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I wish I could have this problem of yours Well I can understand what you mean by that. But when something does happen in the field, its hard to have that on-hand knowledge of how a PC or peice of hardware works in every day operation. So yes, it can be great if nothing ends up happening with it, or if a customer doesn't come up with questions you never thought to bother with. Then it becomes a pain.

That is to be expected. Why can't you use setupcomplete.cmd?

Looks like you've already found the place for those kind of questions!

Yes there is a jumper for which BIOS version you want to use. The two sets are below the (first) PCI-E x16 slot. I don't see a real picture of the board yet. I am going to bet there is a jumper on the second block. The first block is the backup BIOS. Wonder if you can move the jumper to that one and see if it boots? You can see this on Page 7 of the manual. I didn't find where those were actually discussed! Maybe those are the chips and not jumper blocks? The manual says it is an Award BIOS! However I can't seem to find the "correct" instructions but you can try this I guess. Get the appropriate BIOS version from Gigabyte's website. There looks to be 3 different board revs, I will use the 3.0 in this example. But make sure you get the appropriate one for your rev. The rev should be printed on the board somewhere. Change the autoexec.bat file that comes with the update using this format: awdflash XXXXXXXX.BIN /py/sn/f/cc/r So the one I downloaded would look like this: flashpi 965pds4.f12 /py/sn/f/cc/r Curious how they say you can use this method to recover the BIOS, but if the system doesn't POST, I can't see why booting off a floppy disk would work! This could be why: Sorry, not linking to where quote came from. But if that special part is damaged, you can't do a floppy boot and looks like chip swaps are the only way to fix that case... or get new motherboard. HOWEVER, your symptoms of the system turning on and off like that is a common thing in 965 boards, at least Intel. The reason for it was that the board doesn't see the CPU and shuts off, but of course it turns back on to try again. You can try to reseat the CPU if you can as well. Considering the events that led to this problem of yours, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a hardware failure on the system. Either there was a heat or voltage issue, a bad cap, etc.

I never end up having product around long enough to know the benefits or detriments (sic) of different driver versions.

If you use an answer file for sysprep you can try these ideas. 1. Use RouterDiscoveryEnabled in the Specialize Pass. 2. As far as File and Printer Sharing, I believe this is tied to the network location. You can try setting a Work or Home option for NetworkLocation in the oobeSystem pass.

So you are taking a Windows OS and putting OEM files into it so that it activates?

I finally got a dump AND figured out how to use 7zip to split the archive. Hopefully I didn't miss anything... adplus folder on SkyDrive Update: I've been more careful in my FF usage. I didn't end up going to FF beta because I'm technically not using FF. I'm using Palemoon which does not have a v5 beta available yet. So I'm using IE9 and Chrome a little more instead. I also disabled DWM wallpaper transitions (which was set for every 3 hours) and also updated the mouse software. I've also been hearing sounds from the video card fan, where if I tip the computer a bit it goes away. Not to leave out that one time after my monitor went to sleep, the PC would not resume to video (on any ports) to it without doing a reset.

There are many free CMS portals you can use too. I've tried Xoops, Joomla and others in the past. None of them ever worked for me so I ended up making my own system, but it doesn't function any more. Do a search for Free (language) CMS, where (language) is the one you are using on your server, like PHP or ASP.NET, C# etc.

ActionScript you mean? You need the script for inside client_ v3.0.swf? What did you make your SWF in?

.Net Framework 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5 SP1. Or you can just wait until a program complains about it being missing.

We have replaced all legacy Matrix software for Intel based desktop boards with the newer RST software. Of course testing needs to be done first, but I haven't had any problems. Remember this about Intel drivers, just because there is a new driver package version, it doesn't mean the driver for your device inside has been updated. This confuses our customers sometimes (and even our techs ) because they will think the newest driver is not installed, when it actually is. Case in point, the Intel Chipset v 1025 has v1016 files in it.

Some BIOSes (like Award) will accept a special CD at boot for an update. Its an annoying process and Its tricky getting it to fire. Is it an Award or AMI BIOS?

Just as it says in the Unattended Windows Setup Reference CHM that comes with WAIK, use DisableAntiSpyware. The link is for Vista but the value is unchanged for Windows 7.

This script seems to be overly complicated... Isn't there switches for this installer? You may also find one that creates a log during install, a must for debugging why AutoIT isn't running the app properly.

Do you mean changing it in Computer Properties or other similar locations? You can do some in the registry, some by editing files.

Welcome to the MSFN!

DISM /MOUNT-WIM /WIMFILE:d:\images\install.wim /INDEX:1 /MOUNTDIR: C:\winpe_x86\mount to unmount... DISM /UNMOUNT-WIM /MOUNTDIR:c:\winpe_x86\mount /COMMIT or /DISCARD if you make a mistake.

Couldn't you, in your script first stop the service? If it is set to automatic, you won't need to re-enable it after running your programs, as it should start up by itself after the next reboot.

Welcome to the MSFN!

Dr Who is you is?

There's always been a move to switch to the "do it yourself" method of making the recovery media, but that has been compounded by other things. Most recently, a number of Authorized Replicators had closed up shop, leaving only a handful of ones to choose from. This caused the price per disc to jump up considerably! An example is that the price-per-disc cost went up at least $10. So consider how HP or Dell used to use the model to create model specific recovery discs, the never ending product price war and the increased cost to produce recovery media. You can see why systems are coming out with the "do it yourself" method!

They seem to have more forums that you can imagine! I found a list of them here: http://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/

To service Windows 7 images, you should be using DISM. Using Imagex as the primary mounting program is deprecated. Also make sure you run your WinPE Tools Command Prompt as Administrator.