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Hacked internally, yes, but the same would be true if there was a virus or other malicious program installed on the computer.

Wow, we have some old-timer here , I bought one in 1997 and loved it with Hexen .I go with ATI too these days, just for their better Vista drivers a while ago. I like my 2600XT as it does the job well without giving me some DLL error from time to time. ah Hexen... aka Heretic II or do I have that backwards... You try nowadays to spend $200 on a 6MB video card... But I bought it to play GL Quake, I didn't play Hexen on the PC only the Nintendo 64. I liked Hexen II tho.

I'm pretty sure you are supposed to use a relative path to the drivers from the location of sysprep.exe. So ..\..\..\nt\drivers\network\winVista presuming sysprep is located in c:\windows\system32\sysprep. Also you are already using drivers on teh C drive, I imagine you are copying them there during install? How does this differ than putting them in the image? Have you compared deployment time with this method vs injecting them in the image?

I agree, check your NIC drivers after Windows is done. When we run sysprep, it removes the NIC drivers sometimes. Our MS rep says sysprep is designed to do that and is malfunctioning if it allows the drivers to remain installed for some reason.

sorry i dont think anybody read that because i put an accidental quote after it. I read it. I wouldn't trust any Windows patches not acquired from Microsoft.com. Why did you opt to get it from a third party website?

In order to set this up on your own website you need the favicon.ico in your public_html root. And also add the appropriate code to your .htaccess file.

I chose ATI but that isn't my favorite. I started being a dedicated 3dfx guy, as my first 4 video cards were 3dfx. They were the Voodoo Rush, Voodoo 2, Voodoo 3, and the Voodoo 5500. There was a Riva TNT2 in that timeline someplace tho... By default I ended up getting an nVidia card (PNY GeForce 3 Ti200) which I used until just recently. I bought an ATI card recently because the price was good, had a decent amount of RAM and worked in a 4x AGP slot. I haven't been disappointed with it at all, so I have switched to ATI for now.

I just tried the facebook chat. Is is possible to have more than one person in a "room" with that? I tried to figure it out but I couldn't. I wish you could change what sound it makes when you get a message also. It definately isn't an IM replacement. I would say that only 2% of my buddy list is on Facebook, if that, and plus you have to be actively on the site in order for it to work. And lastly, facebook chat makes the browser lag down when you receive a message.

Well it doesn't hurt to try. To be safe, don't activate Windows right away. We didn't activate our 2008 server until day 27 because we wanted to make sure it would do everything we wanted it to.

There should be an error message too. Did you check that debug log? Everywhere else online I find a similar message there is an actual error given. Are you able to resolve DNS in the command prompt or connect to a UNC path?

what is the name of the function? i cant seem to find it..i only have 14 items on my welcome center.. (view computer details,transfer file and settings,add new users,windows anytime upgrade,connect to the internet,what's new in windows vista,personalize windows,register windows online,windows media center,windows basics,ease of access center,back up and restore center,windows vista demos,control panel) It might be Backup and Restore Center....? http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...ocname=bph08097 http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/fastFaq...cname=c00809678

Yesterday we have gotten in an order of 3 machines that the customer wants to have XP Pro SP2 loaded onto them. We normally use a CD and a Distribution Share to install XP. These machines do not have CD Drives, or CD Drive support, and will not detect a USB CD Drive. While we may still have the option of installing XP via a USB Key, there is still another option which would be more beneficial to us in the future. We are also battling with the fact that we cannot reference the winbom.ini from the WinPE 2.0 to do an unattended install of XP from PXE similar to how we can do that with Vista. If anyone has any info on this instead, it may help. First let me tell you what I did. I started the install of XP on ANOTHER computer (my test computer). It formats the drive, downloads the CFGSET and then copies the Source files to the drive. The computer reboots and enters textmode. After that is finished, I turned the computer off. I then hooked it up to my test WDS and uploaded the drive image. I drop the image to the target machine, and reboot, and Setup starts and fails at the x7b error meaning the MassStorage driver is wrong. I have mounted the WIM but do not know how to put more drivers into it. Any ideas?

First of all, take a look at this guide: http://www.msfn.org/board/GUIDE-Creating-W...-X-t101383.html When you press F12, there is a virtual network driver loaded by your computer's BIOS that enables TCP/IP and other things, and knows how to boot to the network. Presuming your PXE Server is set up properly, you should be able to boot into the PE or whatever else you are selecting. For example, if you are using Image Manager, you should get a prompt for which install images to apply. If you are booting into the PE (like I do), then the PE will attempt to load the NIC driver from its own driver store when you run WPEUtil InitializeNetwork. If your NIC driver isn't found, it won't give you an error, but if you run IPCONFIG you won't see any information. You can install more drivers into the PE with the PEIMG command on the server using the PE Tools Command Prompt. Make sure you are using either Vista 32bit or Vista 64bit drivers depending on which PE you are using. I also have a server guide here to make sure your settings are correct. My config may be slightly different but you will get the idea hopefully. http://www.msfn.org/board/A-Step-by-Step-g...-f-t113927.html

That is, if you want to keep things as cheap as possible. Am I wrong in thinking that Wireless-N (or Pre-N) hardware operates at a frequency not affected by these household devices? I remember being at a Cisco seminar and the rep was speaking about how they had a wireless technology that was available and operated outside the range that affects 802.11b. How many ports is up to you. If you are running wires through walls, you are going to want to plan ahead for future expansion. But if you aren't being so creative then you can get anything you want. So let's say you have 6 computers, you'd probably want a 8 port switch. They typically come in standard sizes, like 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, etc. But its not just your computers. You are going to run a setup like this: Cable/DSL Modem -> router -> switch The router can handle your wireless machines, like notebooks or whatever else. So all your hardlines connect into the switch, and you need to do a +1 because one cable will go to the router too. So an 8 port switch would work fine with 6 wired computers + a switch. As far as the brand goes, try to stick to a popular brand (they have better support and warranties) such as Linksys, 3Com or Netgear. You'll want a 10/100 speed (sometimes called auto-sensing) switch because the ports in the modem won't be higher than 100, and you probably aren't getting internet service anywhere near 10. It doesn't matter if you have newer computers with a gigabit NIC in them, unless you are going to be doing heavy file transfers a lot. Also, make sure you are looking at a switch and NOT a hub. They are different, and they will be labelled as such on the box, especially if you get one of the brands I listed above. So here's a summary 10/100 Switch, with at least 2 more ports than you are going to need, and made by Linksys, 3Com or Netgear.

I can't find specs on these notebooks, probably because they are old. You need to find out what NICs are actually in them first. Do they have Windows on them already? If so you can get this info out of the device manager. Look at the Hardware ID on the Details tab of the NIC properties. Then post the VEN, DEV and SUBSYS numbers. Alternatively, you can run PCISCAN from DOS to get the hardware IDs for the NICs. After getting this information, you can do a string search against the LAN Driverpacks. Although Driverpacks is xp32 not vista64, after finding which XP driver it uses, you might be able to find a Vista driver to use with your PE. http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/DriverPack.php?pag=l Website that has PCI SCAN

Are you trying to just add the computer to the domain or have the 2k3 server be a backup domain controller?

The recovery CD it makes is not a Windows install disc. It only makes a bootable DVD that contains a backup of the recovery partition. Your notebook should have some tools you can get to from the start menu, look in the HP folder or maybe its on that Welcome screen that they use. That tool should make the DVD for you.

If you have a Type-II PC Card slot (PCMCIA) you might be able to find one of those hard disk controllers to go in there. I know Adaptec used to make one, since it used to come with the external Iomega drives... Zip or Jaz, I forget.

Does Trillian support Live yet?

I only know of trialware for such purposes. And those are Total Video Converter and any graphics program capable of editing animated gifs like Fireworks, ImageReady, PSP or whatever.

You can't just copy those files out of there. I'm pretty sure files in Recycler are just shortcuts and not actual files. They need to be restored on the original computer. The problem is that they are going to be pointing to data on the hard-drive that doesn't exist now that you are using a different hard drive.

Ha! I'd like to see a Pentium 4 with 3DNow!!

I wrote a similar guide here: http://www.msfn.org/board/A-Step-by-Step-g...-f-t113927.html The process for Server 2008 is very similar to 2003, but some things are just in different places.

and make sure you use /unmount commit when you are done. If you don't use the commit, it won't save your changes.

Round 3 - Ray Charles OK I am starting to get annoyed/confused. Last time I tried to use an X-Fi PCI card in a Vista image (Business) it blew up and I had to recreate the image no less than 8 times. This time everything is working.... It might be because I am using an MSI board now instead of an Intel one, but all the other hardware/drivers are the same. So anyways, here are the results of installing the MSI Chipset INF, onboard sound and Video card drivers. Video card drivers are nVidia 175.19. All three of these situations passed: Test 6 Software: Creative SoundBlaster X-FI PCI driver package XFXA_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0079 Sysprep method: sysprep -audit -restart errors: none result: PASS Test 7 Software: Creative SoundBlaster X-FI PCI driver package XFXA_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0079 Sysprep method: sysprep -audit -restart -generalize errors: none result: PASS This test (7) had the following other results: - X-Fi driver was blown away but sound worked at startup. Windows prompted for software and it installed automatically. - video artifacts (incorrect colors, inverted gradients) appeared on the dock, the clock and the clock's transparency alpha layer was visible. This corrected after a reboot. - The Realtek HD Audio driver was removed. Test 8 Software: Creative SoundBlaster X-FI PCI driver package XFXA_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0079 Sysprep method: sysprep -oobe -restart errors: none result: PASS Windows Defender blocked Nero Startup (setupx.exe) which is a program that prompts the user to complete the registration. I used a silent install of Nero 8 in the image so we do not have to type in the serial number. The method used is similar to installing the demo silently, but this is the full version instead. This is interesting because the OOBE method did not block the Nero Startup app without the video and motherboard drivers installed. My next test will be the same as this round, but to do the complete job. This means installing the two other sound cards, and verify if they work simultaneously. I will do a generalize but I might have to reinstall some stuff, like the onboard audio. I was really hoping for more errors here, but it is beginning to look like there are certain motherboards where its software conflicts with the Sound Blaster software. This is good to know, at least, but this also means we will have to re-evaluate the X-Fi card with all of our motherboards with Vista...