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I'm sure that if their was a good way, you would have thought of a way.  When will we be able to call you Doctor?

NTx86.6.2 or NTx64.6.2 AFIK  & the 'ARM' versions.  BUILD may help provide concrete answers.

I think MS is under the gun to get this finished ASAP, Apple's hurting the rest of the consumer market.  An 'ARMy' of well-educated Chinese programmers will likely surprise (maybe shock) everyone.

HP's webOS tablets are being discontinued, & dropped in price to $99.00 CDN!!!

"Windows 8 - I'd chew my 'ARM' off rather than admit it was MY idea!"  Windows 8 is just a code-name, for now BTW.

MS has hinted that a pre-release developer build may be made available to the public.  http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-hint … s-8-build/

I understand that most are still on holidays, yet hopefully some decisions can be made, soon.

Can i do anything to help make this pack compatible with SAD2?  Remember, this pack is at least half-meant for display auto-detection issues.
140+MB compressed to 33MB, still have some folders to clean, update.  Is there an upper-limit on the number of files within a pack?

Rent the 'cloud', & someone could eventually break the 2048-bit encryption, extract the signing-key, & repeat history?  Then, maybe no driver would be safe.

Wow, what an assortment of intel chipsets; 845G, 865G, Grantsdale, 945G, Q43, Q965.  Are there any common add-on cards or peripherals?  I assume that all images are 32-bit.

This is like you say, probably a previously-unrecognized bug, yet if not, here's some troubleshooting tips that you may or may not find useful.

Dell's have been notorious for bad capacitors.  Google 'Capacitor Plague'.  'Borderline' caps tend to settle down after warming up.  Try pre-heating a dissimilar set of machines for an hour (or two) before the install process.  If the BS show up, it's likely not simply a 'borderline' cap.  Smaller form-factors are more prone, due to limited cooling capacities.  Often the blown caps are under the main cooling fan, nearest the CPU. 

Use a portable AM radio to tune in to a faint station, then turn on the power supply.  This works great for testing Remote Controls too, if a digital camera isn't handy; just put the remote up to the radio & press a button.  EMI harmonics (or dis-harmonics) at a very noticeable level can indicate some potentially serious problems inside the case.  Ensure to use grounded cords, or this trick won't work so well.

Check for overheating components with a non-contact infrared thermometer.  Temperatures above 55°C are to be avoided (@20°C ambient, dell spec for gx280 says 35°C max operating), as capacitor lifetime doubles with every 10°C decrease.
Oh yeah, many of the smaller caps on these boards may only be rated at 85°C, instead of the usual 105°C!  This usually only comes in to play inside thermal-zones.  Then again, when a power supply starts failing, it usually starts 'trying' to take other caps on the mainboard with it (excessive ripple-current is a killer too)

Power supplies are another potential vector.  Wires leading from the power supply to the mainboard should be 18 gauge minimum for 350W power supply, & 16 gauge for a true 600W+ (usually not a problem with these OEM's).  How clean is the power to the workstations?

How many hours have the machines been running from day one, total?  Can you venture an educated guess?

If you are confidant that your HW is up-to-snuff, then ensure all BIOS's are all up-to-date.

having a little trouble understanding a line under [MonitorModel.AddReg]

I need to understand the syntax of HKR,,ICMProfile,0,"profile.icm".
What does "HKR,,ICMProfile,1,2" or "HKR,,ICMProfile,1,9" do?

I've been searching the net for a couple of hours now with few results, have i stumbled upon some state secrets here?

Beta may be released within a month or so.  http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/08 … ws-8-beta/
Am i the only one who's noticed that Mr. Ballmer looks an awful lot like Peter Boyle? http://macdailynews.com/2006/06/08/what … d_ballmer/

Not many folks can claim John Lennon as a Best Man for their wedding!  https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ … eter_Boyle

Win_8 graphics drivers to use WDDM v1.2.  INF files need to have NTx86.6.2 or NTx64.6.2 for HWID's.  Just a 'head's up' for future considerations.

Perhaps the Win8 forum should be divided in two - one for ARM variants, of which there may be several, and one for x86 & x64 hardware.

Like maybe Google acquiring Motorola Mobility?  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/1 … 27693.html

very few of the .xml files have WCS profile from what i've seen so far.  According to MS, there is a way to export these profiles to a .ICC or .ICM profile.

Um, the sigverif tool has a log output similar to the Win98 version of SFC.exe insofar as the date values get truncated.  No dice; it is rejecting infs with sha1 values exactly as indicated in the cat files.  Much like the SFC tool, this may need some work which would be well above my abilities now.

Do you have any other options, i'm forced to do all the verification manually for 12000+ files.

I must be somewhere near the halfway point on this pack; maybe a 11.09 release is more likely.  http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic. … 838#p44838

OK, it would seem that sigverif only verifies certification IF the 'Security Catalog' (.cat) is presently installed, except for individual files that carry their own certification within. (ie: .sys, .exe, .dll, .cat, .etc, ...)  Vista or 7 minimum .cat files are verified by this tool, as well, without noting OSAttr=2:6.0,2:6.1.  It really gets confusing with .cat's with OSAttr=2:5.0,2:6.0 as the results are the same as the previous case.

I forgot to mention that i am working in xp, if it helps.  Is it not true that a driver with a .cat file with OSAttr=2:5.0 should verify as WHQL in 5.1?

Here's some OS X info for the fine-of-palate.  Since the American juggernaut is flush with more cash than some first-world countries, they will continue to have an indirect influence on the PC market.
  http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/client-d … htm?pgno=1

(AutoDesk's AutoCAD WS is available for iPad)

Next gen iStuff devices may include built-in projection.  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/11 … ay_patent/

Someday,  someone (hopefully MicroSoft) will realize that with ARM's being installed in MacBooks, iWhatevers, & soon iMacs, could open up the possibility that a special version of Win 8 will be compiled for Apple ARM silicon (A5, etc). (making perhaps 8 or so versions of 8 for ARM!)

Here is an expose of OS X Lion's new security features.  http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/security … htm?pgno=1
Enterprises are not yet amused, though.  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08 … rity_risk/ (i'm sorry, the iCloud ate my homework!)
Alas, Cupertino; it would seem possible that Auto-OS-Updates may come back to take a bite out of Apple.

Apple & MicroSoft bitch-slapped Google in their patent war recently.  http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/channel- … s-week.htm

NEC/Renesas has restored their Japanese Naka fabrication plant.  That should be good news for fans of USB 3.0, not good for ThunderBolt fans though.  http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news … --Naka-fab (You call THAT a clean-room?)  Renesas itself, is a result of a merger between Hitachi & Mitsubishi in 2003.

Beware of vendors selling 'cheap' SSD's!  http://www.anandtech.com/show/4604/the- … s-compared
If only they could incorporate linux's BADRAM capabilities.  I'll be sticking with a redundant array of inexpensive disks, for the forseeable future.  There are tools out there to 'repair' FLASH controllers (including USB sticks) that have 'Electronic Demetia'.  I'm looking forward to using one of these tools in a quest to take two 4GB USB sticks and making one 8GB drive that is TWICE AS FAST.  Of course this would mean that it could fail twice as fast.

Has anyone seen the Futurama episode "Attack of the Killer App"?  "Why do they call it an eyePhone?  OUCH!"  I love the part about Leela's boil (named Susan!)