1 Reply by mallen

(18 replies, posted in Universal Imaging)

Nice guys. We can mark this one solved! Not sure if it was bigfoot's idea to extract drivers from the newest bootcamp installer, or the mr_smartepants' idea to use siginet's driver grabber.

That siginet's driver grabber is pretty sweet, Ill have to keep that tool handy.

I had no idea how to extract the driver files  I needed from that installer, so thanks for the detailed explanation, bigfoot!

Thank you everybody for your input and help, my boss is finally happy with these results.

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2 Reply by mallen

(18 replies, posted in Universal Imaging)

Ok, well I just tried it without the makePNF, but no luck. Still no sound. Ill try those methods to get / test more drivers and report back later.

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3 Reply by mallen

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Thanks mr_smartepants,  but I'd rather have a slipstreamed universal image. In my post I said I am pushing out the image to 50+ computers (different models) and I don't want to use sneakernet to install drivers on each individual machine.

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4 Topic by mallen

(18 replies, posted in Universal Imaging)

Sorry if this is in the wrong subsection, but I couldn't decide whether or not this is a sound DP issue or universal imaging issue.

Ok, so here's my deal: I am trying to make one image that I can push out to two different iMacs (using bootcamp), but different versions (both still quite new). I am following the stickied: [HOWTO] Using DriverPacks w/ Sysprep.

I'm trying to push out an image of windows XP Pro. I followed the HOWTO and it worked out pretty well for the first run. (This may sound crazy, but) I used all the driver packs available and some drivers were still not installed. No biggy, I followed Ricktendo64's guide (http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=279) to get those to load up.

I am at the point where every driver is good except the sound on one of the two machines. The crazy part is, is that it says it is installed correctly (Device manager shows the correct driver - SigmaTel High Definition Audio Codec - is installed and "is working correctly". However it's not. No sound is produced from either headphones or internal speakers. If I go to start->programs->accessories->entertainment->volume control, Windows exclaims that there is no active mixer devices available.

I tried using both SP2 with the KB88811 fix (microsoft HD audio driver) installed and also I tried using a base image of SP3. Both times, one model works fine (the one with RealTek sound), and the older model (with Sigmatel audio) unexplainably doesn't work. If I reinstall the driver the regular way (with an EXE) it reinstalls the same drivers and works fine. I don't want to have to do that though, because I will be pushing this image out to about 50 computers and my boss won't find that an acceptable solution (this is my current project to work on). Ugh, this is getting annoying - been working 20 hours a week on this project, and spent all last week on this audio problem alone.



Some of my logs (obviously from the computer with no sound) were kinda long, so here's the links to some relevant logs (changed to txt, so you they'll open up in your browser):

http://people.emich.edu/mallen14/DPsFnshr.txt

http://people.emich.edu/mallen14/setupapi.txt

http://people.emich.edu/mallen14/HWIDs.txt



edit: I just wanted to add that I appreciate any help I can get on this, I plan on posting a howto on these forums for imaging the windows side of macs if I can get all the kinks out.

- Also let me know if Im missing any pertinent info / logs that will help solve this.

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