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well this is not the place for it but basicly a radeon 9600 pro is faster than a 5900 ultra in anything htat needs dx9 level hardware. Nvidia has been cheating to no end a denies everything. The half life2 beches jsut hit the net and nvidia is once again denying everything but even at nvnews (a fan site for them) nvidia has been getting flamed. One guy who was a die hard nvidiot who even had a 5800 ultra and a 5900 ultra had taken his nvidia sticker off of his case and was pretty angry at nvidia. He's getting an ati card by the way.

ok I'm almost done with it I'm working out the little nigglies now. Sorry to many irons in hte fire and I've been reading about how bad nvidia sucks today.

the raid is done down below wiht the settings of = ultra also to note i have it working just fine wiht raid now on other boards let me know hot it goes for you.

lol that is not doe through the winnt.sif. There is a sticky topic at the top that tells you how to do it.

Ok somebody pm'd me wanting his fastrack raid drviers slipstreamed into the install here they are I thought others may enjoy them also. You need to put IDE_RAID into your drivers directory then the stuff in i386 goes into your i386 directory. THESE FILES WILL ONLY WORK WITH SERVICE PACK ! slipstreamed into your install. The txtsetup.sif changed between sp1 and the original windows xp otherwise it would work with both. If anybody has problems with it let me know. http://www.webmedic.net/drivers.cab

sorry yes he beat me to it.

thanks I grabbed it already.

ah ancient chinese secret. No really cmdlines.txt calls my inf install script which in turn calls the other things. What you are refering to is movie maker 2 and .net both. They both use the msi installer. You can simply give a command that starts up the windows installer service and then it installs the stuff no problem. Only thing is it leaves big ugly command windows open durring install. There is no output in them and no way to get rid of them without messing up the installer. As soon as the install ends the windows close on thier own. Not only that dont believe evrything you here. The first thing I do is set up my user account after that you can install all the apps you want. Now I did find other problems with doing it this way like not being able to clean up all the lnk's and stuff due to them being in funny places durring graphic install. Graphic install uses some strange path varaibles for some things which menas you have to tweak things to get them to the right palces. If I wanted to though I could do the whole app proccess before you ever get to guirunonce and have durring a few installs.

hos is your directory structure. Were do you have this folder. Try placing it at the head of your c drive like so c:\prep or wahtever you have named it. Make sure there are no spaces. Other than that you are the only one I'vve seen with this error so it has to be something specific to your system or were you have placed the folder that you do your work in. I have changed the file a little to automaticly find your directory and directories with spaces in then can cause problems.

ah make shure you have the hotfixes in the proper directories. If it finds no hot fixes the the first directory it will just stop like that.

well were do you get it. I could try to slipstream it.

ah yes. I prefer to have system things installed before first boot. it's better to have it wetup before the first uer boots into the system. Not to mention i did it that way to get the hacked uxtheme.dll to work before miso gave us the one he did and since it is already set up that way I'll leave it. Mostly it just to have system stuff setup. and also soonish here I should have some extra things slipstreamed into the installer but they can be done like hotfixes through the svcpack.inf because the registry is so much different so they need to be done through cmdlines.txt before first boot. DX9 and .net 1.1 are good examples of this.

no I used to do this winth windows 98 but there are a handfull of registry keys you can use to not allow the use of windows update on your system you may have used those.

ok if I get time latter today I'll post a topic on how to use inf files for your install. It's not so hard but I did have to mess with it quite a while to get some parts of it figured out.

no there are two thingies floating around here that are actual programs. One using xml and another using an ini file for setting them up to do the install stuff for you. My inf installers can be sed anywere and anytime. They could be used under win98 if you wanted to. As for me i install the .net stuff from an inf file that is started from cmdlines.txt.

thanks for this tool it's looking quite nice. better than the default micrsoft one at any rate. But then thiers is more of a wizard for idots type thing. It scares me to think sysadmins out there cant figure out a winnt.sif file and have to use a wizard for idiots type thing.

problem wiht that is that is that it will only apply to current user and not evey user on the system. I guess that would be so with both though. I thinking about having a script in startup for the default user that do a few things the first time they login. Like turn on quick links, run pspad the first time, and now it could also run this little thingy to set seccurity settings. then I jsut need it to log them out really quick and delete itself.

yes I can host it.

yup I added this to the slipstream worked just fine.

in which way does it not work?

get the kazza lite codec pack It has a bunch of codes in it wihtout the other garbage.

hm not really and the problem there is that if the hotfixes are not poart of the instller then everytime you chane something on your system and it reverts back to files from ssytem32 then you can loose your updates and they can be replaced by older files.

I cant send an email right now but you can email them to me at bah at webmedic dot net

yea and all those nifty little installer look good thingies are using .net . It amkes it hard to use something that isn't even installed early enough in install. I think those things look nice and all but wont be vrery usable durring install.

ok guys I can test I'll try a build without it today.