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Registry files are fine to redist. Not too certain about entire hives, such as SYSTEM or SAM. Best to provide scripts that add and remove the keys to the registry if there are so many changes you'd start thinking about redisting the entire hive. As it is known, no single file that gets installed by the OS can be redist, but you can redist .reg files.

I haven't used Hitachi, but I tend to try to use WD RE3 drives, even in non-RAID configurations. Except if these 2 drives are already in an array, you don't want to mix brands.

OK, so we now know your BIOS version: 1687 and your rev: 301 Based on this guy (yes I look at these often) http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15056/eng/DG965RY_TechProdSpec.pdf It makes no mention of any problem with board revs, which matches the processorfinder. This means the best CPU you can get is the E6700, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo. http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9ZF http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9S7 EDIT: I wanted to add that you do not need to do a BIOS update. The processorfinder does not show any BIOS requirements to be higher than 1687, so you should be good.

Now that you are a member, you could ask or answer a question in the nLite forum. Its not a bad thing to register really. I register on forums all the time to look at something or whatever and not actually post.

Not really e-Berlin. Maybe its because this topic was posted in the wrong place. We do have a phone forum: http://www.msfn.org/board/handheld-devices-f71.html And a news section: http://www.msfn.org/board/technology-news-f63.html And a place for you to post links to your own website: http://www.msfn.org/board/websites-boards-f4.html However, if you had posted a link to a media outlet instead, you probably wouldn't have gotten your post edited in the first place. Here is one for example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/purported_iphone_4g/

Looks to be so. Check this list, it shows what CPUs this board supports and also what BIOS or hardware Rev is needed in order to use them: http://processormatch.intel.com/CompDB/SearchResult.aspx?Boardname=dg965ry The Hardware Rev is a number printed on a white sticker on the board, usually near the memory slots. You can use this tool if you can't find it: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-012681.htm In the picture on that page, It says "Board Version" and has a number that ends in -201. The -201 in that picture is the board rev or revision.

OK I have a question then. So you can only get custom themes from the answer file if you patch the files?

Yeah, I'm going to say right now that I am NOT going to be spending any money on these things. The only consideration would be to get power adapters for the other two. Also I am not going to change the OS until I corrupt this one.

Hmmm I had not heard of that manufacturer before. When talking about a workstation or a home PC, I agree with the drive failing thing. I only have experience using RAID in Servers. Well no I know there was some in VAIO but I didn't think it was a good idea for Sony to do that.

I'm pretty sure that an /apply will overwrite existing files if they are there. I may be wrong there, but you can easily test this as WIM is just like a big complicated ZIP file.

Welcome to Notebook cRaZyLaNd! This is the first of 3 installments. Let me start out by saying that this will be a community project with a couple stipulations: - I will take input into consideration - I cannot garauntee I will be very fast at implementing them - We are going to be dealing with some potentially severe hardware limitations. That being said, I will give a start to this little story. Recently I had been disappointed that I have not tried playing around with computers as much anymore, at least outside of work. So today I got home and decided I could play around with my old notebooks. I had two of them in the closet, a Compaq Armada M700 and a Compaq LTE 5000. I have a second LTE 5000 but it is missing a hard drive. I also have another Compaq Armada that has a busted display. I do believe that I also have an IBM Thinkpad, however I have no idea where that is. So I have these two notebooks but no power adapters. I go on the mad hunt for power adapters and it became a trip down computer memory lane! First I found my mud-covered GRiDCase 1520, which I keep just because it is what it is, although it never survived the flood a couple years ago. I then found another unfortunate soul, victim of the flood, which is a Toshiba Tecra. I was thinking maybe I could try turning it on... however it may either not do anything or at worst, start on fire or explode! Last stop, digging around in the basement, I did not find any power adapters. However I did manage to find 2 PCMCIA NIC dongles as well as a 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA NIC. After my hour or so of searching, I finally found a power adapter, but that is not all. I also found the notebook it belonged to! So now we are sitting at 3 notebooks to play around with, but currently only have AC adapter for one of them. And that is what this thread is about. If you want full specs, check the "my servers" link in my thread. Notebook cRaZyLaNd! Part 1: Windows 2000 Computer Name: IMAGETEST06 (Windows 2000 SP2) - Compaq Armada 1592DMT - Intel Pentium MMX - 64MB RAM - 3GB HDD (IBM-DYKA-23240) - 3Com 10/100 PCMCIA NIC With those specs in mind, I now open this thread up to anyone. What can I possibly do with this PC? How can I make it faster or more up to date? You be the judge!

What I've used before (when I tried to get DirectX to work in PE 2.1) is you put your app in the PE. Then you boot to the PE and open Dependency Walker. Then load up the app into Depends and it will tell you what is missing. However sometimes you can copy those DLLs and other files into the PE but they won't register properly or are used by a Service that is not detected by Depends. I ran into this problem trying to get BurnInTest to read from DirectX but nothing I did worked, although I did learn how to use Depends on WinPE.

Well you might have a SATA controller in there, but typically if you are using RAID it shouldn't show the SATA controller. You never know, since this Dell BIOS doesn't seem to give you standard RAID terminology in it either.

Yeah Scite already has the All Source option. When you save under this option, it makes extension AU3. If you choose the drop down to all files, it does not make an extension by default. I understand why it does this, since Scite is designed to be used for AutoIT. I only use it at work because I do not have extra licenses to use UltraEdit, which I use at home.

If you are only redeploying the image multiple times to get drivers, you should use PEIMG to inject the drivers into the Master image instead.

No bubble to burst! I'm still a 3Ware guy!

It depends on how you connect to your community. I have a website that was Transformers related and I integrated with that community. This was able to "Get the word out" in a way that plain old search results wouldn't do. I do not know how many hits I get because I haven't had stats on my website for a few years now. In fact, my current website is out of date and was only re-uploaded for the use of people in the Transformers community. I think my glory days are behind me. My best was I got 1 million hits in October 2005 and since then I wasn't really concerned about hits anymore.

I'm of the opinion right now that MalwareBytes is my current favorite. My old favorite used to be Giant Anti-Spyware, which used to be the #1. But then Giant got bought by Microsoft and eventually became Windows Defender and now MSE. I do not know if MSE's Anti-spyware component (yes it does this too) is better than MalwareBytes, but I haven't gotten infected with anything since installing MSE. It is possible that I'll never have to use MalwareBytes on my PC as long as MSE is installed but that's probably wishful thinking.

When HP created your computer, when they made the recovery partition, it writes data to a part of the hard drive. This is a "lock" or a bit of data that the recovery software (either the partition or the media) looks for before recovering. If that data is not present, it won't recover! Depending on how you formatted the drive, it may have removed this data! You may be able to find some way to put that data back onto your hard drive (look in the HP Recovery Partition cannot be found thread) by using MBR tools. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what that data is or where it goes. This process will require a bunch of learning, which you can see there is a lot of stuff in that thread. I can't do much for you except lead you in the right direction. EDIT: I forgot to add this. If the data on the hard drive is not there, it should not make the recovery media give you an error like that. It should just give you a simple message like "you are not allowed to run recovery on this machine" or something along those lines.

I had a question about MSPaint as well. There was a case last week where I needed to take a screenshot of the PE (in WinRE) after I modified it for support purposes. I was wondering if you hit the Print Screen key, and opened MSPaint in the PE (from the command prompt) if you could paste the screenshot in there and save the JPEG or BMP. I didn't try researching it and just took a picture with my cell phone.

As I noted, you don't need to (or probably shouldn't) skip user creation. After you install, you'll still need to have a local system account that COULD be logged into. But since you are using a domain, you set it up where your Unattend creates the local system account (using a name other than Administrator) and then you use the Domain account as the login. Look in the help file (or technet) for UserAccounts and AutoLogon containers of the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component.

There should be a setupact.log file in the Panther or Sysprep folder. Need to know exactly what the reason is. Also, is this Vista on its first install (ie one generalize used) and you are sysprep from Audit or User mode?

Deleting the RAID will lose the data. If you want to keep the data then you don't want that option. Because you plan on making Windows switch from RAID to IDE mode, you are in effect changing its mass storage controller. You are correct in thinking that the Reset Disks to Non-RAID will take the RAID off and not lose the data. However, once you boot into Windows, you will get a STOP Error 0x0000007B because the Mass Storage Controller driver will have changed. You did not mention if you can currently boot into the system. If you keep only 1 drive in the system, you can boot into Windows and it shouldn't be slow because it won't be rebuilding or reinitializing the array. Once you get in there, you can remove all SCSI, RAID or IDE Controllers from Device Manager. Then reboot into the RAID BIOS and set the disk to non-RAID. Alternatively, if you can't get into Windows atm, you can do a repair install which should save your settings but will use the correct Mass Storage Controller driver. I've done it this way, not from RAID to IDE, but from one controller to another. EDIT: you can get into the RAID BIOS by pressing CTRL+I at the RAID BIOS POST screen.

I wonder if this also works with Scite, which always wants to save files as AU3 extension. I use it as a multipurpose editor (for PHP and ASP also) so its annoying when I sometimes forget to change the type.

And I never understood why some people wouldn't (besides cost obviously). It's much faster and plenty reliable for that. I've been using RAID0 only for my system volume since 2001 (on an old Promise FastTrack100 TX4 & 4x WD 40GB striped) and never run into any problem. And if I'm unlucky enough to get a disk failure (like once every 10 years), then I'll just reinstall my OS & apps, no big deal (as long as your actual data is backed up, of course). The only method I am comfortable with is using RAID1 on a system volume, and RAID5 or RAID10 for data. Those are on work computers. I also would never use any software RAID controllers (like ICH, Promise, Adaptec) and can't really afford the 3Ware for home use. Although Intel's new LSI controllers seem to be on par.