Drivers install is slow during OSD task sequence

[thadkew]

Attached you'll find my task sequence for deploying Windows XP

The main problem I'm having is that the sequence will redo the drivers install at least three times before it will continue the task.

The way the drivers is called is by model name (it's a variable at the beginning).

 

Is there any way to speed up the driver install or at least stop it from installing them three times (or more)?

Windows XP deploy.xml

[Peter van der Woude]

That's weird, how are you trying that?

[thadkew]

That's weird, how are you trying that?

 

Booting from the boot media created.

Press F8 to start cmd prompt

type wbemtest

press connect and type root\cimv2 and press connect again

press Query button and then type Select model from Win32_ComputerSystem and press Apply

 

[Peter van der Woude]

Select model from Win32_ComputerSystem and press Apply

Are using Select model, or Select * ?

[thadkew]

Are using Select model, or Select * ?

Select * just shows the name (minit-jr134dQR or something like that)

Select model shows the <no key>

[Peter van der Woude]

Select * just shows the name (minit-jr134dQR or something like that)

 

That's the result you are looking for! Double click that and you can browse to the model the machine.

[thadkew]

That's the result you are looking for! Double click that and you can browse to the model the machine.

 

Wow!

That was it. Thanks a bunch!

 

I'll try my task with the query computer model variable and see what happens

[thadkew]

So, the apply drivers is working without any variables, and that's great. But it will still hit 14% and then restart the process, go to 14% and restart the process again. On the third time, it will go through.

I've done this with different models and it still has the same issue.

14% start over 14% start over 100%

 

Increases deployment time to over 30 minutes for an OS deployment (doesn't matter if it's Win7 or XP)