USB Root Hub 3 matching device(s) found. and I also used Method 2 with RunOnceEx for the final cmd file to be ran. Hardware: DFI Lanparty UT 250GB 2*36Gb Raptor Raid 0 on ports 3 + 4 Any ideas? Edit: I know I did the slipstream process right as I saw all the different controllers loading during windows setup.

You need to loose the space between the /v and the /qn. REG ADD %KEY%\325 /V 01 /D "\"%CDROM%\Software\Diskeeper\setup.exe" /s /v/qn /v = code passed onto msi installer. So with the space, it would be *.msi / qn , when it needs to be *.msi /qn

Many thanks, Im real liking your master script idea, sounds very clever and easy to customise as when you change one of the children scripts, then the master script doesnt have to be changed to execute it I just wondered if I could have your input on something Mhz, I want to convert all of my CMD scripts into au3 scripts so they dont popup (cmdown.exe still pops up a window and other wrappers that try to hide the console fail). I did have a plan, which was to write the commands to be ran as uaul but to store them in a text file, and then for a au3 script to read it and pass each line into a Run function which called @Comspec & "/c" & "command here" but command here was obviously a variable which was read from each line and obviously done with a loop untill the end of the file was reached, but unfortunatly this spawned alot of windows as each time the run function was called = another instance of cmd.exe being made. So I thought I would use _RunDos but I kept getting some kind of error. Any ideas on to make a au3 script which will cleanly and silently run a cmd script? Cheers for the help so far

Hi Mhz and thanks for the wealth of info in this thread, I was looking for a script to install applications via RunOnceEx like you have posted, however your script seems limited in one small way. Sometimes with my install, each application has two steps to it, such as an example installing the program and then running a SFX archive to replace config files etc.. such as in this example: REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "SmartFTP + Settings" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Apps\SmartFTP\SFTPNSI.exe /S" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\Apps\SmartFTP\Settings.exe" /f with your script it appears to not be able to add more than one step and probably because you SFX all your applications into switchless ones? Im pretty handy enough to use AutoIT (although no where near as good as nologic and yourself) but cant see how to modify the script to add support for two step applications. Any info/help especially an updated script would be very much appreciated. Many thanks!