26

(30 replies, posted in Windows 7 Discussion)

Once again, if it works for muiz it must work for the rest of the world ...
Sorry but I am doing my own W7 driverpacks now because yours do not work for me ...

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(60 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Graphics A)

Hi Muiz,

thanks. I guess I am doing it this was already except I do not remove the w7 infs (and I don´t get any BDODs) and I am expanding all the files keeping their extension filename (dl_ etc.) because dism.exe won´t integrate them on W7 otherwise.

Bye,
Alex

28

(60 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Graphics A)

Hi muiz,

the link is not working :-)
Byebye

29

(60 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Graphics A)

Hi muiz,

both are not true here. I keep the Win7 inf without any BSOD or any other problem.
And no, ATI driver will not install on Windows7 with dism.exe when it is not expanded. I am not talking about Vista but Win7.

Bye,
Alex

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(60 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Graphics A)

Hi again,

one more thing:

as has been posted in the MSFN forum, you need to expand the compressed dl_, ex_, sy_ etc. files while keeping the "_" at the end of the extension otherwise dism will throw an error ...

Bye,
Alex

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(60 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Graphics A)

Hi muiz,

thanks ! One suggestion: Would you mind leaving the Windows 7 drivers (for ATI, NVIDIA but maybe others too) in the driverpack when building it ? I guess many guys will use the Vista driverpacks for Win7 as well so if the Vista driver already comes with Win7 drivers, why not integrate them until Win7 packs are available ?

Thanks !
Alex

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(67 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack LAN)

Hi !

New driver for Marvell Chipset:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDi … iverId=206 (x86)
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDi … iverId=207 (x64)

It says that its for Windows 7 but the inf is for Vista/W7 together.

Bye,
Alex

33

(78 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Audio)

Hi Muiz,

new version of RME driver:
http://www.rme-audio.de/download/hdsp_wdm_3080.zip

Bye,
Alex

34

(6 replies, posted in Windows 7 Discussion)

Hi muiz,

wouldn´t it be better to add W7 drivers to the Vista driverpacks instead of making  seperate W7 driverpacks ? You could name them Vista_W7 driverpacks .... W7 is just an "update" to Vista (NT 6.1 vs 6.0), both are very similar technically and most cpmpanies will have one driver for both OSes anyway.

Bye,
Alex

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(78 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Audio)

Hi muiz

new RME driver out:
http://www.rme-audio.de/download/hdsp_wdm_3079.zip

(32 and 64 bit)
Bye,
Alex

36

(73 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi muiz,

I made a screenshot of the vmware scsi device (under the node disk drives). your screenshot is from the storage controllers node. so this is no proof :-)

Bye,
alex

37

(73 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi muiz,

yes, the same problem also in vista on vmware server 2.0 (this has to be reproducable for you).
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2228/screen01n.jpg

Bye,
alex

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(78 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Audio)

Hi muiz,

new RME drivers for 64 and 32bit:
http://www.rme-audio.de/download/hdsp_wdm_3077.zip

Thanks !
Alex

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(73 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi Again,

I think I may know why the SI Control panel is being installed ...
See this picture:
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4738/64544035.png

This is the driver details for my Western Digital Harddrive (connected to the onboard Intel ICH10 controller in AHCI mode). For some reason the harddrive uses the Silicon Image SiRemFil.sys driver although no SI controller is present on the system.

Can you do something about this, muiz ?
Bye,
Alex

The ICH10 controller uses the Intel iastor.sys driver.

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(73 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi muiz,

And there is no such thing as slipstreaming all the images at once, i dont think a pc can handle that.

I did not say at once but I do slipstream the drivers into all available images of a wim. From my script:

 

REM Create Indexfile of wim
"%WaikTools%\imagex.exe" /info %WinImagex32% > "%AIWTempx32%\indexinstallwim.txt"

REM FIND OUT IMAGECOUNT OF INSTALL.WIM
for /f "tokens=3" %%a in ('find /I "Image Count" "%AIWTempx32%\indexinstallwim.txt"') do set ImageCountMax=%%a

REM START WITH INDEX1 for IMAGECOUNT
set Index=1

REM SET STARTPOINT FOR INDEX LOOP
:startindex32

REM MOUNT WINDOWS IMAGE (install.wim) WITH CERTAIN INDEXCOUNT
IF %WinOS%==Windows7 %dism% /Mount-Wim /Wimfile:%WinImagex32% /index:%Index% /MountDir:%Mount%
IF NOT %WinOS%==Windows7 "%WaikTools%\imagex" /mountrw %WinImagex32% %Index% %Mount%



ECHO Integrating Driverpacks into install.wim Image %Index% of %ImageCountMax% ... 
ECHO Please be VERY patient ...

REM INTEGRATE DRIVERPACKS
IF %WinOS%==Windows7 %dism% /image:%Mount% /apply-unattend:%DriversSource%\Driversxml\drivers_installwim_x32.xml
IF NOT %WinOS%==Windows7 start "" /wait %pkgmgr% /o:%Mount%;%Mount%\Windows /n:%DriversSource%\Driversxml\drivers_installwim_x32.xml

REM UNMOUNT WINDOWS IMAGE (install.wim)
IF %WinOS%==Windows7 %dism% /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:%Mount% /commit
IF NOT %WinOS%==Windows7 "%WaikTools%\imagex" /unmount /commit %Mount%

REM IF INDEX IS LESS THAN MAX.IMAGECOUNT THEN ADD 1 TO INDEX AND GO BACK TO LOOP START
if %Index% LSS %ImageCountMax% set /A Index=%Index%+1 & goto :startindex32

Thats just part of my script. It also automatically creates those drivers.xml files that Vista needs depending on the location of the drivers folder. The whole thing is a bit different for Win7.

I know it is just a commandline process, nothing advanced like C or vbs or powershell but it works.
So things are indeed possible ....

Bye,
Alex

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(58 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Audio)

Hi !

New version of RME Driver:

http://www.rme-audio.de/download/hdsp_wdm_3076.zip
(64 and 32 bit).

Bye,
Alex

42

(73 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi guys,

I would call the Vista driverpacks section something like Vista-Win7 driverpacks section. Sooner or later, people will come flying to Windows 7 and then it won´t be such a pariah anymore :-) I myself use Win7 build 7056 exclusively now and except for some minor bugs have no complaint whatsoever.

Even Vista was not that bad over the last few months once you set your mind to it and learned a few new ways but it certainly was different from XP and we all know that people won´t learn new things unless they have to or unless they gain some profit from it. Hopefully Win7 will bring enough profit so people will adopt it.

As for the Vista driverpacks:

muiz, I really, really (really !) appreciate your efforts and your quick response to new driver updates etc.
I hope you can see that my reporting of bugs or problems is meant to help make the driverpacks better, it´s not just whining. :-)

I would very much like the Vista/Win7 driverpacks to go the driverpacks Base route with logging/testing etc.
It does work currently (at least I have found no major problem on my pcs except for the one jraid driver update) but it may be different on some other hardware or with different drivers.

If I can help in any way (I am no programmer except for some very light scripting but I can test) please tell me !

Bye,
Alex


PS: I m not using the Vistatool by the way because it does not work unattendedly and won´t integrate the drivers into all images of a wim (you have to do this manually one by one). Instead I have created a script that will integrate all DriverPacks automatically using the waik commandline tools and integrate it automatically into all available images of a wim. So the proble with the SI control panel on vmware is definitely a driverproblem not a vistatool problem.

I can post the scripts if people are interested or would like to adapt them (currently it does not have any logging)

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(55 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi muiz,

do you still need me to test those jmicron drivers ? but actually you can also do this yourself in vmware etc.
I would suggest to test a new driverpack before releaseing it especially for something bootcritical as the masstorage pack. Or introduce a testcylce similar to the older driverpacks for XP.

Bye,
Alex

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(73 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi muiz,

it also happens on all of my pcs and even on vmware so at least in vmware you might be able to reproduce this.
I mentioned this a few months ago by the way :-)

bye,
Alex

45

(41 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Graphics B)

Hi guys,

is this one still necessary now that DP Graphics A is out ?
Bye,
Alex

46

(55 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack Mass Storage)

Hi guys,


there seems to be a problem with Windows7 and the jraid drive that is included in the newest massstorage pack. As you can see in this screenshot, Windows won´t load with this driver:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8420/screen01j.jpg

Don´t know yet if this happens with Vista too and if it is happening on physical hardware (still testing with vmware).

Any ideas ?
Bye
Alex

PS: Unfortunately, the error also appears on real hardware (Sony Notebook). So I will take out that driver for now.

47

(67 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack LAN)

Thanks, muiz ! :-)

48

(67 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack LAN)

Hi muiz,

thanks for the upload but you linked to the x64 pack :-)
Bye
Alex

49

(67 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack LAN)

Hi once again,

I have now found two files on the Intel site that contain both driverfiles, x32 and 64 so no need to download the Dell drivers.

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/12200/a … _v13_5.exe
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/12197/a … _v13_5.exe

Sorry for all those posts above. I guess the last two links contain everything you need.

Bye,
Alex

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(67 replies, posted in Vista / 7 DriverPack LAN)

Hi shahed,

no problem. Glad I can help.
One more thing to add to my post above:

Interestingly, the x64 driverfiles needed for the Dell Optiplex 760 are not inside the Intel zip file, the x86 drivers are ?!?

So here is a link to the drivers on the dell site, they are a bit older but contain both the 32 and 64bit versions:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R207259.exe

Bye,
Alex