Hello again all @ MDL have ran into a small problem on a friend's computer and it has me stumped his machine is an old Elonex system and he has the system and recovery disk" will supply if needed to MDL admin's " but when i run it it say's an error on the winnt.sif file ... now I fixed it by making another winnt.sif file and it worked.. after 7 hour's 15 cup's of coffee and the internet is there anyway of removing the winnt.sif file altogether without getting an error ... in fact is there a way not to have any answer file at all and have install attended then it would make my life a lot simpler in the long run Admin's send me pm for Elonex cd - but you will have to tell me how to upload asI have no idea on how to upload and i dont trust the megaupload site's and others... made a copy myself so no rush
No need to upload it anywhere. Just build an iso after the original cd and edit it with Ultraiso or Poweriso and replace winnt.sif with the one you you made. Save it to a new image and burn it. You can keep out winnt.sif altogether and the setup will run normal, but you'll have to enter the product key and press a few 'nexts'. I'd say you keep it as it'll make your life easier. And you don't want 7 hours of hard work thrown away, would you? Just see what's inside the old winnt.sif as it might have some lines concerning windows themes that might be on the cd. Otherwise you're safe.
yes thats what i have done - but just wanted to know if it could be deleted and have no problem's or whether it's hard coded into the system when it was first done with sysprep... thankyou for your reply kukubau
delete it and you will have to enter all as prompted...It is most certainly not necessary for the install.
911medic wish it was that simple - the winnt.sif file could not be read from when I was installing. so I deleted it and it was still the same. "error cannot read winnt.sif" then I coped the default one off the elonex cd removed the userdata and then it worked as expected
I've spent several years learning XP unattended stuff and I got pretty good at it, so I can tell you it's a fact that winnt.sif is not needed. All it does is give setup the info it's looking for. If you get an error without it, then there's another file making a call to it for some reason, which isn't right. At least you got it working. That's what counts. Good job.
But if the file is not there when called for it will give you an error and will not continue to install -remember that this is not from scratch this is already sys preped recovery disk and the file winnt.sif file was corrupt so then I deleted it and then it gave me an error saying can not read or find winnt.sif ... anyway I did get it sorted yes
You have an original Elonex disk ? any chance of getting 4 files OEMBIOS.BI_ OEMBIOS.CA_ OEMBIOS.DA_ OEMBIOS.SI_ Size 12.5 MB
I was after the Elonex OEM files as they aren't on any of the online repositories thought it would be nice to have them released.
All i can suggest is P.M. 3sidedcube and ask if he would upload them. Also did you actually run oembios.exe to see what manufacturer strings are there you may not need Elonex.
Probably FIC if I remember correctly. FIC is (was) heavy in the education market and ELONEX used these boards for a while.
911medic, hopefully we will know eventually first thing i told him was run oembios.exe mentioned it twice now
It's actually an MSI Board and OEMBIOS.exe comes up with nothing well its got an E:HP & Compaq OEMBIOS.cat but thats from the Disk I used to install from. DMI SYSTEM>Manufacturer Name: Elonex PLC Base Board>Manufacturer Name: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD Enclosure/Chassis>Manufacturer Name: Elonex PLC So I'm guessing OEMBIOS.exe should have reported "Elonex PLC"
Only if the Elonex string is in the program's data and then only if the Elonex string is in the correct address range. Just because the strings are in DMI do not mean they are valid. Easy enough to change the string to any string valid in the DMI range (if you need to).
@ Bovski, ok you have grasped the whole concept so try MSi you still did not post CRC: anyway just use HP dmi tattoo cd write HP and be done no worries.
The CRC of What ? the HP files from the Install CD ? CD4E1902 Guys you are missing the point I know how to re-brand the motherboard but as someone had posted that they had an original Elonex CD I thought it would be nice to get the files released so they could be added to the repositories.
In an ideal world yes but since the files have not been uploaded then just do what you need to do to get it working. it will never get knocked out via M$ validation e.c.t
Yes i do have the 4 files that you are asking for - Do you know a way to upload to a site via private proxies or bounce of another ip addy . Not at all being paranoid....
Here are the CRC check for the files oembios.bin CRC32: 777BA240 MD5: 8531189D74A8373173544680A71A7BBB SHA-1: 38DFF02DC85D8069332103AD72385C57C5A1E354 oembios CRC32: 81DEFFBE MD5: 940787F758EE2248CBF21A2CAC3299DC SHA-1: 1A67CFF26BC4C78A93031768DF18C6E632FFA8C1 oembios.dat CRC32: 4569705B MD5: 3DA8D4480449460AE4832ED33C863F63 SHA-1: AF01CB94E8750D15BFACFFD0542E9B3133B47C52 oembios.sig CRC32: A8F6669E MD5: DBF7C02B6C8405077A4B24FC19BF5D36 SHA-1: BE5F9FA369514015DC907E0CEFD08BE35AB72444 OEMINFO CRC32: 4FD5F23B MD5: AB8B437CB0F64343B99E4751D9820C9A SHA-1: 986F0D32457877CA707CCFD20C41C53EDD50C88F OEMLOGO CRC32: 426FD0E7 MD5: 4C3D4FF8A57353E0D99538B6E40236F2 SHA-1: B922A2DA78CBDB759C1AFEB444514FF06432DEAD WINNT.SIF CRC32: 18F22488 MD5: 5DEF696F11642110B5B026F650709AE0 SHA-1: E3018245BF7A5B0D446866D6B116DE9851CF020B All files are from the oem $$ dir off the disk the last three files can be ignored just put them here for refference. Just another thought the way I did a mod was to use the original Bios from the manufacture and then use one of the bios mod tools the one for the motherboard you are using "i.e AMI or Award" and use the tool to insert any slp/slic string in the bios. and then use the same manufacure bios util " i.e the bios update tool for your motherboard" to put the moded file of the bios file that you created from the mod tool for inserting the slp/slic string. If on the other hand and you are compleatly lost with what I have said then you need to read more on this site!!!