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Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/23/2008 5:16:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi!
 
I'm running BDD 2007 with Zerotouch, using WDS and SMS.
When installing a bare-metal machine I just press F12 to boot WinPE from WDS.
 
I'm having trouble with a new machine, a Dell Optiplex 755. For some reason it cannot load the nic driver correctly when entering the GUI. I have put the drivers in system32, system32\drv and the i386 catalog, the last one for enabling the machine to boot winpe from WDS.
 
All other machines work fine with this and according to the setupapi.log, they load their networkdriver and then the appropriate protocols. I enclose an example (hplog.txt).
 
The difference with the Dell machine is that according to setupapi.log, it doesn't even try to search for a corresponding driver for the ethernet card, it goes immediately to binding the protocols. I enclose that file too in a new post (optiplexlog.txt)
 
The strange thing is that even though the ipconfig command does not work, and I don't get name resolution, I do get an ip-adress and can ping the servers and connect to them with the ip-adress.
 
I suspect that the driver that is loaded to boot from wds is still in play and thus it still has an ip-adress at this point.
 
Question is, why doesn't it search the inf-files for a driver?
 
The nic is an Intel 82566 DM-2 Gigabit Network connection
 
Anyone else got this problem?




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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/23/2008 5:16:59 AM   
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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/23/2008 4:12:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Does this: http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m_169247/mpage_1/key_optiplex/tm.htm#169247 help?

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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/24/2008 7:54:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, I've read that post previously. and I did trying to add vista drivers but it didn't work.
Now when I read it again I though maybe you have to add BOTH the Xp-drivers AND the Vista drivers to get it to work?
 
The WinPE we're running is Winpe 2005 if it makes a difference.
 
I know I have the correct drivers since I have another customer who runs a simper setup, just SMS, OSD and a RIS server. That solution works fine with the 755 machine and exactly the same drivers.
 

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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/24/2008 3:24:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		So let me back up a step or two.... You say it doesn't load the right NIC in the GUI... so where is this happening? Do you mean in the Windows PE pre-install phase?

And what machine do you use as your reference machine when creating your Windows XP .WIM file? Do you blow away the C:\Windows\INF\oem*.inf and oem*.pnf (where * is a numerical digit) files prior to capturing the image?

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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/25/2008 4:43:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'll start with the second question which is the easiest: It does not matter at this stage, because the machine I'm having problems with does not come to the stage where it download the OS.wim file.
 
This is what happens: I press F12 to start a PXE boot in the machine, it goes through welcome.osc and the other appropriate .osc files.
It then loads e1e5132.sys from the WDS <imageroot>\i386\ directory and starts up Windows Preinstall Environment (you know, with the black dos screen and the white bar moving at the bottom).
 
It then loads the graphic interface and an SMS screen comes up saying "initializing windows pe".
After a few secs it says "initializing networking".
This is where it should load e1e5132.sys again but this time from the WDS <imageroot>\i386\system32 directory, only it doesn't. It doesn't try to load any nic at all according to setupapi.log.
 
But it does have an ip-adress and I can ping the server fine, although I don't have nameresolution and the ipconfig command does not work.
 
I suspect (and it's just a guess) that since I have an ip-adress, it's the first load of the e1e5132.sys that still hang in there. Since that first load of the nic is just for the system to get a connection to the WDS <imageroot>\i386\ and start loading winpe from there, perhaps that load doesn't need nameresolution etc and thats why I can have an ip-address at all.
 
The big question is:
 
Why doesn't it try to load the nic when it says "initializing network"?
 
Is that any clearer?

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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/25/2008 5:27:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		One more thing. What it should do next if it would have loaded the nic is:
 
connect to the SMS-share where the OS-package is located (Stdsrvr2\smspkgd$\Pgn00004\ in my case) and run ZeroTouchInstallation.vbs from there.
 

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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 1/25/2008 5:20:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		In that post I referenced omniwolf was having a problem acquiring an IP address so they had to put a wscript.sleep line in one of the scripts. Did you try that?

You might also put a quick post referencing this one in the WDS forum in case someone picks it up there as well...

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RE: Nic doesnt load in WinPe and WDS - 2/6/2008 8:00:13 AM   
marimar

 

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Status: offline 		Hi Rbennett!

I finally solved this.

It was the inf-file of the intel driver that was to large in some sections.

I followed this procedure to modify the inf file and then it worked just fine!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;923831


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