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Mgulbranson User is Offline

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12/04/2007 8:45 AM
We have gone in and injected the new drivers as set out by the following website http://www.windowsvistaplace.com/inject-drivers-into-windows-pe-20/windows-vista with a little work we put them all in that needed to be installed. That said when we boot up with WinPE 2.0 our New Dell Optiplex 755’s we can’t get the darn thing to see our network, we can do a Loop back ping 127.0.0.1 which works but can’t ping anything else. I went in did the following command Notepad.exe x:\Windows INF\setupapi.app.log Please see attachment the NIC shows failed to start. Do you have any info that could help us with this problem? Also we have removed all the drivers except the ones we need for that box, we have stacks of paper on our desk tring to figure out what is causing the issue. Does anyone have this working?

bates

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12/04/2007 12:03 PM
I am working with a 755 as well. Do you have the nic enabled in the bios? I am booting to PE 2.0 with no problem. The nic is set to just "on" in the bios. I hope I am understanding your problem correctly. I also use the out of box drivers in the distribution share. I did not try what was suggested on that page you linked. I am assuming if your using PE 2.0 your using the latest Microsoft Deployment. Also make sure your using the correct NIC driver as well. I am deploying XP as well not Vista. Hopefully I helped.

Simon Hardy User is Offline

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12/05/2007 2:03 PM
We are using Microsoft Deployment and have deployed to many Dell machines GX620, 745, D630 etc.....but the 755 did take a few attempts... It was only when we got a few into the lab we realised that Dell were shipping the 755 with either a Broadcom NIC or an Intel NIC and we only had the Broadcom drivers within Microsoft Deployment. A quick update of our driver library and deployment point (to re-create the new WinPE 2.0 WIM) and all is working.... So... check you have the right drivers for the NIC....don't assume all Dells are using Broadcom.

ClintonTull User is Offline

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01/04/2008 12:27 PM
We just finished the 755, had to add the Drivers to the nic and sata drivers too. Just copied and pasted them the system found what it needed from a PE2.0 platform.

Erin

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01/15/2008 11:08 AM
I would say to try to load the driver within winpe environment and see if it works. If you have a driver cd or a usb or any source use the command drvload and point to your .inf file. After it's done try your network again. You can run executables too within winpe in case your driver comes like that. If it works you can try ti re inject them, if not the problem could be somewhere else and not winpe.

Mike Dzikowski User is Offline

Deployment Forum MVP

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01/25/2008 11:57 AM
What NIC is this 755 using? Also, did you update your Out of Box drivers with the correct driver version from Dell and update your Distribution Point? Mike Dzikowski

Mike Dzikowski, MCP

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05/28/2008 3:21 PM
I'm having this same problem and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I have the proper drive loaded in "Out-of-Box" drivers (it's the Intel 82566DM-2 driver, FWIW) and using the LiteTouch ISO generated after adding the drivers, I cannot get Deployment to load drivers for the NIC. I'm going to isolate the driver completely in the event that Deployment is mixing PnP codes or something, but this is basically the last thing I can think of. Was this problem ever solved?

Tux

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09/04/2008 2:32 PM
Hi Mgulbranson, I had the same problem as you, there are two images in teh boot.wim fimages supplied with every version of windows. Only the Vista Ultimate SP1 and Win2008 should be used because they are the only ones which support multicasting. You need to load the drivers using the peimg /inf=c:\path\to\driver.inf You do this by using imagex to mount the wims. The first wim inside the boot.wim is the Windows longhorn PE, and the 2nd is the Win Longhorn Setup. Imagex /mountrw boot.wim 1 c:\images\mount peimg /inf=drivers\my\driver.inf imagex /unmount /commit c:\images\mount repeat for the second with: Imagex /mountrw boot.wim 2 c:\images\mount peimg /inf=drivers\my\driver.inf imagex /unmount /commit c:\images\mount Now it should work. If the driver takes long to load, run a ping -t as see how long. You can also use the SIM "system Image manager" to set the defaulty path for all drivers, or you can manuall copy the driver files ".sys", to mount\windows\system32\drivers. Hope this helps

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