Differences between CD and Standalone OSD

[Kops]

I am deploying by CD right now - and I left the 'pauses' in just to have a look, and it responded quite differently than standalone.

- In standalone USB deployments, I would accept the first pause, then within about 2 seconds it would throw the second pause.

 

- In CD deployments, I accepted the first pause...and now it is installing drivers, I can see the progress bar 'installing driver abc...installing driver def....' etc.... and then get the second pause after a couple of minutes. After that, the rest of the OSD is in a much higher resolution - I can tell that the video drives installed properly at that point (this doesn't happen with standalone, it stays all blown up at 800x600)

 

Once the CD OSD is done and I am in Windows, Device Manager tells me that Intel HD Graphics is installed, and version 10.18.3412 (see attached).

 

[BB24]

Kops,

 

If you look at the Details tab and change the Property to Hardware Ids, what do you see, specifically the subsys and rev values?

 

You description of what the install looks like "when it works" vs "when it doesn't (USB/standalone)" suggests the driver package has a problem and possibly rebuilding the standalone media will need to be done. But before you do that, try uninstalling the video driver (and supporting driver files) from the CD built system and rebooting. It should load with a basic vga driver. Try updating/installing the driver but use the USB as the source location for the driver. Try pointing it to the directory location of your video drivers and see which one installs.

[Kops]

The Hardware ID info is as follows:

 

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0A16&SUBSYS_221817AA&REV_0B

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0A16&SUBSYS_221817AA
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0A16&CC_030000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0A16&CC_0300

 

I have rebuilt the USB media several times, trying to take a 'clean' approach when doing this. I have been deleting all drivers in the Lenovo X1 Carbon Win7x64 category out of config manager, deleting all driver files out of the folder ...sources\drivers\Lenovo X1 Carbon folder on the SCCM server, as well as the 'package' folder it creates, and re-uploading the driver fiels to the .../sources/drivers/Lenovo X1 Carbon folder, and re-importing them into config manager.

 

I have taken a CD based deployment that worked well, and uninstalled the video drivers, and rebooted so it loaded with Standard VGA adapter 800x600. I pointed device manager to ...\sources\drivers\Lenovo X1 Carbon where I have a few subdirectories (Win7x64, Win7x64 Test, as well as extracted video drivers from Intel, and extracted video drivers from Lenovo) and said 'search this location and all subfolders for a driver' to see which one it would pick. The answer - it picked Intel driver version 10.18.10.3412 - the one assigned to the task sequences that I have been applying.

[BB24]

Your driver IDs match mine so it looks like you have the right drivers and .inf file. Is it possible that you have more than one video driver categorized to your Carbon?

[Kops]

I don't believe so - the screenshot in post #21 shows a search for all drivers with 'graphics' in the name. You can see that the previous administrator had added like 10 drivers for the Dell e6500 laptop...I'm sure that deployment went well, but I have started from scratch a few times here paying careful attention to which drivers I was including. I even tried the ConfigMgr driver packages directly from Lenovo. I don't think this is the case of the 'wrong' driver....there has to be a conflict elsewhere

[BB24]

This will be painful to do, but if you are willing.....

 

De-categorize all the other drivers from the Lenovo except for your storage, network and video and rebuild the USB Standalone media with that. I would expect all the build to complete, but Device Manager has a bunch of missing drivers (Red 'bang' symbols). Theoretically the only driver conflict will come from either the storage or NIC at that point.

 

Another way to do this would be to break the Auto Apply driver and the Video driver into distinct installation steps. Install the OS, apply the video driver, pause it and then fire up deivice manager (via F8 key), check to see if the video driver installed, continue the install of the remaining drivers, pause it, then recheck the device manager to see if it was overridden.

 

We might just have a race condition where either the video driver is getting overwritten or it isn't installing because it sees that there is a video driver already in place. Does that make sense to you?

[Kops]

Well, after much effort, I have had some success with this!

 

I used the SCCM driver package from the Lenovo website - I noticed that the link I provided earlier doesn't actually work....but if you look for X1 drivers on the Lenovo website you will see on May 29th they released an 'Enterprise Management' set of drivers for SCCM deployment. When I take these drivers and import them, and choose the 'Apply Driver Package' option, they deploy successfully

 

Although this doesn't solve the mystery of why a CD deployment would work,but a USB deployment wouldn't, its a solution and thats all I really care about.

 

BB24, your help throughout this process is greatly appreciated. I picked up many helpful tricks along the way

[BB24]

Congratulations Kops! Your perseverance paid off.