Another INF question

NTDEV
1

I have a customer complaint on device install on Win2k:
The customer installs a PCI card of type X, the system
asks for the install disk, and everything is fine. Some
time later another PCI card of type X is installed, and
the system wants the install disk again. The customer
is asking is the away to get the system not to ask for
the install disk, when installing an identical card to
one running on the system?

Don Burn

2

Normally the INF (and PNF) file are stored in %systemroot%\inf (as OEMxx)
and Win2K remembers where it got the file from. Whenever I’ve added a new
type where the driver was already available, Win2K has re-instantiated the
existing driver without a problem. However, I’ve normally installed drivers
from a network share, which might make a difference…

Regards,

Paul Bunn, UltraBac.com, 425-644-6000
Microsoft MVP - WindowsNT/2000
http://www.ultrabac.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Burn [mailto:xxxxx@acm.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:38 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Another INF question

I have a customer complaint on device install on Win2k:
The customer installs a PCI card of type X, the system
asks for the install disk, and everything is fine. Some
time later another PCI card of type X is installed, and
the system wants the install disk again. The customer
is asking is the away to get the system not to ask for
the install disk, when installing an identical card to
one running on the system?