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no, and that's the other thing! 
EDIT: it really seems to be none other fault than my PC!
strange thing is the exact same installation worked months ago.
- same hardware
- same Windows
- same driverpacks
- same tool used
- jaws/snow tool produces the same effect.
Okay, I've just reinstalled Windows with another Windows CD, but the problem really seems to be my PC because every other PC I try that on, and to my mind in the same circumstances, succeeds with drivers and everything! And every Windows installation I do on my PC (that were working a few months ago) now fails on automatic driver installation.
Otherwise my PC works great, it's just the drivers that doesn't get installed correctly...
I've compiled all the five pictures, the HWIDs and the log file.
In case you wanna check that out: http://tinyurl.com/bugreport
When I get the time I'll do a memtest but I doubt that's the problem.
1) the best thing for you to do is to use DriverPacks "disc" method to integrate your drivers into your source.
(drivers first install)
2) the next best thing for you to do is to use the Stand Alone Drivers (SAD) feature of base.
(software first install)
While I try Warm Snow, you think you can dig me out the two other links? e.g. I've fell on the SAD topic earlier, but this all was a bag of nonsense to me (I'm no techie), I mean, there was way to much written!
I just want a simple program which I can bring to my friends' homes via CD with driverpacks and help them... and I really don't understand why this hasn't worked on me, maybe someone with the same CPU as me can try to install CPU driverpacks with jaws' tool to further investigate the source of the problem?
Furthermore, some things I don't understand:
- is it normal, that in device manager I have these chipset exclamation marks (see picture); I wonder because I know the SM Bus controller written by NVIDIA doesn't really offer extra performance over native drivers
- is it normal, that the only drivers listed in Add/Remove programs are the ones shown in the picture?
I've started this topic today because of the need I feel to "investigate the source of the problem," because I'm pretty sure having installed the same drivers, under the same conditions, for the same hardware, with the same tool, and in a successful manner, in the past.
My feeling is that it's only a small factor at the cause of the problem!
And if the topic for jaws' tool has been stickied for that time, if it was so screwed by that time someone would already have replied, wouldn't it?
Peace out,
I'm tired.
EDIT: lol, at least that's not the fault of jaws' problem! because Warm snow's did exact same thing.
what can the source of the problem be?! it must be coming from me...
http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eega8.jpg
weird thing is that it isn't coming from my Windows CD or from driverpacks (as the exact same, even under the same circumstances worked on my laptop), and now it's not coming from jaws' tool either! weird stuff...
lol @overflow: "as i said i think you're the first one that has ever used it"
that's what I thought, but let me tell you this is one nice piece of a program!
I've had a problem, but wonder if the tool if the source of the problem.
Maybe you can help: http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?pid=25627
I don't know. That's just plain weird, because I'd have sworn to successfully have installed drivers for the same hardware using the same tool and almost same official, i.e. non third party, driverpacks.
And now that doesn't work, and just to be sure I've tried by recreating my system partition anew, installed Windows, and re-downloaded driverpacks and driver updater (just to be sure), but it the was same as in first try.
But just for the fun of it I've took another computer (my laptop), reinstalled Windows, given it the same driverpacks and tool, and everything went fine, neither is there anything weird in the device manager.
Maybe I have hallucinated having used that driver updater tool in the past!
I'll try to see if jaws has anything to say on the subject...
They have not been integrated.
One of the first things I did upon fresh Windows XP installation was to download driverpacks, verified so the checksums matched, and installed them with the tool I've mentionned.
P.S.: I've ran tool again (with CPU driverpacks) and have been able to reproduce the two first mentionned popups:
EDIT: I didn't expect was this wouldn't be silent, but during the install:
- a screen appeared, about CPU install, and I had to press finish because the install was stalled;
- immediately after that, a second screen (identical to the first one) appeared and I had to click finish;
- to reproduce the third popup, I'd likely have to reinstall Windows (I could). If I remember correctly, the third popup, which happened in the minutes following the two others, was about sound installation.
EDIT2: the only yellow exclamation marks to be found in the device manager seem not to be about sound or video, but rather "system devices," and are illustrated in the picture inside the rar archive posted in the first post.
EDIT3: here is a third picture, showing the driver contents of the add/remove programs page.
It was written "Anything that doesn't fit somewhere else, can be posted in this forum!". Well, it actually could fix everywhere, so I've chosen to post that here!
Using the latest driverpacks, the driverupdater from jaws has been used under a fresh install of Windows XP.
What I didn't expect was this wasn't 100% silent; during the install:
- a screen appeared, about CPU install, and I had to press next because the install was stalled;
- immediately after that, a screen telling "roolback has been done" and I had to click finish;
- in the minutes following this, I had to press another button, this time about sound driver.
(I'm not exactly sure what these windows were all about, but if you people want me to I could reinstall Windows, install drivers again and take pictures of what I'm talking about.
It's not the required-user-interaction part of the process that annoyed me, it's that, after the tool told me I could restart the system: I've did, but upon startup an error about the NVIDIA control panel always shows up (see uploaded picture).
Secondly, the NVIDIA control panel is not accessible neither from tray, neither from start menu programs, neither a NVIDIA entry exists in the program files folder, but graphic driver seem to be installed fine.
Thirdly (and similarly), the Creative Audio Console (i.e. control panel) is not accessible neither from tray, neither from start menu programs, and neither there is a Creative folder in program files, but the sound works. Note that prior to install, the onboard audio in the BIOS has been disabled.
Thing is, with access to the Audio Console you are able to change the mode from "game" (default) to "entertainment," which is great when you do stuff like watching movies.
I've rared together a screenshot, the HWIDs.txt and another log file, from c:\windows\: http://www.MegaShare.com/513126
this is all for now, but I'll stay near and watch the topic from day to day if you guys want more input from me. like I said, this might be of help to you in diagnosing the issues that I post screenshots of what happens during the install.
thanks guy, these driverpacks look really awesome...
Well, I don't know if it actually has to do with the driverpacks, but consider this as a report of facts:
- I've installed the official stable GA804 driverpacks using jaws' installer tool;
- one month later, I've upgraded to this GA8.09RC3 and all went right;
- this week, I've installed that Cooliris add-on (http://tinyurl.com/ypejbo) for Fx3, but on browser restart, the following error message appeared: http://tinyurl.com/3hcc2r (please update NVIDIA drivers);
- I've restarted the PC, and even updated drivers using official NVIDIA driver package and rebooted again, but Firefox still crashed with the same error message each time it was opened;
- to solve this, I've uninstalled the NVIDIA display driver, rebooted, installed back using the official NVIDIA forceware package, rebooted, launched the browser and then "vlam," a page saying "Cooliris installation succesful" opened, and now the problem is gone, so it definitely was a driver problem.
EDIT: maybe the problem would not have appeared if I had uninstalled the GA804 NVIDIA drivers and rebooted before installing the newest GA8.09RC3 driverpack.
Keep up the good work! ;)
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PCI Devices
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PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1100&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C0: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1101&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C1: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1102&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C2: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_1103&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\3&2411E6FE&0&C3: PCI standard host CPU bridge
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0050&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&08: PCI standard ISA bridge
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0052&SUBSYS_815A1043&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&09: NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0053&SUBSYS_815A1043&REV_F2\3&2411E6FE&0&30: NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0054&SUBSYS_815A1043&REV_F3\3&2411E6FE&0&38: NVIDIA nForce4 ADMA Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0055&SUBSYS_815A1043&REV_F3\3&2411E6FE&0&40: NVIDIA nForce4 ADMA Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0057&SUBSYS_81411043&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&50: Other PCI Bridge Device
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0059&SUBSYS_812A1043&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&20: Multimedia Audio Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005A&SUBSYS_815A1043&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&10: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005B&SUBSYS_815A1043&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&11: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005C&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A2\3&2411E6FE&0&48: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&58: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&60: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&68: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005D&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&70: nForce4 PCI-Express Root Port
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_005E&SUBSYS_815A1043&REV_A3\3&2411E6FE&0&00: nForce4 HyperTransport Bridge
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0193&SUBSYS_042110DE&REV_A2\4&243D7BD0&0&0070: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8139&SUBSYS_813910EC&REV_10\4&13699180&0&3048: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_00311102&REV_00\4&13699180&0&3848: Creative SB X-Fi
22 matching device(s) found.
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USB Devices
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USB\ROOT_HUB\4&35297846&0 : USB Root Hub
USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&1E67B15B&0 : USB Root Hub
USB\VID_0079&PID_0006\5&36C701F9&0&7 : USB Human Interface Device
USB\VID_046D&PID_C043\5&36C701F9&0&3 : USB Human Interface Device
USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C13\1.0 : D-Link DWA-130 Wireless N USB Adapter(rev.B)
5 matching device(s) found.
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Input Devices
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HID\VID_0079&PID_0006\6&31FA0065&0&0000 : HID-compliant game controller
HID\VID_046D&PID_C043\6&ED13BBB&0&0000 : HID-compliant mouse
2 matching device(s) found.
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ACPI Devices
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ACPI\ATK0110\1010110 : ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY
ACPI\AUTHENTICAMD_-_X86_FAMILY_15_MODEL_43\_0 : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
ACPI\AUTHENTICAMD_-_X86_FAMILY_15_MODEL_43\_1 : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
ACPI\FIXEDBUTTON\2&DABA3FF&0 : ACPI Fixed Feature Button
ACPI\PNP0000\3&2411E6FE&0 : Programmable interrupt controller
ACPI\PNP0100\3&2411E6FE&0 : System timer
ACPI\PNP0200\3&2411E6FE&0 : Direct memory access controller
ACPI\PNP0303\3&2411E6FE&0 : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
ACPI\PNP0401\1 : ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
ACPI\PNP0501\1 : Communications Port (COM1)
ACPI\PNP0700\3&2411E6FE&0 : Standard floppy disk controller
ACPI\PNP0800\3&2411E6FE&0 : System speaker
ACPI\PNP0A06\3&473F1A46&0 : Extended IO Bus
ACPI\PNP0A08\1 : PCI bus
ACPI\PNP0B00\3&2411E6FE&0 : System CMOS/real time clock
ACPI\PNP0C01\2&DABA3FF&0 : System board
ACPI\PNP0C02\1 : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0C02\4 : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0C02\5 : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0C04\3&2411E6FE&0 : Numeric data processor
ACPI\PNP0C0B\2&DABA3FF&0 : ACPI Fan
ACPI\PNP0C0C\2&DABA3FF&0 : ACPI Power Button
ACPI\PNPB006\3&2411E6FE&0 : NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MIDI UART
ACPI\PNPB02F\3&2411E6FE&0 : Standard Game Port
ACPI\THERMALZONE\THRM : ACPI Thermal Zone
ACPI_HAL\PNP0C08\0 : Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 : ACPI Multiprocessor PC
27 matching device(s) found.Hey, that's a great post. As I see there's no release schedule, which is great in its own respect, too.
Stability of driverpacks is our primary goal. There's no point in having the latest if your system crashes because of it.
Good point. Way to go! ;)
Can we expect new releases in the near future?
I don't know if all driverpacks will soon be updated, but hey, maybe this can help:
It looks like we won't be able to go final release [with Graphics A] until at least 8.10
nice program.
mr_smartepants wrote:Helmi wrote:Sounds more than fair enough.
Dunno about the HD3400 series but the HD3800 (and subsequently the HD4800) definately kick ass and are very well worth their quite low price!Well I wasn't going to buy it for performance.
I'm desperate to test the HD-series ATI cards in a controlled environment just to ensure this is working. This was just the cheapest option.That's dedication, hat's off.
Seconded.
What is the criteria for DriverPacks (from the forum) to go "gold" and be displayed on the overview page? http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/overview.php
As I see it, they get updated a few times a year... which is great, IMO, but what would you people be recommending me, release candidates like GA8.07A, or the official GA8.04?
Well, I think we'll stick with 175.19 for the time-being.
Alright, but then (if not already) be informed that the 175.19 has been re-released the very day of your post (that is, the 9th of July). It's probable that the performance issues has been fixed, though be warned that this claim is limited by speculation and may not be reflecting actual facts.
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