Greetings all,

In the past I had struggeld to silently install display drivers for Nvidia GeForce 6150 card. Long story short, I managed to find a way around this, and hope this helps someone out there.

Basically, a box kept popping up when trying to do it silently, complaining that the driver to be installed was not digitally signed, even though I had told XP to ignore non-digital signed drivers.

1. Went to http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.85.html and downloaded the 81.85 drivers that was WHQL certified.

2. Extracted the resulting 81.85_forceware_winxp2k_international_whql.exe into separate folder on C drive.

3. Read alot about InstallShield stuff and the most useful was http://vista.intersystems.com/csp/docbook/..._Silent_Install

4. On a new XP box that didnt have the driver installed, via DOS, did setup.exe -r from the folder containing the downloaded Nvidia drivers.

5. After reboot, copied setup.iss from Windows directory onto another clean pc with the same Nvidia graphics card.

6. Ran Setup.exe -s -f1"C:\P\setup.iss", where C:\P\ was the folder containing the downloaded Nvidia drivers.

7. After reboot, drivers were installed and card picked up correctly in Device Manager.

Created this batch file to do this silently

@ECHO OFF

ECHO Installing Nvida Geforce6150 ...

START /WAIT C:\P\18\Setup.exe -s -f1"C:\P\18\setup.iss"

shutdown -r -t 60 -c "Forcing reboot after Nvidia install"

EXIT

HOWEVER....

for some reason the resolution does not change to my desired setting of 1024x768x32@70 Hz. I do suspect its got something to do with the LCD screen installed.

I will return when I find a solution.

HOWEVER....

for some reason the resolution does not change to my desired setting of 1024x768x32@70 Hz. I do suspect its got something to do with the LCD screen installed.

I will return when I find a solution.

To save you some time on this - LCD screens work on @60 Hz and only very very rarely you can change this value to something little bigger. Only CRT monitors can change Hz to bigger values.

btw, You can just edit existing setup.iss to change BootOption to 0 , and run direclty setup -s. I use that method for long time ago without problems.