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Windows 7 RTM Can Render DVD Drives Inaccessible

SubKi||er — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:01:30 +0800

Sauce: Here

Happened to own a brand new Acer Aspire 4736 which came with a TSSTcorp TS-L633B drive which break after Windows 7 is installed. Initially thought that the drive was wrong so brought the laptop back to the shop where i bought it and the ~~stupid~~ technician was blaming me for using a wrong build of Windows 7 until he got frustrated with the way i question him and he changed topic with a "Why not you leave your laptop here and let us check?"

Anyway, it was a long story from there and for anyone who happens to have the same problems, i flashed my drive with a new SC01 firmware from the initial AC01 and the drive worked straight away. Anyone who have the same problems and wants me to give a little guide can ask from me in this thread and i'll try my best to guide you.

Installing XP with MassStorage(SATA/RAID) Drivers

SubKi||er — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:12:15 +0800

Updated : Small note (01st July 09)

!! Please try slipstreaming your XP Setup disc with SP3 and try the setup again before attempting anything below as SP3 setup seems to work fine for most people. !!

There is 3 part of the guide :

Slipsteam the RAID/SATA drivers to the XP Setup and create an updated driver setup disc
Load the SATA/RAID drivers from floppy (USB Floppy needed for laptops)
Slipstream only needed driver to the disc using nLite (Not providing help for this one since not written by me & credits to zea)

Slipsteam the RAID/SATA drivers to the XP Setup and create an updated driver setup disc

! I would recommend that if possible use a CD-RW for your work unless of course you don't mind throwing a CD in case something mess up !

! As to simplify most of the errors that i get through PM, I recommend you to use the vanilla version of Windows XP aka clean setup itself without slipstreams. Avoid any "D3vil SP3 Edition" or such. This is due to the fact that some of these CD might have already been slipstreamed with drivers before and the tools listed here might not recognise the previous slipstreamer and mess up the CD. !

There is an increasing amount of thread on the matter and wish that i could be of some help and solve it easy way. I dare not put this in the Guide section so hopefully if its not appropriate here too, Mods please delete the thread or move it elsewhere. Thanks.

Opening :
Even with the existance of Windows Vista, XP nonetheless is still the choice of OS for a lot of people for now. But because of how old XP is to date and with the emerging of new technologies, the original drivers that came with the XP Setup itself is almost obsolete.

To cut the crap short, laptop doesn't have a floppy drive and XP is unable to load SATA/RAID drivers from another location besides floppy. Of course, not all laptop BIOSes can enable native SATA to emulate PATA hence the existance of this guide. So the only ways to install XP on your ub3r new laptop that runs SATA HDD would be to update the driver database in XP Setup itself.

Tools needed :

Windows XP Setup CD
DriverPack
CDIMAGE GUI (http://unattended.msfn.org/files/global/CDIMAGE_GUI.EXE)(Copy and paste link in new window)
CD/DVD Burner to burn CD

How-to :
First of all, copy the contents of your CD to a working path, in this case i'll use C:\WINXP

Download DriverPack BASE from the link above as well as DriverPack MassStorage. Extract the BASE pack into a new folder and put the MassStorage pack you downloaded into the DriverPacks folder.

Run DriverPack...

Select "disc" and choose "Browse". Browse the folder which you copied from the CD earlier and in this case it would be my C:\WINXP.

If the setting is grey out like the image below :

The solution : DO NOT extract the downloaded files into DriverPacks folder. Leave intact as is (i.e. copy that archive into DriverPacks folder). The DPs_BASE will automatically do the extraction. See the image below :

QUOTE(SubKi||er)

..put the MassStorage pack you downloaded into the DriverPacks folder.

If you do it right, you can have the selection as below :

Credits: keyz

Execute DPs_BASE.exe and use the installation platform selected to disc. Browse to the XP working directory you copied from the CD just now, in my case C:\WINXP earlier. Select the DriverPacks list that will appear after loading the working directory and put a check mark on DriverPack MassStorage. Put a tick in the box which says "DriverPack MassStorage text mode". Leave all the other settings as it is if you don't know what is it for.

After you're done with everything, hit the SlipStream! button and wait for the process to finish. The process should finish in around 10 minutes. After the slipstream process is finish, proceed by downloading CDIMAGE GUI. Extract and run the application, only change the "Root DIR" to your working directory in my case C:\WINXP and the "Iso file Path" to where you want to save the ISO file generated.

Select the boot.img file to load the bootable image into the ISO file.

Leave all other settings intact as it should unless you know what its doing. (Thanks Sk8teR)

After the ISO file is generated, burn it with any burning software to a CD and proceed with booting the setup. Your SATA hard drive should be recognised now without the need to press F6 and load drivers.

The DriverPack should contain most SATA/RAID device drivers so it should work on most computers.

The End.

Wordpress 2.1.1

SubKi||er — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:50:31 +0800

I'm not very sure where this should go but if its un-appropriate here, please move it for me. Thanks

If any bloggers are running Wordpress 2.1.1 currently, please upgrade to the latest version for your safety.

QUOTE

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.

It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file. We have locked down that server for further forensics, but at this time it appears that the 2.1.1 download was the only thing touched by the attack. They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution.

Quoted from Wordpress.org

Upgrade : http://wordpress.org/download/

Zip Attachments

SubKi||er — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:48:41 +0800

Anyone having problems with attaching Zip files to any topic? It seems that it corrupts the Zip archive especially those attaching logs in the Technical Support forum.

Admin wanna check ?

F.E.A.R Combat

SubKi||er — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:15:38 +0800

In case i didn't get this at the right place or i missed a topic created by someone else before me, Mods do your thing ya

F.E.A.R Combat is a multiplayer rename for F.E.A.R and sierra announced that they will give out free downloads to the full version of the game on 19th August 2006.

That would be around 8 days 2 hours 46 minutes and 37 seconds from the time i posted

More information from this site including signing up for their newsletter for the announcement of the release of the game.

http://www.joinfear.com/us/

Never played F.E.A.R before since my laptop won't run i think. But was waiting for it to be released the first time.

PSU or Mobo ?

SubKi||er — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:20:09 +0800

I need some help here...

My desktop was working fine yesterday for a whole day until it was turned off last night. This morning my sister wanted to turn it on but everything is started but the monitor is still in standby mode. I took the side panel off and all the fans are running but the LED light and HDD light are not on.

It is an intergrated graphics Celeron 2.0Ghz. I broke the wire to the buzzer so i'm not very sure if there is any beeping going on but the motherboard was RMAed around half a year ago with a long beep and they said it was motherboard problem.

My current assumption would be a faulty PSU which might not be supplying enough power to the motherboard itself causing the motherboard to only be powered halfly or the motherboard is once again dead. I need to have some suggestions here as i don't have any parts to test it with before i go buy anything