• Registered: 2006-11-23
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Topic: Custom DriverPacks... is it possible?

Hello everybody!

First of all, congratulations for this interesting forum. You can learn a lot here. And of course I come with a problem. I must tell you that I know @#$% about programming and even if I'm given a step by step tutorial I am not patient enough to follow it. So I bought this WD 250Gb (KS) SATAII hard disk thinking that, well, there are some drivers to install but at least I might gain a bit of speed. My MoBo is an Epox 8rda3+ with a Sil Image 3112 controller. First I tried to install a version of WinXP which was already slipstreamed (by smb. else) with the latest mass-storage drivers (he said), including those from Silicon Image. No luck. I got a BSOD. Later I realised that in fact WinXP didn't recognise my drive. I was confused by the fact that XP actually began to load (the three blue dots...) before giving me the BSOD. So I tried to install it with F6 using the original Epox drivers from the MoBo CD. I followed the procedure but I think that they somehow got overwritten with the drivers from the XP CD. Same result. Next, I tried to install a "clean" version of XP and hit F6 and this time it worked though it warned me (uncertified driver). However, as far as I can see, everybody around here is trying to install these drivers directly from the XP CD. I did the same and I used your software DriverPacks BASE and mass storage DP along with other "preparations" which I don't very well understand since I'm not used to this kind of stuff. Finally I managed to burn the CD but the result was the same: BSOD, though I could see in the lower bar that the drivers were processed. Now you may laugh at me but I think that the original Sil Img drivers are the problem (in my case). I need to find a way to include the original Epox drivers in your DP and I hope that you can show me how to do it. Right now I'm also trying another method which requires the modofication of some files but I don't know if it works because it sais that I need at least four driver files including a .cab file which I don't have. Thank you for your patience and I hope you can help me.

  • Jaak
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  • Registered: 2006-07-23
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Re: Custom DriverPacks... is it possible?

hi

Muiz3 and Bâshrat the Sneaky are working on the sil3112 issue.
my testrig has another sil chip, so i cannot test this.

you could do with Nlite to slip your floppy into the source
then use DPs_base to slip everything but the mass storage.

(the guys are testing with a modified mass storage. something conflicts, and they are trying to finsd out what other driver does this)

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Kind regards, Jaak.
  • Registered: 2006-11-23
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Re: Custom DriverPacks... is it possible?

Thank you jtdoom. Already merged the drivers with nLite and it worked. Awesome software, don't you think? As for the other of your DriverPacks I still have to check out your forum and learn about them and about nLite before I try anything else. I already ruined about ten CDs trying to figure it out and I suppose there are more to be ruined. Thank you again and good luck with that silicon issue.

  • Jaak
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Re: Custom DriverPacks... is it possible?

hehe, You should use CDRW or DVDRW..
iow, rewritables...

The answer was 42?
Kind regards, Jaak.
  • Helmi
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Re: Custom DriverPacks... is it possible?

maddriver wrote:

Already merged the drivers with nLite and it worked. Awesome software, don't you think?

Definately quite handy indeed.

jtdoom wrote:

hehe, You should use CDRW or DVDRW..

Yeah, absolutely.
That and maybe even use a Virtual Machine to test basic CD functionallity before installing it anywhere.
Doesn't catch any specific hardware related problems but shows you any mayor global problems (for instance with nLite).

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  • Registered: 2006-11-23
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Re: Custom DriverPacks... is it possible?

Ok, I'll follow your advice. Thank you!