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You'll also need to deal with HAL issues - booting an ACPI HAL on a Standard PC HAL system will cause it to just black screen before it does anything. Vista's images are HAL independent, I am not sure how it will deal with mass storage issues which is also key.

I've had no luck with swapping motherboards under XP - I've always had to do a repair (which works pretty well).

This is getting off topic but to be honest, I've got to disagree. We are a small group of testers, just because we are not aware of any bugs in existing drivers it doesn't mean they aren't there. You've got a point in that new drivers can contain issues but on the whole every newer driver I install is almost always without issue. They could improve performance for example. Without fail drivers do improve over time.

So does that mean we are now going to test every single driver (if the HWIDs remain the same) and then if it is "better" (some magic method that if we like it, then it goes) then it gets put in?

Just my 2p anyway.

I've found Vista's driver support to be actually quite poor.

I'd be interested in making (a 3rd party if necessary) driverpacks for Vista, if no-one else is!

I wouldn't call Parallels a big player, I believe VMWare has 80% or so of the virtualisation market.

Easy post to deal with then.

I wasn't aware of any sound DRM in XP actually, even with this patch.

Vista of course, is a whole different matter!

LittlBUGer's server is very nice, I normally use it for autopatcher's downloads if I don't use bit-torrent.

I'll chip some money in anyway!

You literally just dump them in the folder, when you run BartPE to create the ISO it will process everything it finds in those directories. I recall specifically a lot of trouble with Nvidia's NICs, so you may wish to leave them out. You can see it in the logged output from BartPE anyway.

BartPE doesn't support USB either, so you'll need a plugin for that. I've tried a bit to get it to work, but the ISO wouldn't generate so I didn't bother!

I'd recommend Win2003 SP1 as the source if possible also!

Also as Bâshrat the Sneaky said, this is a manual process only, it isn't supported by DriverPacks BASE itself.

I never thought of that.... it updated the Nvidia graphics driver but nowt else.

It all depends on if said companies can be bothered working with Microsoft to get their driver. I mean, today I've already seen ATi, Nvidia & Realtek all release newer Vista drivers.

This thread is helpful:

http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=1117

It would seem as if you are not the only person with this issue, however the cause is currently not known!