Recent content by Rhughes103

I've had issues with the realtek drivers as well. What I've found works is not to import the INF file with component designer. Instead create a new component from scratch, add all the files needed making sure they are placed in the proper folder, and the inf file is in windows\inf. Add...

For your thumbdrives make sure you include the USB Mass Storage Device driver under Hardware. As to your drivers not installing properly, double check where the files are being placed. Especially the INF, which should be under Windows\INF. Look for any errors in the FBA log file that...

Ya some manuf's neglect to put in the NT.5.1 section in the inf that it looks for. Sounds like you got it licked though.

That be them. Though there's no need to create a component for the Microsoft UAA driver. That should already be in the base database or one of the feature updates. The fact that the icon is greyed out means you have a newer version already. :)

After you import the driver's inf file into component designer, expand the components it creates and look at the file requirements for each component. Gather all those files into a single folder, preferably near where the component file is saved. Back in component designer, under the...

There are numerous possibilities for your issue. Did you create a repository for the driver's files and point each component to that repository? Did you remember to import those new driver components into your embedded database? Add them to the build in Target Designer? Look for any errors...

I believe you're thinking of the TMD fans (Tip Magnetic Drive) which had the windings for the motor in the housing of the fan and the magnet on a ring around the edge of the fan blade. Made for a smaller central hub since there was only a bearing there.

What you described is pretty much par for course in my experience. And I build and sell the very type of systems you're talking about. My company does not install them however, they are sold to intermediary companies who sell and install the systems. And in almost every case I've found thier...

Download a copy of the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Vista or Win7 and read up how to make a WinPE bootable disc with Imagex. You can make a disc that will boot WinPE into ram, where you can use diskpart to partition your disks, and imagex to create or restore wim files. Even...

In my experience boot times can be kept under 2 minutes, and read performance will be the most important toward usability. Booting from any flash media you'd want to use the write filter to protect it against unneeded writes, once the os and your app is loaded in memory the only noticeable...

You could look into Windows XP Embedded (or Windows Embedded Standard as it's known now). Booting from a USB flash drive is one of the major features introduced in the previous iteration of the OS. Performance is up to the read/write speeds of the drive you use, and proper motherboard bios...

Yea CE is a bit more of a bear that I haven't tackled yet. But XP Embedded is literally nothing more than XP Pro. They just divided it up into the procompiled binaries for each feature of the operating system and allow you to decide what you want in the OS image. The size of the image will...

A little misinformation in here, just for the record, XP Embedded is just as fully capable as XP Professional and has a few new tricks up it's sleeve as well. It runs with same precompiled drivers and software used with Pro. But it is dependant on wether the proper support has been added into...