augleovirgo Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Hi,I have an ASUS EN7900GTX2DHTV512 GeForce7900GTX 512 MB PCI-E DDR3 W/HDTV & VIVO graphic card. I am trying to slipstream this but I seem can’t find right kind of files. I did check out on BTS graphic pack but the latest version is up to 7800GTX. I opened the folder of 7800 GTX and it has 81 files. I tried to “strip” out the files out from my graphic card cd but I could not find anything. I checked out at NVIDIA website and only able to find the latest version up to 7800 GTX including the Forceware driver. I went to Asus download website and found the driver called ASUS VGA card display driver version 84.21 for Windows 2000/XP but I am not sure how to strip them properly. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated!Hope to find a solution.Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 here is a nice tool that can extract the driver u need from the vga cd. http://msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35869then u can integrate the driver via nlite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 sometimes even winrar does the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blub Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 @augleovirgo: I am not sure I understand your question fully. I don't have a 7900 series nVidia myself (seem like a pretty good card though ). Accordinging to nVidia (and Asus it seems given your post) the Forceware 84.21 is compatible with your card. These drivers you can download from http://www.nvidia.com. The file is an .exe, but you can extract it using 7zip or Winrar or presumably any archiver (maybe). This way you can extract the drivers you need (the .inf files contains the file names). I didn't check the BTS pack, but would expect it to be up to date with 84.21 as well?? Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augleovirgo Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 Thanks so much! I will try it sometime this week and will let you know how it goes.Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZeus Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Anyone still watching this thread???I have 7900GT's and want to slipstream my installation. I'm a newbie at this so maybe my question is pretty basic....I extracted the files from the 84.21 NVidia Driver and have reviewed the files in the .inf file. But I've run into a snag.A lot of the file extensions in the extracted data end with an 'underscore'. (dl_, sy_). I can reasonably guess that those are .dll and .sys.However, do I need to edit these file extensions to ".dll" and ".sys" before adding them to the driverpack in order to make them function correctly?Also, the file contains 2 .inf files which seem to reference the same material. I assume I should include both .inf files in the created driverpack. Is this correct?Big thanks to anyone that can help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 If you edit the file extensions then the files will still be compressed.You need to decompress them with the EXTRACT command at a command prompt, or use 7-Zip or WinRAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZeus Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Thanks 5eraph, but...maybe I wasn't clear.I already extracted to files using 7Zip. Its just that when I'm reviewing the files to throw out the ones i don't need, before recompression, i've run into the file extension names with the 'underscore'. I suspect that you are right though, in that they probably should not be edited.Can you confirm that i only need the files referenced in the .inf file? Any suspicions on the second .inf file?Forgive my ignorance but i haven't done a slipstream before but really want to try it this time - good technical challenge and all that.Many thanks for your reply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woelfman10 Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I think 5eraph was getting at the files with the underscores are still compressed, because the original .exe is like zipping together a bunch of zip files.I'm not sure that you need uncompress it further though. I don't slipstream graphics drivers because there's always a new one next time I reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZeus Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Thank you, Woelfman10.That's an excellent point about the graphics drivers. I may just leave them out of the slipstream.ps - in Manitoba, everyone just stare at the snow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woelfman10 Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 you're welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 how i slipstream video driver:first i download the last one then uncompressuse this tool ( http://msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35869 ) to compress it and separate the drivers acording to how many infs are in the uncompressed driver folder add the needed driver with nlite to my unattended cd.that is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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