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June 18th, 2004 21:00

Chipset update for Precision 360 using RIS

Is this similar to updating the device drivers using the $OEM$\$1 folder and configuring the answer file?  I've use my RIS server to install Windows XP and have sucessfully upgraded both the video card and integrated audio drivers, but I continue to have an error in device manager for SM Bus controller.  If I manually install the XP chipset update, it clears the error in the device manager.   I've created a $OEM$\$1\chipset folder similar to the video and audio card and added all the files and .cat files in the XP folder, but it doesn't appear to install it.   

Thanks for the help

  • NordicL2

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    Posted July 6th, 2004 13:00

    Have you extracted the INF files from the chipset driver? Using Intel's chipset driver?

    Extract with the following parameter:

    setup.exe -a -p c:\inf

    or

    infinst.exe -a -a -p c:\inf

    if you haven't extracted the setup.exe file from the infinst.exe compressed file.

    When the setuo runs, just click next and the files with extracted INF files is available in c:\inf

  • ta79rich

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    Posted July 8th, 2004 22:00

    Thanks for the info...the chipset update now works using RIS.  I was able to extract setup.exe into the temp location and then copy those .cat files and .inf files into my $OEM$\$1\drivers\360\chipset folder.  After some trial and error, I was able to get the correct files.  I first added all the .cat files for the chipset download from Dell.  I then expanded setup.exe, which actually gave me several folders (ie. ich, ich2, ich2-m...ICH5) and with those folder were sub-folders labeled, Win2k, Win98se, WinMe, WinXP.  All but one folder had a WinXP sub-folder.   Since I didn't know which folder to use other than WinXP, I copied over the additional .cat and .inf files from each WinXP folder and then attempted to RIS the system.  I'd check the device manager and see if cleared the error.  After 4 or 5 tries, I got the right folder.  Sorry, not sure which one though.  While copying files into my chipset folder, I did notice many times I was most likely writting over the indentical files.  I seem to be adding additional files though.  There are a couple of readme docs within the extracted folder, but not on the differences between the various WinXP .inf/.cat files.  One file is a log file and the other is good information about the RIS chipset update.  The OS folders also contain sample answer files with the chipset update.