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Dietmar

Posts:70

05/29/2008 7:49 AM
Hallo! We deploy Windows XP with ZTI. To deploy the drivers we use the DriverPath1 variable in Model sections in CustomSettings.ini. This works fine. However, we have Acer TravelMate 290 notebooks with ATI videocontroller and Intel videocontroller. The TM290 with ATI use a Synaptics pointing device driver and the one with Intel use an ALPS pointing device driver which are not compatible. In this case the method with the %Model% do not work. I tried to install the device drivers as an application with the following option: If all conditions are true Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem where Model = "TravelMate 290" Select * from Win32_VideoController where Description like "Intel%" But this do not work. I don´t know how to deploy the right pointing device driver in this case? Can you help? Thanks Dietmar

Dietmar

Posts:70

05/29/2008 2:16 PM
Hi! In general: is it possible to add two of WMI queries to a If-group? The task sequencer ignores this task and write really nothing to log files.

Dietmar

Posts:70

05/29/2008 3:01 PM
Is it possible to set the DriverPaths1 variable via task sequence? Because the notebooks are a little bit different in serial number. The notebook with the Intel videocontroller starts with LXT35... and the one with ATI videocontroller starts with LXT44... But this could be a way to install the driver as application with only one WMI query without the if-group. WMI query SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE SerialNumber LIKE "%LXT35%"? I will try and tell you.

Dietmar

Posts:70

05/30/2008 3:24 AM
I solved my problem in this way: I added a group in task sequencer called "Install Acer TM290 Pointing Device Driver" with the following condition: "Task sequence variable Model equals TravelMate 290". In this group I added the different pointing device drivers as applications with the following conditions: "WMI query SELECT * FROM Win32_VideoController WHERE Description LIKE "%Intel%" for ALPS driver and "WMI query SELECT * FROM Win32_VideoController WHERE Description LIKE "%ATI%" for Synaptics driver. This way runs fine with the Intel videocontroller. The notebook with ATI videocontroller is being installed at the moment but I think it will work. I think there are more people with problems like this out there and I hope this will help.

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