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What NIC is it and what is the HwID?

Well you have a problem right now (for sure) but I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Right now we do not know if this problem is caused by either hardware or software. The age old "it used to work fine" really doesn't apply in electronics, especially since as they age their individual component tolerances change. The same is true of software, as I expect your Windows isn't running with a RAM Overlay on it, meaning that it too has changed in little ways that are impossible to know exactly. So we already know that Windows 7 does make changes to audio levels by itself in some way, as you have seen with multiple audio sources, and as experienced by me and others. So far none of us has determined a particular method of disabling this other than using another operating system. So in order to fully test your system you will need to try a different source to see if it is a problem with the software or the hardware. If you have another hard drive and can install XP on it with drivers, etc and try to duplicate the sound dropping problem. If you do not have an XP to install, you could probably get away with using the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Trial. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/downloads/windows-embedded-downloads.aspx Or I suppose you could even install Linux and attempt to recreate the behaviour.

Map your drive before running diskpart.

Also, even though apparently it isn't required anymore, I still use: wpeutil initializenetwork In my startnet.cmd. Are you using it as well? You can see an example startnet.cmd I use here.

Well I looked at the specs of that card (on the website) and the latest OS it supports if Windows XP. Not even any Server 2003 support. It seems to me that the current firmware on that card probably doesn't know what an SSD is. Did you check to see if there was a firmware update is available for it?

I'd recommend doing your automation testing with startnet.cmd, and after you get all your commands down, switch it over to winpeshl.ini. The syntax is different for winpeshl.ini. Can you post the contents of it? (obfusicate things like server names, usernames, passwords). Also what version of WinPE are you using and what packages did you add during the build process?

You can do those with the Unattend. Look here for some samples: But not RAID configuration. I'm not sure what you specifically mean by this.

Are you getting an error?

Reminds me of long, long ago when some folks insisted 8088 systems had to be better than the 8086. Its sad in a comedic way, but I looked up 34bit CPU on google...

Welcome to the MSFN!

You can try disable UEFI boot option, or use the boot menu to choose your ODD without the UEFI prefix. With UEFI boot enabled, with the Windows 8 DVD in the drive, you should have 2 ODD options in the boot menu.

OK I think I know what you are experiencing... Tell me if this makes sense... the range of the music is greater than the range of (some piece of) hardware somewhere along the line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_%28audio%29 If this is the case, it may only be certain songs or types of songs that cause this problem. I have some MP3s that include both a wide range of sounds that I cannot trust Windows 7 to play accurately. These particular songs experience the clipping problem when I play them from an external device through my car stereo, but do not when played through my franken-stereo I built for myself. I wonder if this problem you experience happens with all songs or just certain ones.

So you have injected the drivers into your boot image? What version WinPE are you using?

1. Windows 7 pays more attention to NTFS file permissions on foreign disks, so you may need to take ownership, or grant full access to the disk to your user account,. 3. I'm not sure what you are asking here. If you had installed your OS while in IDE mode, changing it to AHCI will likely cause a 0x7B STOP error. (vice-versa applies) AHCI is recommended if you have the option with a SATA disk, also if you have an SSD as your boot disk. 4. A true sign of Aero (aka Aero Glass) being enabled is that you have transparency in your GUI. Go into Personalize and there are 2 different theme groups, Aero and Basic and High Contrast. Pick one of the Basic ones to disable Aero.

jaclaz That reminds me of when I was out at the corporate hq, and at the end of the day I shut down the notebook to a screen like that. Here's me sitting in the car, waiting on installing updates (on battery no less) while everyone is inside the restaurant having a good time.

You can see if UEFI boot is enabled in the BIOS. I notice on some hardware, when using UEFI boot, the video disappears after the "Loading Files" progressbar. I have yet to find a solution for that problem. It might be helpful if you could post what hardware you are using.

I see in both of those EULAs, they are written by the same person! Why have competing products like that?

Just a question I had, will you some time include the ability for the software to update itself to a newer version? Or the ability to check for updates?

I've never actually owned a PDA, although my favorite that I had to support was the Sony Clié.

Alternatively, if you don't want to see the CMDs on the screen, you can use CMD /K instead.

You aren't the only one to see (hear) sound problems on Windows 7. I had the luxury of using the same soundcard I have in my Windows 7 PC when that PC had Windows XP. The problems did not occur in XP. Also, surround sound never seems to work in the OS itself, but does for games. I will say that you could still have a hardware problem with the card itself, you could check the caps for bulges or leaks.

You can use DRVLOAD name.inf for your NIC.

What kind of methods? I have an idea but you need to answer my questions first.

There is a perfectly valid reason for them not doing this. There are new processes for OEMs with the Downgrade Rights program for Windows 8 than with previous versions of Windows. Its not surprising to me but it shows that HP isn't willing to spend the money to change their process in order to accomodate both OSes. Its purely a time vs money question... I'm sure HP could have figured it out, but they are playing it safe by not offering downgrades to Windows 7.

Why's that? Please share! That particular style worked well for me. Also had used some and changed colors/inverted to make other wallpapers for boot images, etc. I did like Bliss in XP, but only because I could put animated gifs on it with Active Desktop.