RichM Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 My drivers are all installing fine in unattended XP install, out of the $OEM$\$1\Drivers directory. Video, audio, system, NIC, etc. Identical Dell OptiPlex GX280s. But one has a dell 17" flat panel monitor, and one has a 15". no drivers listed on Dell site... So during install with the 15", setup suddenly asks if I want to connect to the Internet to search for drivers for the monitor. clicking no, install automatically, it comes to Finish, then setup continues without a hitch. Display seems fine when all is done, and no special monitor drivers have been loaded. But it made setup STOP in the middle so it could ask me to provide nothing meaningful. So 1) is there a log I'm missing somewhere as to where PnP didn't find the drivers it wanted (and what that specifically was)? or 2) is there a way to tell setup that if it doesn't find a particular driver then tough luck, no it MAY NOT stop and ask, it must finish the install like a good setup program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 It's something like 'DynamicUpdate=0' if I remember well... Please check the deploy.chm to find the correct entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 I thought you hit the nail on the head, I found the syntax and charged over to my winnt.sif and... Doh! it's already in there. ****. Guess that wasn't it. Here's an excerpt from my winnt.sif file. ITMT I'm gonna have a surf for "winnt.sif too long", seems like I saw something on that, maybe something's not getting processed? mine's kinda long, but not terribly.....[unattended]Unattendmode = FullUnattendedOemPreinstall = YesTargetPath = \WINDOWSFilesystem = ConvertNTFSOEMSkipEula = YesUnattendSwitch = YesDriverSigningPolicy=IgnoreDisableDynamicUpdates=YesNtUpgrade = NoHibernation = 0CrashDumpSetting = 0Repartition = YesOemPnpDriversPath=Drivers\00_sys;Drivers\net;Drivers\vid;Drivers\AudDisableDynamicUpdatesValue: Yes | NoDefault: YesInstructs Setup not to connect to the Windows Update site to download any available Windows Setup updates or necessary drivers that were not included on the Windows CD-ROM.DisableDynamicUpdates is equivalent to the command:winnt32 /unattend /disabledynamicupdatesDynamic updates are disabled by default so corporate administrators can more easily standardize on a known set of Windows system components.Yes Instructs Setup not to connect to the Windows Update site. No Instructs Setup to connect to the Windows Update site to download any available Windows XP Setup updates. Setup also downloads any necessary drivers that were not included on the Windows XP CD-ROM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 (edited) Please just remove that entry DisableDynamicUpdates=Yesand try again. I don't have it and it has never searched for drivers...EDIT: what is that image in your signature? Edited February 17, 2005 by Bâshrat the Sneaky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 You can try downloading the driver for your monitor here:ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/monitors/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Microsoft MVP for Windows Server - Directory Services Microsoft MVP Info Pagethanks, I'll get rid of that line. like I said, though, the wierd thing is out of 5 different setups I'm testing on, it only seems to do it with this monitor. I'll repost with results...thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 RyanVM THANKS! guess Dell's search on their support website is about useless then, it was no help on drivers for monitors... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Zugec Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Hmmm, I dont agree - I was trying to find driver for external USB floppy today (btw no luck, I needed to download similar driver from vendor) and I noticed after providing ServiceTag (And selecting all downloads) there was monitor section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 RyanVM THANKS! guess Dell's search on their support website is about useless then, it was no help on drivers for monitors...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yeah, it is. I generally just put it a system that's likely to have whatever hardware piece as an option on it when I'm looking for drivers. I've got a 2001FP personally, so I feel your pain Not to mention a Truemobile 1300 in my laptop thought I bought seperate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Hmmm, I dont agree - I was trying to find driver for external USB floppy today (btw no luck, I needed to download similar driver from vendor) and I noticed after providing ServiceTag (And selecting all downloads) there was monitor section<{POST_SNAPBACK}>well... I'm not exactly sure what system the monitor came from... I have 4 different types of Dell Optiplexes at my desk, and none of the monitors actually came with any of the 4 that I have here. (plus I use MS VPC because sometimes waiting to burn a CD is too long a wait )so I just tried searching for monitor drivers, for 151fp, looking for a monitor device group, etc... gave up after 30 minutes -- may not sound long but I have gotten up to speed from ground zero with a working AIO DVD after 3 days, including cdshell customized, BartPE customized, multiple encrypted product keys, etc, etc usually the Dell site is good, and I only buy Dells if I can help it.Ah an update.... Found New Hardware Wizard: used winnt.sif from floppy, minus the DisableDynamicUpdates = Yes switch...Told it I would choose a driver for this device, it failed, said there "was a problem installing this hardware:6R644387L30YDell E151FPpAn error occured during the installation of this deviceThere is no driver selected for the device information set or element"I haven't added the drivers that Ryan linked to, I will in a minute (+rebuild ISO + reburn DVD-RW + re-run setup from DVD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 , at least you're using rewritables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Yep... DVD-RW x4 is good... x12 is betterI just finished with the added drivers and it worked fine, no stopping. so either it was the drivers, or it was adding the space on either side of the =, as in:DisableDynamicUpdates = Yesnot DisableDynamicUpdates=Yesdoes the space matter?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 No, space doesn't matter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 Yes I see that, it isn't taking my TCP/IP settings and there were no spaces there, I changed to spaces and it still isn't taking them. So many things to do, so little time I'd bet there's already info on TCP/IP though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 Ok this is getting annoying.... all my drivers are loading, but that pesky screen keeps coming up! There was another post, another thread, that someone recommended adding:[Display]BitsPerPel = 32XResolution = 1024YResolution = 768VRefresh = 60AutoConfirm = 1I did this, no change. (I had everything but VRefresh and AutoConfim already in there)It's the stupid Plug and Play Monitor being detected. Note that setup doesn't actually stop, it continues and right before the screen blanks a few times (installing the OEM video drivers I assume) the hardware detection dialog goes away. I included the monitor drivers in the drivers\00_sys directory, but it doesn't install them. After setup is through, I can go in and update the monitor drivers manually, using the files in the drivers\00_sys directory, and then it installs them fine. Nothing seems to change, but how do I make the stupid detection box not come up?!?!?!DisableDynamicUpdates does not do it, by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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