[MadBoy]

lezhrej, on 04 March 2010 - 07:16 PM, said:

ohhh that's a great explaination. so where i can find driver pack? you mean like example in dell they have a driver cab on drive c. right? can i use it to put in on my driver directory? maybe i need to put all drivers in one folder and put this hardware installer, config.xml and edit this xml to path the direction of my drivers. am i right? please help coz i think i understand what u mean but im confused.

By driverpacks i meant http://driverpacks.net/. Drivers prepared by them are in clean form, having only .inf's and proper driver and not being packed with cabs, setup.exe and so on. It is possible that driver that has setup.exe, cab etc may work but it's not guaranteed so you may have to unpack and prepare the drivers for instalation (or use DriverPacks and pray they have all you need).

And yes, it's like in Dell you create on directory with all drivers and you put my program there or you keep it anywhere you want just .xml has to point to that directory. Then you run it (either in manual mode which you have to click thru, but it's very recommended in the beginning so you know what the program does, or in auto mode which after start will do what it says in .xml and shutdown itself when done).

By having one directory i mean C:\Drivers but you can have subfolders like C:\Drivers\Mobo\Somethings\Somethingelse. Program will search for drivers in every subdir so you don't have to put all drivers in one folder (it's even not recommended). I would suggest to read this whole thread (this may take a while) but should help you understand the process and see how other people get along with it.

[shambles]

this is my first post so please excuse me if I'm in the wrong place or wrong format. Most of this stuff is way beyond me, but I'm rebuilding my system after a trojan attack. Most things are up and running again but I cannot get my system to recognise my external drive - presumably my sata card is not registering. My card is a Silicon Image Si1 3112. It ran fine previously but now I cannot find a driver that I can install. I downloaded one from the SI website but when I opened it instead of an exe file I found a batch of files that I do not understand, with assorted endings. Is there a simple fix for an illiterate like me?

[MadBoy]

shambles, on 05 March 2010 - 02:26 PM, said:

this is my first post so please excuse me if I'm in the wrong place or wrong format. Most of this stuff is way beyond me, but I'm rebuilding my system after a trojan attack. Most things are up and running again but I cannot get my system to recognise my external drive - presumably my sata card is not registering. My card is a Silicon Image Si1 3112. It ran fine previously but now I cannot find a driver that I can install. I downloaded one from the SI website but when I opened it instead of an exe file I found a batch of files that I do not understand, with assorted endings. Is there a simple fix for an illiterate like me?

You should have created new thread. This one is for something diffrent then help with general drivers problems. I assume you have downloaded zip file or similar and after unpacking you have .inf file and bunch of other files but no .exe. This is normal. You should click start then in Run window type in devmgmt.msc. Then find device marked with yellow question mark and then right click on that device and choose properties. There you will find Install/Update driver in which you have to point to the .inf file that you unpacked.

[shambles]

MadBoy, on 06 March 2010 - 02:06 AM, said:

shambles, on 05 March 2010 - 02:26 PM, said:

this is my first post so please excuse me if I'm in the wrong place or wrong format. Most of this stuff is way beyond me, but I'm rebuilding my system after a trojan attack. Most things are up and running again but I cannot get my system to recognise my external drive - presumably my sata card is not registering. My card is a Silicon Image Si1 3112. It ran fine previously but now I cannot find a driver that I can install. I downloaded one from the SI website but when I opened it instead of an exe file I found a batch of files that I do not understand, with assorted endings. Is there a simple fix for an illiterate like me?

You should have created new thread. This one is for something diffrent then help with general drivers problems. I assume you have downloaded zip file or similar and after unpacking you have .inf file and bunch of other files but no .exe. This is normal. You should click start then in Run window type in devmgmt.msc. Then find device marked with yellow question mark and then right click on that device and choose properties. There you will find Install/Update driver in which you have to point to the .inf file that you unpacked.

Thank you for this assistance. I could not get Device Manager to recognise the files I had downloaded, but finally I gleaned from the Via website a download set which I had to save to CD to install, so I'm up and running again.

[pSycho-Y2K]

MadBoy, on 24 February 2010 - 05:18 AM, said:

Hello psycho. This bug seems to be related to database prepare. I'll take a look at code later on but can you check if it crashes only on that one netbook? It shouldn't be related to hardware because what it is doing then is going thru all drivers and putting them in database. So if it crashes on one notebook it should crash on the other if you're using same share/folder which happens to store the drivers.

Hello MadBoy

It's not netbook related, it also crashes in VMware Workstation which never happend with your older releases, check the screenshot.
I'm going to try your previous version.

UPDATE: It seems only version 2.0.0.28 is affected, perhaps your new driver database creation is the problem?

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This post has been edited by pSycho-Y2K: 08 March 2010 - 09:38 AM

[xecutor]

Hi,

I have the same problem as pSycho-Y2K. I get exactly the same AutoIt Error.

This post has been edited by xecutor: 29 March 2010 - 12:41 AM

[MadBoy]

I tried reproducing your problems and I couldn't. I downloaded like 15 driver packs and db created clearly without problems. Would it be possible that you (psycho or xecutor) to create me some 7zip file of your drivers db and put somewhere to download (can be big) or maybe try to isolate a problem to specific driver, amount of drivers?

Edit: I found the problem, it's in one of external libs i use. Will try to fix, ask to get it fixed.

This post has been edited by MadBoy: 12 April 2010 - 12:37 PM

[pSycho-Y2K]

MadBoy, on 12 April 2010 - 10:15 AM, said:

I tried reproducing your problems and I couldn't. I downloaded like 15 driver packs and db created clearly without problems. Would it be possible that you (psycho or xecutor) to create me some 7zip file of your drivers db and put somewhere to download (can be big) or maybe try to isolate a problem to specific driver, amount of drivers?

Edit: I found the problem, it's in one of external libs i use. Will try to fix, ask to get it fixed.

I use all drivers for Windows XP from DriverPacks.net. I download all de 7zips and extract them all in a single folder called Drivers which is located of the root of my USB-Harddrive (Z:\Drivers).

P.S. Any progress on this MadBoy?

This post has been edited by pSycho-Y2K: 03 June 2010 - 08:42 AM

[MadBoy]

pSycho-Y2K, on 03 June 2010 - 08:40 AM, said:

MadBoy, on 12 April 2010 - 10:15 AM, said:

I tried reproducing your problems and I couldn't. I downloaded like 15 driver packs and db created clearly without problems. Would it be possible that you (psycho or xecutor) to create me some 7zip file of your drivers db and put somewhere to download (can be big) or maybe try to isolate a problem to specific driver, amount of drivers?

Edit: I found the problem, it's in one of external libs i use. Will try to fix, ask to get it fixed.

I use all drivers for Windows XP from DriverPacks.net. I download all de 7zips and extract them all in a single folder called Drivers which is located of the root of my USB-Harddrive (Z:\Drivers).

P.S. Any progress on this MadBoy?

Unfortunately no. I've reported error with this but nobody cares :-) I had couple of findings by fixing inf files by hand but it's a lot of work. Have to find some other way around it and it's hard with time I have now :-) Plus there's not much motivation left in this case. XP is fading away so I would need to support Windows 7 and that's a lot of work. I am focused on things that get me money right now but have hopes. Maybe I'll get some time to fix it.

[cdusseau]

I get stuck at the line:

[INFO] Disabling Window Managing Wizard

After it hits that it just sits there til the end of time...

Well nvm that was an easy fix...just disabled the wizard.

But now I'm getting stuck at:

No active plug & play process has been found after 5 seconds. Terminating,

Here's my config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<settings>
  <basic_configuration>
    <choice>Manual</choice>
    <window_managing>
        <hardware_wizard>
            <wizard_use>No</wizard_use>
            <wizard_title>Found New Hardware Wizard</wizard_title>
            <wizard_button_cancel>Cancel</wizard_button_cancel>
            <wizard_button_next>Next</wizard_button_next>
            <wizard_button_finish>Finish</wizard_button_finish>
        </hardware_wizard>
    </window_managing>
    <share_configuration>
        <use_mapping>Yes</use_mapping>
        <map_network_drive>    
            <drivers_share>
                <share_path>\\image-server\share\drivers</share_path>
                <domain_username></domain_username>
                <domain_password></domain_password>
            </drivers_share>
        </map_network_drive>
    </share_configuration>
    <drivers>
          <drivers_method>New</drivers_method>
          <drivers_database_use>Yes</drivers_database_use>
          <drivers_database_recreate>No</drivers_database_recreate>
          <drivers_database_path>$ProgramDir\hardware_database.db</drivers_database_path>
          <drivers_directory_path>z:\</drivers_directory_path>
          <drivers_packed>No</drivers_packed>
          <drivers_copy>No</drivers_copy>
          <drivers_copy_path>C:\Drivers</drivers_copy_path>
          <drivers_copy_delete>No</drivers_copy_delete>
          <options>
              <method>RegistryDevicePath</method>
              <registry_path>End</registry_path>
              <problem_ids>01,10,18,24,28,37,39</problem_ids>
              <update_all>No</update_all>
              <plug_and_play>
                    <option>Internal</option>
                    <time_to_wait>5</time_to_wait>
              </plug_and_play>
              <shutdown>
                    <auto_reboot_when_necessary>No</auto_reboot_when_necessary>
                    <auto_reboot_when_done>No</auto_reboot_when_done>
                    <auto_login>Yes</auto_login>
                    <notify_when_done>Yes</notify_when_done>
              </shutdown>
              <time_to_run>0</time_to_run>
              <force_run>Yes</force_run>
              <device_manager>Yes</device_manager>
          </options>
    </drivers>
    <log>
          <log_overwrite>No</log_overwrite>
          <log_to_file>Yes</log_to_file>
          <log_filename_path>$ProgramDir\hardware.log</log_filename_path>
          <log_option>Advanced</log_option>
    </log>
    <gui>
          <hide_legacy_devices>No</hide_legacy_devices>
          <fade_in_effect>No</fade_in_effect>
          <hide_views>No</hide_views>
    </gui>
  </basic_configuration>
</settings>

Basically I am trying to connect to a server that hosts the drivers for several systems. I don't want to copy the drivers locally (unless necessary). Anyone see where I am going wrong? Also, will the program always map the network drive as z:?

This post has been edited by cdusseau: 07 October 2010 - 09:23 AM

[MadBoy]

cdusseau, on 07 October 2010 - 09:16 AM, said:

I get stuck at the line:

[INFO] Disabling Window Managing Wizard

After it hits that it just sits there til the end of time...

Well nvm that was an easy fix...just disabled the wizard.

But now I'm getting stuck at:

No active plug & play process has been found after 5 seconds. Terminating,

Here's my config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<settings>
  <basic_configuration>
    <choice>Manual</choice>
    <window_managing>
        <hardware_wizard>
            <wizard_use>No</wizard_use>
            <wizard_title>Found New Hardware Wizard</wizard_title>
            <wizard_button_cancel>Cancel</wizard_button_cancel>
            <wizard_button_next>Next</wizard_button_next>
            <wizard_button_finish>Finish</wizard_button_finish>
        </hardware_wizard>
    </window_managing>
    <share_configuration>
        <use_mapping>Yes</use_mapping>
        <map_network_drive>    
            <drivers_share>
                <share_path>\\image-server\share\drivers</share_path>
                <domain_username></domain_username>
                <domain_password></domain_password>
            </drivers_share>
        </map_network_drive>
    </share_configuration>
    <drivers>
          <drivers_method>New</drivers_method>
          <drivers_database_use>Yes</drivers_database_use>
          <drivers_database_recreate>No</drivers_database_recreate>
          <drivers_database_path>$ProgramDir\hardware_database.db</drivers_database_path>
          <drivers_directory_path>z:\</drivers_directory_path>
          <drivers_packed>No</drivers_packed>
          <drivers_copy>No</drivers_copy>
          <drivers_copy_path>C:\Drivers</drivers_copy_path>
          <drivers_copy_delete>No</drivers_copy_delete>
          <options>
              <method>RegistryDevicePath</method>
              <registry_path>End</registry_path>
              <problem_ids>01,10,18,24,28,37,39</problem_ids>
              <update_all>No</update_all>
              <plug_and_play>
                    <option>Internal</option>
                    <time_to_wait>5</time_to_wait>
              </plug_and_play>
              <shutdown>
                    <auto_reboot_when_necessary>No</auto_reboot_when_necessary>
                    <auto_reboot_when_done>No</auto_reboot_when_done>
                    <auto_login>Yes</auto_login>
                    <notify_when_done>Yes</notify_when_done>
              </shutdown>
              <time_to_run>0</time_to_run>
              <force_run>Yes</force_run>
              <device_manager>Yes</device_manager>
          </options>
    </drivers>
    <log>
          <log_overwrite>No</log_overwrite>
          <log_to_file>Yes</log_to_file>
          <log_filename_path>$ProgramDir\hardware.log</log_filename_path>
          <log_option>Advanced</log_option>
    </log>
    <gui>
          <hide_legacy_devices>No</hide_legacy_devices>
          <fade_in_effect>No</fade_in_effect>
          <hide_views>No</hide_views>
    </gui>
  </basic_configuration>
</settings>

Basically I am trying to connect to a server that hosts the drivers for several systems. I don't want to copy the drivers locally (unless necessary). Anyone see where I am going wrong? Also, will the program always map the network drive as z:?

I see a couple of things you need to look out for:
1. You need to fill domain username and password:

<share_path>\\image-server\share\drivers</share_path>
<domain_username>SomeDomain\DriversAccount</domain_username>
<domain_password>NewPassw4343</domain_password>

2. When you set your drive mapped as drivers_share you need to use drivers_share as drive letter latter on.

<drivers_share>
<share_path>\\image-server\share\drivers</share_path>
<domain_username></domain_username>
<domain_password></domain_password>
</drivers_share>

So when you use mapped drive latter on use it like:
<drivers_directory_path>drivers_share:\</drivers_directory_path>
This will make sure program will find at what letter it mapped the drive and use it.
So to answer your other question about mapping drive to letter Z -> No, use variables, otherwise program may be confused.

[cdusseau]

I'm still getting stuck at:

No active plug & play process has been found after 5 seconds. Terminating,

[MadBoy]

cdusseau, on 07 October 2010 - 03:54 PM, said:

I'm still getting stuck at:

No active plug & play process has been found after 5 seconds. Terminating,

Do you have any devices without drivers (being in Device Manager marked as ? or with some error code?)?

[cdusseau]

Yessir I do.

[cdusseau]

Well I tried using driverpacks with this and now I'm producing this Autoit error:



This only seems to happen when I try to prepare a database.

If I skip database creation I get this error instead:



Using this config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<settings>
  <basic_configuration>
    <choice>Manual</choice>
    <window_managing>
        <hardware_wizard>
            <wizard_use>Yes</wizard_use>
            <wizard_title>Found New Hardware Wizard</wizard_title>
            <wizard_button_cancel>Cancel</wizard_button_cancel>
            <wizard_button_next>Next</wizard_button_next>
            <wizard_button_finish>Finish</wizard_button_finish>
        </hardware_wizard>
    </window_managing>
    <share_configuration>
        <use_mapping>No</use_mapping>
        <map_network_drive>    
            <drive_1>
                <share_path>\\image-server\share\drivers\DriverPacks</share_path>
                <domain_username></domain_username>
                <domain_password></domain_password>
            </drive_1>
        </map_network_drive>
    </share_configuration>
    <drivers>
          <drivers_method>New</drivers_method>
          <drivers_database_use>Yes</drivers_database_use>
          <drivers_database_recreate>No</drivers_database_recreate>
          <drivers_database_path>$ProgramDir\hardware_database.db</drivers_database_path>
          <drivers_directory_path>RELATIVE:\DriverPacks\DriverPacks</drivers_directory_path>
          <drivers_packed>No</drivers_packed>
          <drivers_copy>No</drivers_copy>
          <drivers_copy_path>C:\Drivers</drivers_copy_path>
          <drivers_copy_delete>No</drivers_copy_delete>
          <options>
              <method>RegistryDevicePath</method>
              <registry_path>None</registry_path>
              <problem_ids>01,10,18,24,28,37,39</problem_ids>
              <update_all>Yes</update_all>
              <plug_and_play>
                    <option>Internal</option>
                    <time_to_wait>5</time_to_wait>
              </plug_and_play>
              <shutdown>
                    <auto_reboot_when_necessary>No</auto_reboot_when_necessary>
                    <auto_reboot_when_done>No</auto_reboot_when_done>
                    <auto_login>Yes</auto_login>
                    <notify_when_done>Yes</notify_when_done>
              </shutdown>
              <time_to_run>0</time_to_run>
              <force_run>Yes</force_run>
              <device_manager>Yes</device_manager>
          </options>
    </drivers>
    <log>
          <log_overwrite>No</log_overwrite>
          <log_to_file>Yes</log_to_file>
          <log_filename_path>$ProgramDir\hardware.log</log_filename_path>
          <log_option>Advanced</log_option>
    </log>
    <gui>
          <hide_legacy_devices>No</hide_legacy_devices>
          <fade_in_effect>No</fade_in_effect>
          <hide_views>No</hide_views>
    </gui>
  </basic_configuration>
</settings>

This is making the program pretty much useless to me. I know you have other priorities but any chance you know whats going on?

[MadBoy]

Hello. The first error is probably some misuse in code, but even if i fix it you will get the 2nd error.

The error is related to INI Read (_IniReadSection) and is related to code not written by me. I've reported error on author's thread but seems he doesn't care (http://www.autoitscr...showtopic=32004). The builtin IniReadSection has a limit which makes it unusable.

There are 3 choices:
1) Author fix it and for me it's simple fix
2) I try to fix it in his code and i don't know what's going on there so it will take me ages to do so :-)
3) I write my own approach to read the .inf files instead of using _IniReadSection.

I would prefer 1st option, as 2nd and 3rd considering a lot of projects i am thrown at I can't quick fix.

Hope you understand that. Sorry

[cdusseau]

Well if you do get around to fixing it I'd appreciate it. If not, I understand. I'm looking into some alternatives on the driverpacks forum.

[recon]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get this tool working on my laptop, which is a dell latitude d620.
If everything is working ok i'm planning to use this tool to install drivers when deploying images.

For my test machine, i've downloaded every driver from the dell site and unpacked the exe's.
After that i changed some settings in hardware_config.xml like the driver path.

Now i've started pro hardware installer.
The first driver it installed was the VGA driver, but after that the tool was just sitting there and doing nothing...
After 10 minutes of waiting i stopped the program.

I have included my xml file and a screenshot.
What am i doing wrong?

Thanks :-)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<settings>
  <basic_configuration>
    <choice>Automatic</choice>
    <window_managing>
        <hardware_wizard>
            <wizard_use>Yes</wizard_use>
            <wizard_title>Found New Hardware Wizard</wizard_title>
            <wizard_button_cancel>Cancel</wizard_button_cancel>
            <wizard_button_next>Next</wizard_button_next>
            <wizard_button_finish>Finish</wizard_button_finish>
        </hardware_wizard>
    </window_managing>
    <share_configuration>
        <use_mapping>No</use_mapping>
        <map_network_drive>    
            <drive_1>
                <share_path>\\127.0.0.1\c$</share_path>
                <domain_username>EM\MadBoy</domain_username>
                <domain_password>SuperPass</domain_password>
            </drive_1>
        </map_network_drive>
    </share_configuration>
    <drivers>
          <drivers_method>New</drivers_method>
          <drivers_database_use>No</drivers_database_use>
          <drivers_database_recreate>No</drivers_database_recreate>
          <drivers_database_path>D:\Drivers\hardware_database.db</drivers_database_path>
          <drivers_directory_path>D:\Drivers</drivers_directory_path>
          <drivers_packed>No</drivers_packed>
          <drivers_copy>No</drivers_copy>
          <drivers_copy_path>C:\Drivers</drivers_copy_path>
          <drivers_copy_delete>No</drivers_copy_delete>
          <options>
              <method>RegistryDevicePath</method>
              <registry_path>Begin</registry_path>
              <problem_ids>01,10,18,24,28,37,39</problem_ids>
              <update_all>Yes</update_all>
              <plug_and_play>
                    <option>Internal</option>
                    <time_to_wait>5</time_to_wait>
              </plug_and_play>
              <shutdown>
                    <auto_reboot_when_necessary>No</auto_reboot_when_necessary>
                    <auto_reboot_when_done>No</auto_reboot_when_done>
                    <auto_login>Yes</auto_login>
                    <notify_when_done>Yes</notify_when_done>
              </shutdown>
              <time_to_run>0</time_to_run>
              <force_run>Yes</force_run>
              <device_manager>Yes</device_manager>
          </options>
    </drivers>
    <log>
          <log_overwrite>Yes</log_overwrite>
          <log_to_file>Yes</log_to_file>
          <log_filename_path>$ProgramDir\hardware.log</log_filename_path>
          <log_option>Simple</log_option>
    </log>
    <gui>
          <hide_legacy_devices>No</hide_legacy_devices>
          <fade_in_effect>No</fade_in_effect>
          <hide_views>No</hide_views>
    </gui>
  </basic_configuration>
</settings>

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[MadBoy]

Everything seems correct. Program found 5 of 6 inf files for your devices, removed 6 HW devices.

[20:11:08] - Unknown devices were removed successfully.
[20:11:08] - [INFO] Enabling Window Managing Wizard
[20:11:08] - Forcing system to detect Plug & Play Devices.
[20:11:10] - System is now detecting and installing drivers for your hardware. Please wait!

Only thing that could go wrong is Detecting and installing drivers. Can you try when it's stuck at that stage to go to device manager and click Scan for hardware changes. If detection starts and works that means something went wrong at that stage.

[recon]

MadBoy, on 30 October 2010 - 03:01 PM, said:

Everything seems correct. Program found 5 of 6 inf files for your devices, removed 6 HW devices.

[20:11:08] - Unknown devices were removed successfully.
[20:11:08] - [INFO] Enabling Window Managing Wizard
[20:11:08] - Forcing system to detect Plug & Play Devices.
[20:11:10] - System is now detecting and installing drivers for your hardware. Please wait!

Only thing that could go wrong is Detecting and installing drivers. Can you try when it's stuck at that stage to go to device manager and click Scan for hardware changes. If detection starts and works that means something went wrong at that stage.

When doing a scan for hardware changes it refreshes the device manager list, but nothing happens after that.
What i've noticed is. It first starts with the VGA card, but when it found a driver it says Mobile Intel.... expres chipset.
Also when i look under Display adapters it has one device named Mobile Intel 945GM express chipset familiy, i think this is wrong because there is still a video controller in the other devices list.

Also when it has installed this driver a device with a strange name appears in the other devices list... -> JW804/7?... you can see it on the screenshot.

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