So I've got an interesting issue to throw to the community here. I have a ConfigMgr site that has been 100% operational for the past 1 1/2 years. WIthin the past 2 weeks however the operating system deployment portion has stopped functioning correctly.
During the deployment of Windows XP Pro SP3 ConfigMgr will run its PnP drivers deployment, find all the drivers, copy them to the C:\ drive, then add the driver location to the unattended file for XP to use during setup. So far, so good. However once the task sequence is done installing XP and goes to communicate with the distribution point to run additional tasks it fails. It fails because the network card failed to get installed even though the drivers were copied over.
Now if I go into device manager I can manually install the network card using the drivers already on the C: drive, so I know the drivers are good, and it's not just a particular model of PC because this is happening on all the model of PC's not just one.
Now just to get this out, absolutely nothing has changed in the environment. I'm the only ConfigMgr admin.
Here are the things I've done in troubleshooting with the same result of having no network card installed.
* Refreshed the operating system source files
* Downloaded the latest operating system source files from Microsoft
* Refreshed the driver packages
* Deleted all the drivers from ConfigMgr then reloaded just the drivers for one model of PC, still no luck
* Reloaded ALL the drivers back into ConfigMgr
* Created a custom task sequence that only installs XP
I'm up for any suggestions or ideas. I'm completely confused as to why this is happening all of a sudden especially since I haven't changed anything.
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So I've got an interesting issue to throw to the community here. I have a ConfigMgr site that has been 100% operational for the past 1 1/2 years. WIthin the past 2 weeks however the operating system deployment portion has stopped functioning correctly.
During the deployment of Windows XP Pro SP3 ConfigMgr will run its PnP drivers deployment, find all the drivers, copy them to the C:\ drive, then add the driver location to the unattended file for XP to use during setup. So far, so good. However once the task sequence is done installing XP and goes to communicate with the distribution point to run additional tasks it fails. It fails because the network card failed to get installed even though the drivers were copied over.
Now if I go into device manager I can manually install the network card using the drivers already on the C: drive, so I know the drivers are good, and it's not just a particular model of PC because this is happening on all the model of PC's not just one.
Now just to get this out, absolutely nothing has changed in the environment. I'm the only ConfigMgr admin.
Here are the things I've done in troubleshooting with the same result of having no network card installed.
* Refreshed the operating system source files
* Downloaded the latest operating system source files from Microsoft
* Refreshed the driver packages
* Deleted all the drivers from ConfigMgr then reloaded just the drivers for one model of PC, still no luck
* Reloaded ALL the drivers back into ConfigMgr
* Created a custom task sequence that only installs XP
I'm up for any suggestions or ideas. I'm completely confused as to why this is happening all of a sudden especially since I haven't changed anything.
Thanks in advance.
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