Results from Slipstreamed installs very poor..

[cakeman]

Hi all.. any sensible person would've just dug one of his spare floppy drives out of the closet and had this done last night.. but Im not sensible.. and I won't be beaten (at the moment..) by this problem Im having..

I have an older Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo with a SiI 3112 SATA chipset.. and only have SATA harddrives in the unit.. 9-12 months ago, I slipstreamed my SATA drivers onto my XP Pro Corp CD and installed it a-ok... then a couple months back the old 40gb drive died.. so I bought a new 640gb drive the other day and tried to resintall my OS.. only I seem to have lost the slipstreamed CD..

No big deal, re-downloaded the drivers, downloaded the newest copy of nLite and re-did my work.. now from a total of 3 different Store bought XP CD's and 1 from a friend.. and each time, the same bloody thing happens..

The install progresses normally.. and then after the final reboot, when windows loads and I login .. theres more or less nothing.. The start menu is populated with -some- items.. but much is missing.. theres no IE, the desktop is blank, just a blue background.. if I try and install some drivers I'll get an error box (something about RPC Server not communicating? but the service appears to be up n running)..

I have tried XP Pro SP2 discs x2 an XP Pro SP1 disc and lastly an XP Pro Corp SP0 disc that I integrated SP2 onto (via the sp2.exe /integrate command) and then used nLite to slipstream my driver onto it..

How Im using nLite: I run it, select the source CD, select where to save it, skip past the Previous Runs screen, select Drivers and Bootable, next, Insert Single Driver, point to the directory containing my SiI drivers, select the driver (it's set to Textmode) then next.. then I direct burn to a CD..

What the heck am I doing wrong?? Any tips appreciated..

thanks,

cakes..

[cakeman]

eh, forget it, I wanted my system back.. i dug around, found a floppy, dug for another 1.5 hours and found a cable and f6'd myself into success.

still.. anyone have a suggestion why nLite didnt work? It looks like a great utility that, if I could make it work, Id like to use again..

thanks..

cakes..

[newsposter]

without posting your nlite .ini file you have zero chance of anyone being able to help you.......

Edited August 31, 2008 by newsposter

[TranceEnergy]

Newsposter : Agreed.

cakeman: I dont have any cookies for my coffee =(

If at first you don't succeed, try again, and again, and again and again and again and again, then realize you really need coffee/coke/drugs/a smoke/2 goto work, then you try again, and again and again and again.

Sounds like you are afraid of nlite, don't be, it's really a very caring program it will try it's best to protect you.

Also you are not using raid drivers for raid usage it seems like to me. Unless drives run off connected to raid controller physically, and raid mode is enabled, it might not be those drivers you need anyway.

That would depend on your mobo, there's like 4258 different raid solutions, which all may or may not actually use raid. Tho they name it raid anyway.

Raid and storage systems are a huge subject on doing it unattended, and there is A LOT of information on that subject here on this forum and many other places.

[cakeman]

newsposter - thanks, didn't see a 'do this if asking for help' sticky/faq etc.. so wasn't sure what was required.. sample Ini attached.

Tranceenergy - As stated in my original post.. I did try again and again and again and again.. (and once or twice more on top of that) .. until I got tired of burning discs that resulted in bad installs.. I'm not scared of screwing something up with nLite.. I was just sick n tired of it not working so thought someone here might have a clue..

.. and you're correct.. Im not RAID drivers for RAID storage.. SATA support on my mobo is non-native, so to do a simple, basic, windows install of any sort to a primary SATA drive, requires pre-loading those drivers .. yes it's a raid system as well.. but in this instance, Im not using RAID

further, using F6 with that exact same driver on a floppy (and no other changes to system) resulted in a successful install.. so more, it was something I was doing with nLite, or something nLite is doing to me, that was resulting in the screwed installs..

hopefully someone sees something in the INI file that points to my error.. there sure isn't much there..

thanks,

cakes..

nlite.ini

Edited September 1, 2008 by cakeman

[TranceEnergy]

How does your setuperr.log from your windir look like? Big? It should be 0 kb for perfect install.

Check event viewer from administrative tools. Stuff like that.

Also download newer version of nlite, was released some hours ago.