AFAIK it doesn't happen when the DRIVER is not available, but when the DEVICE is not available.

You could set up your IP settings AFTER setup completes. Would that be a problem?

A small update from my side:

I took the original Win XP Pro SP 2 cd, integrated (in winnt.sif) the drivers that i found for my hardware (agp card, lan, sound, scanner, printer and so on), everything is working like it should be.
After that I integrated the hotfixes from MEULC and also working normally.

So if I try to understand the problem is it right that the drivers for the network card are not available at the time that the IP settings and other network parameters are applied ??

So if I remove the settings you mentioned above, how can I set my IP settings for the card??

Thanks for the assistance so far,

Thijs Slotboom

Remove these entries and it will work:

[NetAdapters]
    Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]
    INFID=*

[NetClients]
    MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]
    MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[NetProtocols]
    MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]
    DNS=No
    UseDomainNameDevolution=No
    EnableLMHosts=Yes
    AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]
    SpecificTo=Adapter1
    DHCP=No
    IPAddress=192.168.123.2
    SubnetMask=255.255.255.0
    DefaultGateway=192.168.123.254
    DNSServerSearchOrder=192.168.123.254
    WINS=No
    NetBIOSOptions=0

This only results in a restarting system if the NIC for which these options are set is NOT available. Or at least that's what has been concluded from the same problem in the past.

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
    AutoActivate=Yes
    WaitForReboot=No
    UnattendSwitch=yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
   
[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=*
    EncryptedAdminPassword=No
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=110
    OemSkipWelcome=1
    ProfilesDir="D:\Documenten & Instellingen\"

[UserData]
    ProductKey=
    FullName="MR X"
    OrgName=""
    ComputerName=Athlon

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=32
    Xresolution=1024
    YResolution=768
    Vrefresh=70
    Autoconfirm=1

[TapiLocation]
    CountryCode=31
    Dialing=Tone
    AreaCode=038

[RegionalSettings]
    LanguageGroup=2,1
    SystemLocale=00000413
    UserLocale=00000413
    InputLocale=0413:00020409

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup="X-files"

[Proxy]
    Proxy_Enable=0
    Use_Same_Proxy=1

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=No

[NetAdapters]
    Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]
    INFID=*

[NetClients]
    MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]
    MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[NetProtocols]
    MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]
    DNS=No
    UseDomainNameDevolution=No
    EnableLMHosts=Yes
    AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]
    SpecificTo=Adapter1
    DHCP=No
    IPAddress=192.168.123.2
    SubnetMask=255.255.255.0
    DefaultGateway=192.168.123.254
    DNSServerSearchOrder=192.168.123.254
    WINS=No
    NetBIOSOptions=0

[IEPopupBlocker]
    BlockPopups=Yes
    Filterlevel=Medium
    ShowInformationBar=Yes

[WindowsFirewall]
    Profiles=WindowsFirewall.TurnOnFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOnFirewall]
    Mode=1

[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[url]Home_Page=usenetsearch.eweka.nl
    Search_Page=www.google.nl

[Components]
    msmsgs=off
    msnexplr=off
    freecell=off
    hearts=off
    minesweeper=off
    pinball=off
    solitaire=off
    spider=off
    zonegames=off

Sure will see what I can do, didn't have much time for this project. But alway looking for a solution. When I'm at home (hopefully tonight) I will have a look and post the file.

Last week was pretty busy keeping some turbines up and running and had not much time to eat and sleep.

Tonight the story will continue hopefully also unattended,......

NL President

OK, no problem

Just don't forget to eat and sleep at all!

Last week was pretty busy keeping some turbines up and running and had not much time to eat and sleep.

Tonight the story will continue hopefully also unattended,......

NL President

Method 1 Installation going well, restart everything working. Only Drivers for soundcard and videocard not installed. Settings from Unattended.sif not correctly applied (Automatic Updats, Screen resolution etc etc).

Method 2 Installation looks to be going allright, only when starting windows (1st time) a blue screen. Computer restarts automaticly, again blue screen and so on.
Starting in Safe mode with Network possible. Looking into the Log files (thanks Maybeme) it looks like something with Newdev.dll

Please let me know what log file you need (setupapi.txt ??)?

This part is coming from the last part of Setupapi.txt (in c:\windows), Oh h*ll Yeah it's in Dutch (have fun )

#-198 Opdrachtregel die is verwerkt: "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP.EXE"  -NEWSETUP
#-336 Kopiëren van bestand I:\i386\newdev.dl_ naar c:\windows\system32\newdev.dll via een tijdelijk bestand c:\windows\system32\SET9C5.tmp.
Geen handtekening aanwezig in het onderwerp.
#W187 De installatie is mislukt. Poging om de oorspronkelijke bestanden terug te zetten.

Hopefully this will give you some information about what might be going wrong.

Thanks again so far I'm going to make a original Windows XP with the MEULC updates (dutch) and look how that will go.

Thanks for the support,

NL President

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PCI devices
===========

PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_0035&SUBSYS_00351033&REV_41\3&61AAA01&0&58 : NEC PCI naar USB open host-controller
PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_0035&SUBSYS_00351033&REV_41\3&61AAA01&0&59 : NEC PCI naar USB open host-controller
PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_00E0&SUBSYS_35041462&REV_02\3&61AAA01&0&5A : NEC PCI naar USB Enhanced Host-controller (B1)
PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_00E7&SUBSYS_00CE1033&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&40 : NEC OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_5275&SUBSYS_1275105A&REV_01\3&61AAA01&0&60 : WinXP Promise MBFastTrak133 Lite (tm) Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0221&SUBSYS_21521682&REV_A1\4&618BA55&0&0008: Videocontroller (VGA-compatibel)
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8139&SUBSYS_813910EC&REV_10\3&61AAA01&0&38 : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0571&SUBSYS_05711106&REV_06\3&61AAA01&0&89 : VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3038&SUBSYS_12340925&REV_23\3&61AAA01&0&8A : VIA Rev 5 of later USB universele host-controller
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3038&SUBSYS_12340925&REV_23\3&61AAA01&0&8B : VIA Rev 5 of later USB universele host-controller
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3099&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&61AAA01&0&00 : VIA CPU to PCI Bridge
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3147&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&61AAA01&0&88 : PCI standard ISA bridge
PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_B099&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&61AAA01&0&08 : VIA CPU to AGP Controller
PCI\VEN_13F6&DEV_0111&SUBSYS_011113F6&REV_10\3&61AAA01&0&30 : Multimedia-audiocontroller
14 matching device(s) found.

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USB devices
===========

USB\ROOT_HUB\4&1AA2B167&0                                   : USB-hoofdhub
USB\ROOT_HUB\4&293B228E&0                                   : USB-hoofdhub
USB\ROOT_HUB\4&2D5C620C&0                                   : USB-hoofdhub
USB\ROOT_HUB\4&5A092C&0                                     : USB-hoofdhub
USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&232E7683&0                                 : USB-hoofdhub
USB\VID_046D&PID_0870\5&3A9956E5&0&1                        : Logitech QuickCam Express
USB\VID_04A9&PID_10A2\22D5B5                                : Ondersteuning voor USB-afdrukken
USB\VID_04A9&PID_2213\5&275E2383&0&1                        : CanoScan
USBPRINT\CANONIP4200\6&1554EE54&0&USB001                    : CanoniP4200
9 matching device(s) found.

The raid drivers from the driverpacks looks not compattible with my raid controller (onboard, Promise Fasttrak133 'lite'). With my own raid drivers supplied with the mainboard (MSI 6380 Ultra ARU) are working correctly.

I have the same RAID controller and it seems to work fine with the DP mass storage.

Though, I'm not sure whether I still had the manually added drivers from the manufacturer's HP included when I installed, or not.
I do remember that the driver version appeared to be newer in Windows.

In any case, that might do the trick, if you want to keep the DP MS included.
Just manually (or use nLite) add those specific drivers to your CD and then apply all the DriverPacks.

Or you could turn off the automatic restart

The raid drivers from the driverpacks looks not compattible with my raid controller (onboard, Promise Fasttrak133 'lite'). With my own raid drivers supplied with the mainboard (MSI 6380 Ultra ARU) are working correctly.

Anyway can you give me a hint how to freeze (at least try) the screen when a BS appears, because when it was shown to me it was for a very very short time, just enough to see that it's blue can not even read the first word.

Thanks

Somebody got any ideas?

Yes, post the contents of your BSs!

The whole point of a BS (as opposed to automatic system restart) is to tell you what went wrong or caused an error.
Thefore, it outputs a specific error message that helps you trace the problem back to the faulty component/driver/software.

It's ususally a smart idea to post the BS message here if you want to receive any help