ris black screen

[Barry]

Hello

I'm getting a Black screen after having used ris to install xp sp1 to an hp
d230. It worked fine so far as I can tell, and it can boot into safe mode
fine, all drivers are ok according to devman whilst in safe mode. However,
safe mode with networking doesnt work either. On a boot it will show the
initial splash with the moving progress bar, then display a black screen and
go no further. The monitor stays at the same refresh rate as the splash
screen and it just seems to hang.

It still hangs in the same way if I delete the network driver and disable
the (onboard) card in the bios.

I'm assuming that because safe mode works fine, that it must be a driver
issue, and because safemode with networking doesn't work, that it must be
the nic. But disabling it doesnt solve the problem either... Also, as I've
said, in safe mode all the drivers are loaded fine. But I guess it doesn;t
load them all anyway.

Anyone any ideas how I can figure out waht driver is causing this issue??

Cheers!
Barry

 

[Barry]

As an update, i used the restore CDs on the PC to fresh install it. afaik
this is just a sysprep image... I then did shift+F10 to get the command
prompt, and backed up all the drivers and sysprep info and continued the
install. Once complete, i copied all the drivers accross to my RIS server
and RISsed the PC using the same drivers. I still get the black screen
problem! Very confused as this has ruled out a driver issue now... Anyone
got any ideas? It works fine after using the restore cds

Confused...

 

[NIC Student]

It sounds me like it *is* a driver issue. Set up the video drivers as third
party drivers. Refer to the RIS section of the article below:

How to Add OEM Plug and Play Drivers to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314479&Product=winxp

--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE


"Barry"

 

[Barry]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion but thats exactly what I have done, using the
drivers that HP supplied in *their* sysprepped image, still no joy. I've
even updated them in safe mode pointing them to the HP CD, and that doesnt
solve it!

Like I say, safe mode is fine.... Confused!

Barry

 

[NIC Student]

That's frustrating, Barry.

I suggest going to hp.com and getting the latest video drivers, then install
them on the client pc. Once you are satisfied that they work, RIPREP your
image to the RIS server. It seems the cd-based drivers are not fully
compatible and the RIS keeps grabbing the older ones even though you have
added the newer ones to the $oem$ folder.

You didn't mention if you are using RIPREP images or CD-based images, but if
the RIPREP image works then you won't have to change the cd-based i386 and
possible overwrite existing drivers that are fine for most installs. If you
do change the i386 drivers, don't overwrite the drivers that are already
there, rename them instead so you can quickly restore the setup if it
breaks other images. I learned that the hard way, believe me.

--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE



"Barry"