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Question about Slipstreaming

MichaelD

MichaelD

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Before I bork something up, I might as well ask. 😱

If I slipstream motherboard drivers (chipset/LAN/sound/video) into a WinXP CD, is that WinXP CD then only good for that particular motherboard?

IOW, into the same CD, can I load drivers for:

A NVidia MB with a NVidia graphics card
An Intel MB with an ATI graphics card
A mini-ITX MB with onboard VGA

Or will that screw something up? Thanks for the help!
 
I wouldn't load different drivers for multiple motherboards. When you slipstream drivers, you define every single driver and what it is used for (I slipstream SP2 & Areca RAID drivers). I'm not sure how it would react having multiple drivers defined. You can always try it once and see what happens. If it doesn't work, reformat with another disk prepared with just one set of drivers on it.
 
Thanks much, FC. That's kind of what I was thinking, though I wanted some clarification.

On another note: What do you know about partitioning the HD in Nlite? I don't see an option to do that. How do I get partitions on a new HD or redo the partitions on an existing drive in Nlite?
 
I actually did this last night... weird huh?

You still get the partitioning page, and then once the system restarts, it is unattended if you choose to make it that way.
 
Originally posted by: TheStu
I actually did this last night... weird huh?

You still get the partitioning page, and then once the system restarts, it is unattended if you choose to make it that way.
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Weird indeed...but how convenient! 😀

That's my answer! Thanks, TheStu. What's weird is that nLite gave me an error message "Your I386 folder is corrupted...get a new CD if you get errors" or words to that effect.

I've used this CD many times and have no issues. 😕 The CD is a slipstreamed SP2 CD...it works fine.

*shrug* I'll just go w/it and see what happens.

Did you slipstream SATA drivers, BTW? Just the .inf's? How did it go for you?
 
I have never slipstreamed drivers into a CD before but I figured they all got packed into the driver.cab file and Windows would load the relevant drivers? I mean, there are already thousands of drivers in the main drivers cabinet - what's a few extra updated drivers?
 
Windows already has a handful of drivers on the disc, adding another one won't change how it detects hardware and decides which drivers to use.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Windows already has a handful of drivers on the disc, adding another one won't change how it detects hardware and decides which drivers to use.
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But if that was true, then what you're saying defeats the entire purpose of slipstreaming. 😕 Especially when it comes to SATA drivers.

The purpose of slipstreaming SATA drivers into the Windows install is so that Windows Setup will see your SATA drive during the setup routine when Windows is looking for a hard drive to install to.

Also, by slipstreaming other drivers like LAN/video/etc, they are already there when you boot up the first time; no having to manually load anything anymore.

At least that's the theory; I've not tested this slipstreamed copy of XP in my new system (mini-ITX) yet b/c I'm still waiting on the case/ps to get here.

We'll see what happens.
 
But if that was true, then what you're saying defeats the entire purpose of slipstreaming
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Not at all. No matter what drivers are on the disc Windows uses the same hardware detection routines to decide which driver to use, slipstreaming a driver onto the disc just gives Windows one more driver from which to choose.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Windows already has a handful of drivers on the disc, adding another one won't change how it detects hardware and decides which drivers to use.
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Incorrect, Windows XP can't be installed on intel AHCI controllers unless drivers are provided during installation. This is casual problem people encounter when trying to downgrade their laptops from Vista to XP.

Slipstreaming adds the drivers to XP database and XP setup actually installs them.

This is the way I installed XP on my P35 mobo with intel RAID ICH9R without floppy connector.

 
You're not reading what I wrote. The hardware detection routines are exactly the same, the only thing changed when you slipstream a driver is that the list of available drivers becomes larger.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
You're not reading what I wrote. The hardware detection routines are exactly the same, the only thing changed when you slipstream a driver is that the list of available drivers becomes larger.
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Ah, got it now. And yes; I agree with you. We were just saying it differently. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
You're not reading what I wrote. The hardware detection routines are exactly the same, the only thing changed when you slipstream a driver is that the list of available drivers becomes larger.
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Which is crucial to install XP like I stated.

I don't care about 100,000 available drivers for hardware that I don't possess if drivers for disk controller aren't available.
 
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