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"Tim" <Tim@NoSpam.com> schreef in bericht
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> Jan,
>
> MSI = Microsoft Installer - a swish platform independant way of packaging
> software for distribution and installation. It is very good as it
> automatically support clean deinstallation of software including registry
> keys.
>
> "version of the Windows Installer is older than required" indicates that
the
> latest version of InstMsiW.exe (this updates the version of MSI on your
> system) needs to be run on your system. The package should have come with
a
> bunch of files like so:
>
> SmartDoctor.msi --> file name may be different, but this contains the
> actual software
> InstMsiW.exe -- MS Installer
> Setup.exe -- Setup "bootstrap" Program
> setup.ini -- Tells setup program what to install.
>
> If you are double clicking on the MSI file - the error will appear if the
> version of the Installer system you have is out of date. If you run
> Setup.exe, then setup will automatically detect this and run the instmsiw
> file followed by the actual MSI install.
>
> If you do not have an instmsiw.exe file, setup.exe, or setup.ini then you
> have only part of the setup. Follow Paul's instructions and locate the
most
> recent and download it - hopefully that will be complete.
>
> The error is actually quite Odd since XP SP1 will have the most recent
> version for XP & the only update recently to the MSI system has been for
> capabilities needed in 64 bit systems... they could be on the ball!
>
> If you still have problems then post back...
>
> - Tim
THX Tim, but I have all these files in the package and the wininstaller file
in this package is older than the one that came with XP Prof. SP1, namely
2.0.2600.1106 (That's the installed version on my system). I checked the MS
KB and my version is indeed the most actual one, as you indicated. When I
run setup.exe it keeps telling me that my installer is out of date while it
isn't. I extracted the downloaded Asus file to a temp directory, so while
running Setup from this dir all the files of the package are in that same
dir. What goes wrong? I dare say I'm a very experienced computer user for a
few decades now and I don't understand what goes wrong here. BTW, when you
look in the setup.ini file, Win XP is not mentioned as one of the operating
systems this package can be installed on. I am quite sure I downloaded the
right version for XP. I tried versions 4.00, 4.22 and 4.31, all with the
same results.
Jan
>
> "Jan van der Staaij" <jstaaijNOSPAM@worldonline.nl> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Nero" <nero@rome.it> schreef in bericht
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> >>
> >> "Jan van der Staaij" <jstaaijNOSPAM@worldonline.nl> wrote in message
> >> news:40add479$0$41756$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl...
> >> > I am trying to install Asus SmartDoctor vs. 4.00 (for Win 2000/XP) on
> >> > my
> >> > system and I keep getting the message that my version of the Windows
> >> > Installer is older than required. I checked the MS Knowledge Base and
> >> > my
> >> > version of msi.dll (2.0.2600.1106) is the most recent version. When
> >> checking
> >> > the setup.ini file of SmartDoctor Win XP is not mentioned as one of
the
> >> > Operating systems. Does anyone know a solution to this problem?
> >> >
> >> > Jan
> >> >
> >> >
> >> Does you card support it?
> >> It can only be used on a few cards.
> >> What card do you have?
> >>
> > Thanks for your reaction Nero. I have an Asus Radeon 9600 XT vivo. I
don't
> > know about SD II and I did't find any downloadlinks on the Asus website
> > about vs. II (only version 4.x), but this version 4.00 is from december
> > 2003. If you can give me a downloadlink, that would be nice. BTW, I now
> > have
> > version 3.03 installed, but it seems that I can't control the fanspeed.
> > Maybe this is because I disabled Smartcooling in the Bios, because I 'm
> > using a Zalman CPU cooler, that only makes about 1400 RPM. Smartcooling
> > doesn't like that at all and when SC is enabled in the Bios, the PC
won't
> > boot, because of "a faulty CPU cooler". If it turns out that I will not
be
> > able to control the fanspeed with SD because of the above reason, is
there
> > any other piece of software out there (maybe Speedfan?) that will do the
> > job?
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
>
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