I downloaded the entire offline installer package and put it on a usb drive with easy2boot for installing windows xp. It's fantastic for setting up offline systems and knocking out those obscure chipset drivers that can be such a pain. Had pretty mixed results with Audigy or SBLive drivers though.

Namrok wrote on 2022-12-15, 20:42:

I downloaded the entire offline installer package and put it on a usb drive with easy2boot for installing windows xp. It's fantastic for setting up offline systems and knocking out those obscure chipset drivers that can be such a pain. Had pretty mixed results with Audigy or SBLive drivers though.

Any downsides - bombarded with advertising or had a virus mishap?

No ads I can recall. The systems are all airgapped so I'm rather careless about viruses. So no viruses I've noticed, but I don't look too hard.

in my experience, it is very good - no issues at all.

99% of the time it works fine. there is the odd time that a driver it installs is buggy though and can brick things.

some drivers its better to install manually are things like gpu. also sometimes its best not to mess with Raid/Sata/ide drivers as if the wrong or a buggy driver is installed it can sometimes brick ur install and then u gotta start over from scratch.

u can use it for anything from windows xp all the way to windows 11. not sure if it works on windows 2000 i never tired that. it def don't work on any windows 9x systems unfortunately.

mihai wrote on 2022-12-15, 20:59:

in my experience, it is very good - no issues at all.

Great... Thanks

aaron158 wrote on 2022-12-16, 18:05:

99% of the time it works fine. there is the odd time that a driver it installs is buggy though and can brick things.
some drivers its better to install manually are things like gpu. also sometimes its best not to mess with Raid/Sata/ide drivers as if the wrong or a buggy driver is installed it can sometimes brick ur install and then u gotta start over from scratch.
u can use it for anything from windows xp all the way to windows 11. not sure if it works on windows 2000 i never tired that. it def don't work on any windows 9x systems unfortunately.

Overall people are sounding positive then... Thanks

Namrok wrote on 2022-12-15, 20:52:

The systems are all airgapped so I'm rather careless about viruses.

I used to feel this way until I chased around a data corruption issue on my systems for years that was related to a virus infecting every EXE I ran.

Namrok wrote on 2022-12-15, 20:42:

I downloaded the entire offline installer package and put it on a usb drive with easy2boot for installing windows xp. It's fantastic for setting up offline systems and knocking out those obscure chipset drivers that can be such a pain. Had pretty mixed results with Audigy or SBLive drivers though.

Hmm review says: "the SDI_RUS file was 17.4Gb to download" Guess that may not work well for many XP systems.
Is this whole topic a promotion/spam post ?

Horun wrote on 2022-12-17, 04:24:

Namrok wrote on 2022-12-15, 20:42:

I downloaded the entire offline installer package and put it on a usb drive with easy2boot for installing windows xp. It's fantastic for setting up offline systems and knocking out those obscure chipset drivers that can be such a pain. Had pretty mixed results with Audigy or SBLive drivers though.

Is this whole topic a promotion/spam post ?

I was thinking the same thing, 🤣.

I use it. The package has drivers for XP on up, so they take up space.
Never noticed advertisement or stuff like that using it.

I dont know if promotional post or not. I will just say that PhilsComputerLab uses it in 1 or more videos so I would suggest its going to get more traction from him than this forum post..?

Horun wrote on 2022-12-17, 04:24:

Is this whole topic a promotion/spam post ?

Not at all.. Sorry if it came across that way. Genuinely I interested if a single tool can save me time on some older systems. Time is the one thing I have least of....

Yeh I've seen Phil use it a number of times.
Personally I like the challenge of tracking down drivers for my builds and prefer to install bare minimum on my builds.
But I get not everyone is strange like me and while I don't agree with everything Phil does he typically does his homework on stuff like this so would think its fine.