Windows XP unattended install keeps asking for Plug and Play monitor driver
As far as I know the majority of businesses using the Windows platform are still using Windows XP and haven’t made the move to Windows Vista yet. If this is the case in your environment there’s a good chance you’re using some sort of deployment tool to manage desktop/laptop rollouts. Sometimes, though, you receive a message during the Windows XP unattended install asking for a driver for the ‘Plug and Play Monitor’. Here’s why.
This is caused by a problem with the vendor-provided Video.inf file. The Microsoft knowledge base article that I’ll talk about in a minute says "If a driver is signed, but the driver does not include an .inf file that describes child devices, such as monitors, the installation may stop responding."
The fix is get the hotfix mentioned in Microsoft knowledge base article KB883667 and integrate it into your Windows XP source directory. The hotfix is freely available but you have to ask for it to be emailed to you.
Once you’ve got the patch it’s simply a case of integrating the updated files into your Windows XP installation source. Let’s assume your Windows XP installation source is located in C:\Source\WindowsXP with the actual files being in C:\Source\WindowsXP\i386 (that will make sense in a minute). The patch executable WindowsXP-KB883667-x86-enu.exe is located in C:\Source\Hotfixes.
1. Open a command prompt and navigate to C:\Source\Hotfixes
2. Run the following command.
WindowsXP-KB883667-x86-enu.exe /integrate:C:\Source\WindowsXP |
It’s important that you don’t put the i386 part on the end of the specified directory above as the integrated installation will look in C:\Source\WindowsXP for a directory called i386 that contains the required installation files.
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