imwaiting Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Hi,Trying to make sure my first unattended setup has a shot at going smoothly.After upgrading the BIOS, I've downloaded the XP drivers for everything I could find on the old Gateway system-video adapter, sound card, Chipset, modem original hard drive, ...plus XP drivers for other things added to the system...Intel 100/Pro+ network card, new DVD burner, new hard drivemost of these come in the form of a setup program for after the fact, how can I identify the key files needed, probably inf files, and be sure that A) the unattended install finds them in i386/$OEM$/$$/DriversB) that the setting are correctWhat about this hardware abstraction layer (HAL)? that I see in set up and inf files on my corporate laptop? Is this something I need to try and create? With a utility I hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CptMurphy Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 This file is created during OS installation. It's updated whenever you install new hardware. It's essentially a database of all the hardware that's on your system, and all the information about it; IRQs, DMA, MEM, etc. Don't worry, it's created during install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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