Corvettaholic

To answer your questions, Bashrat: A) Actually, it IS an Intel chipset based motherboard. The RAID controller is the Intel ICH5R (82801ER). It has a different BIOS made by Adaptec, and thus it requires Adaptec's driver. But the hardware is identical. B) The DB HWID appears to come from the Ultra ATA controller, and the DF HWID is the RAID. That's why the driver only supports DF.

Here are the HWID's for the Adaptec SATA Host RAID Controller that does not work... They're attached to this post hwids.txt

@Bashrat Will do, I just need to wait for another one to come down the line. I usually get one or two a day, but as soon as I get one you'll be the first to know the HWID's (except for me of course) What I did notice though, is that in your driverpack it has the same HWID as the Intel controller that uses iastor.sys? I tried using just the Adaptec SATA RAID HOST controller drivers and ID's and omitting anything Intel, and it always seems to freeze during the 'starting windows' part of the dos-type install (not the GUI part). Back in the day when I tried making my own driverpacks, it always went to a screen saying it couldn't find hard drives, but now it just sits there. Progress! But anyhoo, I'll get those HWID's to you!

I can't get the Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Controller to work. Way back in the I tried to slipstream it myself before I knew driverpacks existed, and couldn't get it to work then. Its the one that uses aarich.sys. Anyone else having a problem with this controller? I'm using a supermicro X5DPA-TGM, and there's a couple other mobo's I have that use this.

@Bashrat I went through our parts vault, and every SM motherboard we have uses the E7520 Lindenhurst Intel Chipset. When you said you included the Intel chipsets, did you just cover the desktop single CPU drivers, or did you add the dual CPU server chipsets too?

Are you going to include chipset drivers for SuperMicro by any chance? I use a lot of their server boards and when doing a "normal" installation the SM Bus Controller always pops up.

By clicking on the ads I can download the driverpack BASE, LAN, Graphics B, Mass Storage, and WLAN no problem. I can't seem to download the Sound or Graphics A. Says the file doesn't exist?

I tried to open up setup.exe like I did with other installs to grab an MSI file, but it won't let me crack it open. I'm thinking there is no MSI file. When I install it normally, it seems to PC World (who made this program) uses a lot of autoIT scripts to work the program. Maybe I'm stuck with getting an autoIT script to do my dirty work for me? Are there any other possible switches I can try with setup.exe?

I have World Bench 5 on two CD's, so I copied the contents of both to one folder on the HDD. Then I ran "setup.exe -r" because I wanted a setup.iss file. When the install was done, there was no .iss file nor a log file. So then I tried running "setup.exe /silent /noreboot", just like my nero setup thingy, and it asked me all the same questions. No unattended here! So then I made an autoIT script, I'm still new at this, to use daemon tools to mount .iso's of the program and whip through the install. Its buggy to say the least, because I use this on a wide variety of machines. Maybe it would be easier to copy the directory containing both CD's over the network, run the setup, THEN have the autoIT script take over the answer stuff. What I really really want though, is to use the .iss or /silent method with setup.exe. I don't want to use an autoIT script unless I have to. Any ideas?

Thanks a million!

So I made a boot image of Server 2003 Standard. Then I copied over my $OEM$ directory from my known good unattended XP Pro CD. Next I copied over the winnt.sif into the proper place, and adjusted the product key of course. Next I copied the necessary lines out of txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf and copied those lines over to the existing files on the server 2003 boot image. Then I created iso, burned CD, and tested it out. Yay, it works ALMOST perfect! The only unattended thing it doesn't do pertains to the licensing mode. Server software loves licensing, its just its nature I suppose. But anyway, it stops me once and only once when asks if I want to set it up for device CAL's or user CAL's. How do I put that in an answer file where it will default to device CAL?

Thanks for the help! I'll begin looking into that immediately. I'm supposed to have this thing deployed no later than friday

No way! This is what I'm trying to accomplish: I load XP Pro unattended using my bashrats pack, and maxxp's unattended installer. Got it working on about 75% of the machines we build. When it hits a desktop, a little VB program I wrote gives me a couple options. 1) run my burn-in programs such as prime95, world bench 5, 3dmark2004, and so on. Then it will compile a results report. After all this is complete, the report will forwarded over the network to my master machine then all burn-in stuff is deleted off the HD. 2) this option is to be used after the burn-in, and it will run sysprep with my modified sysprep.ini file, thereby prepping the system for customer use if they bought the OS from us. 3) If the customer did NOT buy the OS from us, I still had to load it to run my benchmark stuff but now I don't need it anymore. So I want to smear it from windows. I mean, I COULD just walk around the corner and grab my trusty f-disk floppy, but I'd love to have this as concise and easy as possible. Hope this sheds some light on why I need to wipe the boot partition while i'm sitting in it

Is it possible, while in windows XP sitting at the desktop, to wipe the partition? I don't want to recover anything. I just want to run a batch file from windows, that deletes itself and everything on the partition. How do I do this?

Does the driverpack include all the onboard video kind of stuff? Got a crapload of it here, because thats what my company primarily uses. Once I get my paws on the video driverpack, I'll upload what I have different so you can snag it.

1) As far as the wallpaper, what I did was find the bliss.jp_ in your /I386 folder and kill it. Take your NEW wallpaper and change the name to bliss.jpg. Use MAKECAB to turn it into bliss.jp_ and put it where the old one was. Do a search of the forum to find out where to stick any themes/wallpapers/whatever you want copied over. There's different paths you can use in your $OEM$ folder. 2) Run a search on the forum, there are a TON of guides. One or two of them are usually stickied somewhere, also check the device driver forum for driver info. Bashrat the Sneaky has a wonderful driverpack for unattended installations. 3) Winnt.bat? I've never heard of it or used it (to my knowledge) and my unattended CD works great on 70% of the bazillion configurations I use it on.

What I've noticed with the driverpack is that if there is a RAID and non-RAID driver for the same controller, there's a good chance you'll have problems. If you wipe the one you don't want out of the driverpack, it seems to be better. I have evidence of this with the Si3112 and Si3114 controllers. I use the Promise378 on a regular basis in RAID mode, so I don't know about non-RAID. What about setting it up as a RAID 0 array and using RAID mode?

About the Si3112 and Si3114 SATA controllers, if you include the non-RAID versions then the RAID ones won't work. How do I know? I'm an OEM and I get to test plenty of things, those controllers absolutely will not work for me unless I take the non-RAID ones out of the driver pack. Hope this helps!

I believe txtsetup.sif is what you are looking for. Check out this link: http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-inf...t/msg00107.html Could be really useful, because they are also using symmpi.sys and it goes into great detail all the steps taken to fix the problem.

Didn't think of extracting using winrar, I'll give it a go! Thanks for your help! EDIT: Just downloaded the main .exe file and extracted all the goodies. There is no winxp path, or any path really. It came with some .cab files which aren't windows cabs so winzip won't open it. I found some obscure utility to pop them open, and there's nothing useful in there. Maybe the older versions of nvidia's video driver have the winxp folder in there? I used winrar, and also just clicked on it to extract files. Both methods extract the same stuff.

I went through all the 9 pages of the device driver forum and did a search, but I couldn't find any posts related to my specific problem. The driver pack does GREAT work, except for display stuff. I know you're still working on the video driver pack, no rush, so I'm trying to get it to work following your format. Basically what I did was download the latest nvidia video drivers, unpacked it all in a temp dir, and copied everything, and I mean everything, to the appropriate driver folder and referenced it in the winnt.sif file, just like you did with all those driverpack files. This method worked great for all the onboard video drivers I added for other motherboards. The 2 primary nvidia cards I use are the 6800GT and 5700, I'm just wondering why I can't get the video drivers to work properly. Once, and only once, XP fully installed with the drivers installed. Does the order of the driverpath in oempnpdrivers= really matter? Cause I messed around with that before it stopped working again. Oh, that blue screen error I was getting before was always a Stop 7B blue screen. Maybe that helps. The board that I do most of my testing on has an Nforce3 chipset on it. I figured maybe its the GART driver, so I put that in the driver thingy, but no good. Probably missing something small and stupid

Try disabling any drivers you don't need. I did that with all the WLAN drivers, but that was mainly because I needed space on my CD and didn't feel like making a ton of cabs. BTS: Do you plan on including a driverpack for video? I've got a lot of different onboard video drivers, and tested quite a few of them. I'm having a ton of problems with nvidia though, although my ATI driver thingy worked (because I read the whole thread on it 5 times )

I set up the oeminfo.ini nicely and included the oemlogo.bmp file, and it works great. Now I want to add a hyperlink to my company's website under support info. My question is this: can I include functional html and have it show up and work properly in the oeminfo.ini?

Hooah! Success! I understand that this way works, but I don't know WHY it works. Under the [sCSI] section in txtsetup.sif, and everything associated with that, I use "iastor" as opposed to "iaStor_ICH5R" like in txtsetup.oem. A simple name change fixed it. Any particular reason for this? Regardless, I'm just going to go with it since it works. I love this forum!

Just did a search up to a year ago, and there are some threads on the controller I'm trying to use, but I couldn't find anything too specific to this controller. A lot was on xpcreate and getting different mass storage controllers to work. But I did get something useful out of it. I noticed in everyone else's txtsetup.sif file, the controller is referred to as "iastor" as opposed "big nasty thing I got from the txtsetup.oem file". So I made a change and burning a CD now, going to test it out on a supermicro subsystem I have laying around.