Driver problems when testing iso.

[Cokeman73]

I added drivers every way I have found. Tried slipstreaming, adding with nlite, etc...every time I test an iso in either microsofts virtual machine or in vmware. I get the same results. The drivers it installs are not for my hardware. Heres a list of some of the issues.

Graphics driver won't install (ati AIW 9600xt)

IDE Controller: installs as Intel bus master(i have an amd nforce 3 board)

Sound: shows as creative ( i have onboard realtek sound)

Network Adapter: Shows as AMD PCFamily network

Like I said this is in every iso I tested (close to 10) I have tried every way I have found on the net. the latest try added every driver pack from drivers.net to make sure I had the correct drivers. So is this normal in a virtual machine? Or is something not figured correctly?

I only need a few drivers for the following. Graphics, sound, main baord devices such as lan, ide controller.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[ajua]

So is this normal in a virtual machine?

you are right. try it in a real installation with a computer that has that particular hardware.

[Cokeman73]

Thanks I tried installing it & the only driver that installed was my sound card. It installed a generic graphics driver from microsoft. SO I'll need to see whats causing it.

[Arie]

To clear things up, none of your drivers will properly work in a virtual environment. The virtual environment uses virtual hardware, which is not a virtual copy of your own hardware. The drivers which you will need for your virtual environment are the ones included with the specific virtual software. If you want to test the drivers for your own hardware, you cannot use a virtual environment, you can only test it on real hardware.

[Cokeman73]

I burned the iso installed windows on a second partition & the sound card is the only driver that installed. The rest were generic type drivers from microsoft. except for lan, & motherboard components that didn't install anything. Not sure whats going on. The drivers I need are for an Asus k8n motherboard, Ati AIW Radeon 9600xt, & the onboard sound.

[Mordac85]

Were you able to manually install the drivers afterwards? This would eliminate the hardware as a source of the problem and leave the install routine.