Re: Frequent change in motherboard

Hi Saravanan,

one more note to Rich and Richard's one:

we use image that suits many boards. The main problem is drivers, but if you stay on Intel chipset, there not so many places to concern:
Video
Sound
Network

Sound changes not so often, so I've added some Realtek drivers and it suits well.

Network - I know 4 wired NICs brands that are usually used: Intel, Broadcom, Realtek and Marvell. Luckily they drivers are backward compatible, so I just added them all and update from time to time in the released build (without rebuilding in XPe).

Video - nVidia driver (as we uses sometimes external video boards) is perfectly integrated and suitable for most nVidia cards.
ATi and Intel - they have 3 different drivers and I have to choose one of those on the fly. I wrote a small application that checks registry for VEN_xxxx and DEV_xxxx for the video and unpack to the System32 a necessary driver. Then next reboot machine gets video properly.

So I have to maintain 3 builds (for P3, for P4 and for Xeon based machines - well, I probably can get rid of P3 and Xeon, as XPeSP2 boots well on those even if it has different HAL), and I'm quite sure that on 99% of Intel based boards my build will boot and install most of drivers. Once or two time per year I have to update drivers, but it takes less than a day.

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Nikolai Vorontsov
Quadrox NV


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