Problem with nvidia drivers and desktop icons

[ashnofear]

I've created a fully unattended XP Setup for my Inspiron 1520 laptop. I've slipstreamed drivers for Chipset, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, Audio, Video, SATA, Memory card into the setup.

Everything goes on smooth except these two problems :

1. All other drivers except my nvidia driver is installed properly. After the installation there is a Yellow exclamation near the device though it has selected the correct model of my Graphics card (8600M GT). I choose update driver and give the extracted driver path on the system and it doesnt update. But if I remove the driver, restart and again give the same driver path it installs the driver fine. Any idea abt this ? Am I missing something. - ISSUE RESOLVED

My unattended section contains these two lines :

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

2. Icons for My Computer, My Documents, etc. are missing. I go to Display Properties and give change icon to choose the correct icon - then only it works..... BTW this happens only when trying on my actual laptop and not in VMWare ? So is it related to installing any of the drivers ?

I would be glad to receive help on these two items....

Edited August 13, 2008 by ashnofear

[Ascii2]

Specify which nVidia drivers and what versions of the nVidia drivers are yeilding problems.

Also state the version of the nVidia installer used.

[ashnofear]

I'll check that after going home and let you know....

[ashnofear]

The nvidia Drivers version I'm using is 169.04 which is not WHQL certified.

The version as from nv4_disp.inf file is 7.15.11.6904

The installer version is 9.1.0.429

And any idea about my other query about the Desktop icons ?

[Ascii2]

The nvidia Drivers version I'm using is 169.04 which is not WHQL certified.

The version as from nv4_disp.inf file is 7.15.11.6904

The installer version is 9.1.0.429

And any idea about my other query about the Desktop icons ?

In the initial post to this thread you specified a problem with an nVidia driver, but did not specify what kin of driver that was giving a problem (now it is know to be display). nVidia has more than display drivers (Chipset, Ethernet, Audio, SATA, etc.). It seems that all nVidia drivers, exluding some legacy products, may be installed using a version of the nVidia installer. Version

The installer version I wanted you to provide was for the nVidia installer, not the Display driver's InstallShield version (which in this case does not).

After rereading the initial post to this thread it appears that nVidia Display driver is not installed. You may try running the installation setup and continue though the wizard until the end. The drivers should then be installed. If you want to try an unattended method for the driver installation, you may try using a method described:

http://www.msfn.org/board/nVIDIA-Driver-In...tion-t7557.html

There was another thread I thought could be important to direct you to, but I cannot find it.

[ashnofear]

Ok I got problem 1 resolved. There were three files from I386 folder of WINXP setup (nv4_disp.dll, nv4_disp.inf, nv4_mini.sys) which gets overwritten over the installed drivers. I found out by seeing the Driver version for these files after the installation from Device Manager. Only for these files the version was 56.73 or something..... So I had to remove these files from being copied in 3 files: TXTSETUP.SIF, DOSNET.INF and DRVINDEX.INF

So could someone suggest a solution for my second problem ?

[Ascii2]

Ok I got problem 1 resolved. There were three files from I386 folder of WINXP setup (nv4_disp.dll, nv4_disp.inf, nv4_mini.sys) which gets overwritten over the installed drivers. I found out by seeing the Driver version for these files after the installation from Device Manager. Only for these files the version was 56.73 or something..... So I had to remove these files from being copied in 3 files: TXTSETUP.SIF, DOSNET.INF and DRVINDEX.INF

So could someone suggest a solution for my second problem ?

At [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon], what value is set for "Userinit" string value?

You can try changing icon size, then changing size back to original to see if problem is corrected.

Edited August 18, 2008 by Ascii2

[Ascii2]

For 2.:

Perhaps something is wrong with the Explorer's icon cache.

On Windows 2000 (perhaps XP too), a file "ShellIconCache" is located at %SystemRoot%. Perhaps deleting the file (make a copy first) may fix the problem.