NuVanDibe

i'm getting the video card black screen on startup error, where the pc becomes unresponsive just before the login screen. there is a fix for this, KB938194, but when i try running it, it says "The update does not apply to your system" i know for a fact that it is meant to fix the exact problem i'm having. i'm willing to risk ruining my installation. just someone please tell me how to install this thing manually... edit: p.s. i am using the proper version of the update for my version of vista. please don't reply with anything like, "you should download the update for your version of vista." or "are you sure you're using the x64 update with x64 vista?"

I had a 3 gig dvd which wouldnt work. I compressed a lot of my programs into sfx rars, and reburned it at 2500 megs. It worked fine. Now it's back up to 3 gigs again and i'm getting boot problems again. The problems seem random between dvd's, too. From files being corrupted, to "ntldr" being missing..... one dvd installed fine up until runonceex, then on the third program, it started giving errors. i tried rebooting, but it gave an overflow error when booting from dvd. i rebooted again and it said it was missing ntldr. O_o

Ok, I will but now I'm having a completely different problem which I'll post in another thread.

Bah, my title was too long. It's installing automatically to my 3rd hard drive, E:. My current installation of windows was on my first hard drive, C:. However, I want to CHOOSE a partition, not have it install on any hard drive automatically. Here's my winnt.sif: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] FileSystem=* UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes UnattendSwitch="yes" OemPreinstall=No TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=20 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx FullName="NuVanDibe" OrgName="_" ComputerName=Danger-Computer [Display] BitsPerPel=24 Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024 Vrefresh=85 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=7,10,9,1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=MsHome [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off Wuts wrong?!

Wpa nazis. I understand that they want to protect their software, but for someone who abuses windows as much as I do (I crash it as a hobby x.x) it can get pretty annoying.

(halaacpi.dll or halacpi.dll or something like it) could not be loaded. the error code is 4. press any key to reset. Anyone know what could be causing this? I went and made a fresh root dir and a fresh winnt.sif file, billboard, and copied my \INSTALL AND \$OEM$ directories into it. Still gives me the same error message. Never gave me the error before, and I'm copying from the exact same backup ISO of my windows cd. =edit= this is after the [setup is checking your system configuration] and before the partition select screens.

*looks at msi file* *looks at cab files* *looks at msi file again* ........what do i do with it? where does everything go? ==Edit== Whoops, never mind. I was leaving off a quotation mark in my command line. I feel like such a newbie now, lol ==Edit2== I stuck it in a self-extracting rar file XD

Well, its working now. I used WinntbbuEd.

@MHz Lol, nobody's perfect, especially not me. Although, I only became aware of the concept of unattended/silent stuff about 6 days ago, so I'm really really new to this kind of thing. Not to coding, but to unattended. Stuff. @clavicle I don't think mine has savenow... *goes and checks* ...No, I don't think it does, and savenow isn't running in my processes. I downloaded it directly from the dtools website. It's the latest x86 version.

dtools.cmd installs w/o rebooting, then windows reboots, and at the first login, dtools.exe finishes the installation.

LOL omg........ Ok, i fixed it. X3

I came up with two ideas for installing Daemon Tools 4, integrating it into Windows XP. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the resources to test either. Can someone help me out? I'll only post the first method for now. Method 1: Add the following code to cmdlines.txt: [COMMANDS] "dtools.cmd" Create a file "dtools.cmd" in $OEM$ and insert the following: SetLocal enableextensions SET CDROM=%~d0 start /wait %CDROM%\INSTALL\dtools.exe EndLocal EXIT Add the following code to RunOnceEx.cmd: REG ADD %KEY%\205 /VE /D "Daemon Tools 4.03" /f REG ADD %KEY%\205 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\INSTALL\dtools.exe" /f Using AutoIT 3, compile the following code (or download the .au3 attached to the post) into dtools.exe and place the file inside (CDROOT\INSTALL): ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; AutoIt Version: 3.1.0 ; Author: Alex Parrish <nuvandibe@yahoo.com> ; ; Script Function: ; Template AutoIt script. ; ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Script Start - Add your code below here $a=0 run("daemon403-x86.exe") winwait("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)") controlclick("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","",1) winwait("DAEMON","License Agreement") controlclick("DAEMON","",1) winwait("DAEMON","Already Installed",1) if winexists("DAEMON","Already Installed") Then controlclick("DAEMON","Already Installed",2) winwait("DAEMON","Are you sure") controlclick("DAEMON","Are you sure",6) Exit EndIf winwait("SPTD setup","",5) If winexists("SPTD setup") Then controlclick("SPTD setup","",1) endIf winwait("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","Setup") while $a=0 if winexists("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","Setup must restart Windows") Then controlclick("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","Setup must restart Windows",2) Exit endIf if winexists("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","Choose Components") Then controlclick("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","Choose Components",1) $a=1 endIf sleep(1000) WEnd winwait("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","Choose Install Location") controlclick("DAEMON","",1) WinWait("DAEMON Tools 4.03HE (32 bit)","DAEMON Tools has been installed on your computer.") controlclick("DAEMON","",1203) controlclick("DAEMON","",1) Place daemon403-x86.exe into (CDROOT\INSTALL). dtools.au3

Self explanatory, really. You can make this silent with "regedit /s setfirefoxdefault.reg" setfirefoxdefault.reg

bah. how about to change the protected folder settings? "These files are hidden. This folder contains files that keep your system working properly. You should not modify its contents. <Show the contents of this folder>"

self explanatory topic. ==EDIT== http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71739