Watch That SVCPACK.INF File

[RogueSpear]

Over the past month or so my Unattended project has been coming along rather well, especially since I have been borrowing from my two years experience of using RIS. Progress has been a little slower than expected, but steady enough.

Well all of a sudden last night, like a kick in the teeth, it all stopped working. To be honest, I am frequently guilty of trying out too many new things at once rather than one at a time. After spending around 10 hours a day for the last month almost exclusively on this, who could blame me.

First, I got the dreaded framedyn.dll error, and I'm still not sure why I did. Gradually, I kept stepping back, removing tweaks and hacks, one by one, trying to figure out where I went so wrong. Eventually, I figured out that most of the bad things going on had to do with the fact that my svcpack.inf was not being processed. It took me a while to figure this out because I do very little with svcpack.inf. All of Ryan's upgrade pack was installing, WMP10 was installing, but my self-extracting file the populates some miscellaeous files was not running.

Through further investigation, I noticed that all of the files from Ryan's pack were being logged as unsigned; as were the files from WMP10. Finally that was what told me svcpack.inf was not being processed.

:angrym: Here is the frustrating part: Somewhere, somehow, some process removed the following lines from my svcpack.inf

BuildNumber=2600
MinorVersion=1
MajorVersion=5

Luckily I remembered seeing somewhere in these boards that you need those three little lines. I still have no idea how after a month of experimenting with nLite, Ryan's Upgrade Pack, and BTS's Driver Packs, this suddenly out of nowhere cropped up. I sincerely doubt it was any of those three packages. Moral of the story is this: I've seen a lot of posts around MSFN regarding svcpack.inf not processing. Check that file often! This is one day of my life I'll never get back.