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#41 User is offline   liquid0624 

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 06:38 PM

View Postsuryad, on Jun 12 2009, 08:06 PM, said:

Hey guys I keep getting a Load Driver popup saying that ' a required dvd/cd drive device driver is missing...etc etc.' when I am trying to run the vlited dvd in my system. You have any idea how to circumvent that problem?


Did you remove Manual Install (Setup.exe)? Do you have a raid, if not what kind of hard drive controller you have? Maybe u removed the Driver under Storage that you need.


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  Posted 12 June 2009 - 06:40 PM

lol we answered that one at the same time :thumbup

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:22 PM

View Postdead0, on Jun 12 2009, 05:38 PM, said:

View Postsuryad, on Jun 12 2009, 06:06 PM, said:

Hey guys I keep getting a Load Driver popup saying that ' a required dvd/cd drive device driver is missing...etc etc.' when I am trying to run the vlited dvd in my system. You have any idea how to circumvent that problem?

make sure you have setup.exe in the sources folder, otherwise copy the setup.exe from the sources folder in original iso to the sources folder of the vlited dvd



Hmm **** that sounds like quite an important step! Wonder how I missed that! I was wondering if I was doing something else wrong like installing vlite 1.1 and then slapping 1.2 on top of it to bypass the waik requirement...or removing the games or the windows beep. Looks like I am gonna try all over again. Thanks for the pointer!

If I have not mentioned this before let me do it right now but thanks for the super fast replies fellas! Cheers! I will try what you suggested and post back if it worked!

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:39 PM

use the xtreme v2 preset and work your way down from there. You can remove the games just not the explorer and windows beep can be removed as well.

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:40 PM

View Postliquid0624, on Jun 12 2009, 06:39 PM, said:

use the xtreme v2 preset and work your way down from there. You can remove the games just not the explorer and windows beep can be removed as well.


Thanks for that suggestion. I did remove all the drivers but then I did download the latest windows 7 x64 drivers from the nvidia website and am integrating into vlite so that should work if I recall.

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:45 PM

You running a 780 sli board ? I am running a 790 sli board :) What i do is just copy the sataraid and sataide folders under the IDE directory after u extract the drivers to a new folder in the root of the install directory then load them using the browse feature during the install.

:yes: B) :P

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:48 PM

View Postliquid0624, on Jun 12 2009, 06:45 PM, said:

You running a 780 sli board ? I am running a 790 sli board :) What i do is just copy the sataraid and sataide folders under the IDE directory after u extract the drivers to a new folder in the root of the install directory then load them using the browse feature during the install.

:yes: B) :P



Good tip I will keep that in mind just in case this one does not work. I did notice that the setup.exe file was missing from the sources folder and so I dropped that in there from the original and now I am burning another dvd lol through vlite and keeping my fingers crossed :)

I really appreciate all the advice though.

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:53 PM

Bugger still did not work even with copying the setup.exe file over!

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 07:53 PM

Check your PM box before you burn, and also why don't u install from a flash drive ? Save those discs :)

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 08:03 PM

Sent you a PM liquid thanks a bazillion ;)

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 08:05 PM

View Postdead0, on Jun 12 2009, 09:32 AM, said:

View Postdead0, on Jun 12 2009, 08:46 AM, said:

Attachment rem7229x64.zip
you could try this batch file for x64 for my guide! seems to be working in removing the packages? the wim tweak also seems to work too? unfortunately, the testing in vmware takes too long as im using a 32bit OS as my main system!

ps this will be my only test with x64 as its too time consuming in vmware! :P

actually looks like the batch file does not fully work so ignore it neither does the wim tweak? will stick with 32bit testing for now....

just did another test run, looks like the batch file & tweak does seem to work but it must be run in an x64 environment?

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 08:35 PM

A really noob question...but when you navigate away from the components page and it asks you about the dependencies...meaning like network and sharing center needs link layer etc etc do you want to uncheck and keep needed component...do you guys just hit No?

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 04:14 AM

I on certain occasions do:
Removed LLTD, kept Network and Sharing Center
Removed QoS and IPsec, kept WIndows update
Removed Task Scheduler, kept SQM

However my preset does not work with build 7201.

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 10:15 AM

does anyone find build 7201 slightly quicker than 7229?

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 02:03 PM

nb games explorer can be removed but not with vlite?

ps i will atempt an extreme vlite with internet explorer & media player removed? btw is it worth removing netfx or is that an integral part of windows 7?

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 04:22 PM

not good...if you remove internet explorer, theres no back/forward movement in explorer! also mmc snapins will not work such as event viewer...back to the drawing board! :P

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 07:19 PM

Hmm my game explorer is there but for some reason it is not downloading the box art and other information for 2 games that I have installed as of the moment COD World at War and the Last Remnant. Any ideas?

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 08:04 PM

Don't use game explorer so i don't know. I am working on a new preset to keep things more functional but also have low ram usage and take up less disk space will post back later i hope.

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Posted 13 June 2009 - 08:32 PM

View Postliquid0624, on Jun 13 2009, 07:04 PM, said:

Don't use game explorer so i don't know. I am working on a new preset to keep things more functional but also have low ram usage and take up less disk space will post back later i hope.



Cheers looking forward to it.

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Posted 14 June 2009 - 08:38 PM

View Postdead0, on Jun 11 2009, 09:00 PM, said:

View Postliquid0624, on Jun 11 2009, 06:55 PM, said:

I understand the cosmetic reasons because of the remote settings under system properties and the shortcuts on the start menu. Packages using the DISM tutorial u mean or under vlite im still getting 202 using vlite. Working on my first test now wish me good luck.

when i ran the install wim tweak, it was showing 264 or so with 7201 & now, it shows 357? with 7229

I using your mini-guide right now. The correct value is 364 packages for 7229 x86.
One question: Your batch file remove 72 packages befor vLite. Is possible to remove more packages with DISM ?

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