Deploying Win8 Enterprise to ElitePad

[nimmer]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to deploy Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit to our HP ElitePad 900. I have both read the HP Whitepaper and read a guide here on this site, but I'm running into some problems:

 

If I import all the drivers from the HP Client WinPE 4.0 x86 and x64 Driver Pack to my boot image and start the PXE boot, it stops with a failure concerning the IASTOR.SYS - then I remove all the Intel SATA drivers from the boot image and it continues, starts the WinPE environment, but the reboots after the "preparing network connections" - as if it doesn't contains the correct LAN drivers?

 

The weird things is that I have succesfully (well almost) deployed to 2 Elitepads without this problem - can anyone help? Could there be something wrong with the tablet?

 

regards

 

nimmer

[BB24]

We've done tests with this in our lab in the past. Our task sequences will fail if they are more than 3 days out of whack. Interestingly it only fails if it is > 3 behind the current date. If the BIOS is ahead, it doesn't seem to impact SCCM installs.

 

You might be able to leverage the wmi class win32_currenttime and compare the Day, Month and Year to a Now() function to account for a potential failure.