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Posted 21 August 2003 - 12:26 PM

Is there a way to force an xp unattended install to install the driver you want even if it would rather install it's own which it 'thinks' is better?
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Posted 21 August 2003 - 05:48 PM

Windows will always choose the driver which it thinks is better, when presented with a choice. I guess the way to get around that, would be to eliminate the other options.

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Posted 22 August 2003 - 10:49 AM

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Do you mean find and remove them from drivers.cab? I'm a bit scared to do that! I'm sure I read something once about forcing it to accept a driver but I can't think where it was.

Thanks for helping.

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Posted 22 August 2003 - 11:47 AM

I'm not sure why you would need to. Just add these two lines to your winnt.sif

[Unattended]
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\radeon-cat3_6\2KXP_INF;Drivers\radeon-cat3_6\TV_Capture\WDM_XP;
Drivers\nforce;Drivers\nforce\AudioDRV;Drivers\nforce\AudioUtl;Drivers\nforce\Display;Drivers\nforce\Ethernet;
Drivers\nforce\GART;Drivers\nforce\IDE;Drivers\nforce\MemCtl;Drivers\nforce\SMBus;Drivers\nforce\USB;
Drivers\Promise_sata;Drivers\SI_rdvr;Drivers\hpt372;Drivers\4in1442v;Drivers\4in1442v\AGP;
Drivers\4in1442v\AGP33;Drivers\4in1442v\AgpME;Drivers\4in1442v\IDEWinXP;Drivers\4in1442v\Inf;
Drivers\4in1442v\IRQ;Drivers\4in1442v\Pfd;Drivers\4in1442v\WinXP;Drivers\VIA-VT6103;Drivers\wdm;Drivers\wdm\wdm;"

The second one whould be all on one line with no carrage returns

The first line will tell windows to use them even if they are not signed.

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Posted 22 August 2003 - 12:14 PM

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I'm not sure why you would need to.

The xp driver for my cheap graphics card has no gamma control which I need or everything is too dark. I have to use an older win2000 driver.

I have "OemPnPDriversPath=" set up to point to the driver but it doesn't install because the xp one is considered newer. Driver signing policy is not the problem here but thanks all the same.

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