@ all visitors of this thread:
This discussion had been started by our Forum member XPLives within >this< thread. Since its content had neither to do with the topic “USB Drivers” nor with the topic “Win7”, I decided to split this discussion from the source thread and to create a new one within the Sub-Forum “Intel AHCI/RAID Drivers”.
After having read 2 pages with rather useless speculations, whether the TXTSETUP.OEM file of some Intel AHCI/RAID drivers may have been altered or re-written by a mainboard manufacturer (which is absolutely irrelevant for the users), I would like to close this thread with a short summary of the results we achieved by this discussion:
- Within the AHCI/RAID driver packages for old Windows Operating Systems up to XP and W2k3 is a simple text file named TXTSETUP.OEM, which has an impact on the first (= TEXTMODE) part of the OS installation process and its outcome (success/failure), but is not WRITE protected by a digital signature.
- As well as all other files, which are part of those old AHCI/RAID drivers, the TXTSETUP.OEM file is Copyright protected by the chipset manufacturer (here: Intel). That means, that any modification of this file needs the agreement or at least the toleration by the Company, which had created the original file.