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kcnychief
Posts:3
 | | 12/19/2007 7:28 AM |
| I setup a test lab with the BDD running on 2003 Server and got most of it working so far. I have a rather weird issue that seems to effect a few models/hardware devices. For instance, video on a Dell Optiplex GX260 and Video/Modem on a Optiplex 755 don't install by default eventhough the drivers are there. In both cases, the network card is installed so I can browse to the server share that contains the drivers, which were the same files added to the driver pack in the Workbench. If I use device manager on each PC and point to these driver files, it copies over to System32 and works fine - my question is why isn't this happening automatically like the rest of the hardware? I could copy these problem drivers to the system32 folder by default on my main image, but that seems like a band-aid to what could be a larger problem. The deployment completes without any errors too, so I'm not sure what's really going on. Any suggestions or comments on this one? | | | |
| Simon Hardy
Posts:20
| | 12/20/2007 8:25 AM |
| | Would you be able to post your BDD.log file or at least the relevant sections of it relating to the driver discovery actions along with your drivers.xml and drivergroup.xml files? | | | |
| kcnychief
Posts:3
| | 12/20/2007 8:49 PM |
| Hi Scott, I have attached the log files you requested. I did find a few new items since posting here. First, the whole system32 idea probably isn't the best, since after some reading the drivers are supposed to be copied to c:\drivers (a hidden folder). After taking a look, the base folder is there but the entire folder didn't copy over. I suspected it was related to the WinPeCacheThreshold since the video driver folders are rather large. I am pretty sure I did apply this fix correctly, and I don't think it fixed it. While I'm still looking, any other suggestions you have are appreciated. |
 Attachment: DriverGroups.xml
Attachment: Drivers.xml
Attachment: depl_gx620_bdd.log
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| Mike Dzikowski
Deployment Forum MVP
Posts:122
| | 01/01/2008 11:50 PM |
| | Hi kcnychief- Some drivers are two tiered and they have to be added in your sysprep.inf before the image is deployed. I ran into this issue with RealTek Audio drivers on many of my Dell Clients.
Mike Dzikowski
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| kcnychief
Posts:3
| | 01/02/2008 8:03 AM |
| Interesting proposal - I'm curious though, what would be the path to reference in the sysprep.inf file? For instance the path on my deployment server is c:\drivers, so I assume I would put that in as well. Do I just need to put something in the oempnpdriverpath like this: OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\videodriverfolder" Would that be sufficient, or do I need to go deeper if it is truly two-tiered?
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| Mike Dzikowski
Deployment Forum MVP
Posts:122
| | 01/02/2008 10:57 PM |
| | Here is a microsoft article that dives deep into this topic. I like Ben's article a bit more, it breaks it down a little easier. Ben's is discussing mass storage drivers. That is most likely the biggest issue I've run into with deployments. MSFT http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314479
Ben's
http://blogs.technet.com/benhunter/archive/2007/07/12/bdd-2007-integrating-mass-storage-drivers-into-your-xp-image.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/benhunter/archive/2007/06/29/bdd-2007-intel-mass-storage-drivers-iastor.aspxAlso, there is a known issue with some OEM video drivers and your reference image may need to have a hotfix applied. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883667 Let me know how that goes.
Mike Dzikowski
P.S. There are other hotfixes that may help too: 888111 and 890463 - these helped me out in the past with a modem driver issue and other audio issues.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890463http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888111
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