Topic: Chipset Pack... Sysprep... Windows PE... Conflicts.... Headache!
First off, I wanted to voice my appreciation for this community and the developers of these packs... You are all seriously a GOD-send!
My issue is when integrating the Windows 7 x64 Chipset Driverpacks into a System Image.
I'm aware of the MANY methods to do this. I'm using Windows 7 and wanted to have the sysprep startup sequence scan for the drivers and install them, but I didn't want them to stick around in the system after the deployment (~4GB).
What I did was just make a subdirectory with all the drivers in: %SYSTEMROOT%\inf\x64 with all the driverpacks extracted since this is the only folder that is RECURSIVELY searched for drivers. Adding a directory to the DriverPath registry key only searches the root folder specified.
Works well. The only downside is a little slowdown of the installing devices sequence, no big deal considering it's all automatic.
Afterwards, a startup VBS scripts performs some operations then calls a BATCH script which deletes this x64 folder (alll occurs on first login), without issues I may add... except for one.
When integrating the Chipset package, along with all the others, on an Intel integrated graphics system, there is a driver conflict. The Intel HD Graphics (on a B940 Laptop and issue was duplicated on a new LucidLogix enabled mobo using Intel HD3000 ie. i7-2600k) always come up with a yellow exclamation mark giving Code 12. I believe it said not enough resources and that it couldn't start. I tried restart, reinstalling, deleting drivers and reinstalling... nothing would work save a reformat.
Now, I came to the conclusion that specifically the Intel folder in the Chipset driver pack caused this issue. I integrated ALL other drivers (including the Chipset Pack without the Intel Folder) and all was nominal, on both systems, including an ASUS laptop using an NVIDIA graphics card (Intel integrated completely disabled, no LucidLogix Virtu).
This issue also crept up when I integrated them into a boot.wim for a WindowsPE image. I just used the Windows 7 SP1 MSDN boot.wim image to integrate drivers with Rt7lite and enable EFI boot and Shift-F10 to get a CMD and use the tools eg. imagex, diskpart. It gave me a bluescreen on bootup and as soon as I just integrated the USB (not full chipset package) along with Mass Storage, LAN, and WLAN... issue was gone! (This was on the ASUS system with NVIDIA graphics).
SO! Just wanted to mention this issue and clear the air for someone who may be in the same predicament. This all came about through MANY images and MANY re-formats to test and isolate the issue.
It probably has to do with the new Intel Management Engine drivers (as I have not imaged in about a year so I've never tried integrating them...), but a more experienced person may have some better insight on this.... (Hint: INSIGHT WELCOMED! lol)
Happy imaging!
Last edited by rootMBX (2011-12-25 12:40:59)