Re: [BUG] nVidia problems
1. DriverPack Chipset
-ALL Chipset drivers are put together, to support ALL hwids. The theory behind this is easy: although there may be newer versions of drivers for specific Chipsets, old hwids are STILL supported in the newer .inf files. That implies that the newer drivers do support the older devices, which may seem to NOT be supported officially through this drivers.
I've been using this approach for a very long time (at least more than a year) and so far it has always proved to be working.
-Note that the nVidia Ethernet and nVidia Audio drivers are included in DriverPack LAN and Sound, respectively.
2. DriverPack LAN
There are only problems with nForce 3 drivers, that share some hwids with nForce 4 ethernet devices and therefore get the wrong drivers installed, resulting in an unusable networking device, that cannot even be disabled anymore...
3. DriverPack MassStorage
-nVidia's mass storage device drivers have been bad since the nForce 2 days: the well-known IDE filter driver that caused so many problems. That got fixed. Then nForce 3 got released, and the drivers were good. nForce 4 showed up, bye bye unified drivers, hello problems. That would not have been a problem, if nVidia wouldn't have decided to MAKE it a problem. They're reusing the same hwids for incompatible devices. Pure misery.
-My policy is to always have the latest drivers. But above that, there is stability. If I can make everything work in an out-of-the-box way and thereby not be completely up-to-date, then I'll choose that path. But that hasn't been the case for the nVidia mass storage devices for a long time (it HAS been that way though).
-As many will agree, I've invested a LOT of time in trying to find THE best solution. But there isn't. I don't remember who found it, but there is someone who found that you could use the mass storage drivers for nForce 1/2/3 for nForce 4 too. Ever since, most installations do succeed, but SpaceCommanderTravis' installation did not, unfortunately.
-I have contacted nVidia several times, but of course I've never got a reply.
General conclusion
If someone can come up with a very reliable solution, I'll implement it. But I have already spent so much time on the nVidia issues that I can assure you that the problem does not lie in our methods, but in nVidia's. The very least they could do, is at least provide a guide how you could make ONE install disc for ALL nVidia platforms, in such a way that all drivers would be up-to-date. Since it's their fault they've made this mess. As far as my experience goes, this problem is not to be solved in a good, clean way. It can only be solved by applying hacks.
P.S.: kudos for hmaster10. If that method seems to be working, that'd be great. But can you imagine that ALL sysadmins would be prepared to do such an awful lot of efforts to get JUST ONE system installed? In that same time, you'd get many other systems installed, if they weren't using an nForce 3 or higher chipset.