WinPE used to have an issue where if you have 2 drivers that are named similarly and they support the same hardware ID (but different versions), that WinPE will apply the one that was IMPORTED first (usually the older version and the one you don't want to use).
I don't know if this has been corrected, but checking the logs as Trevor suggests will confirm. We reduced the amount of drivers included in our WinPE CABs to help alleviate this issue. Thanks, Warren Byle Dell | Business Client Systems Management Product Manager office +1 512 724 2626 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Join the conversation Dell TechCenter<http://www.delltechcenter.com/> Twitter: WarrenByle<http://twitter.com/WarrenByle> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor Sullivan Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] NIC driver not loading in WinPE Brandon, Check out the %windir%\inf\setupapi.dev.log file to see what's going on. Are you sure you downloaded the right driver? 32-bit vs. 64-bit? Does the DeviceID of the NIC match a DeviceID declared in the .inf files for the driver? Cheers, Trevor Sullivan From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Buman, Brandon Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:33 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] NIC driver not loading in WinPE Good afternoon: We recently received some Dell Optiplex 9020's that we are trying to deploy an image to and upon PXE boot it starts to boot into WinPE and then crashes. Everything that I have read points to the NIC driver not loading, so I've injected the driver into my boot.wim and it still fails. We are having no issue with any other Dell models and we are able to successfully deploys images to them. It's just these 9020's that have the issue. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Brandon L Buman Senior Technology Support Specialist Marion County Board of County Commissioners Information Technology Phone: 352-671-8824 ________________________________ Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.
