Boot image drivers

[vincelewin]

Hey,

 

Every time a new laptop model/generation arrives at the door the level 2 guys give me a whole bunch of drivers and say "Can you import these into SCCM?"

 

The issue I have is the machines fail to fully boot off the network but the cab file for the new device contains 174 chipset drivers and 20 nic drivers.

 

I don't want to import all of these into the boot image as this takes forever and seems to cause problems but which should I import!

 

Can anyone give me some guidance on how to make an informed choice on which drivers I should add to the boot image?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Vince

[Iroqouiz]

What laptop models are you using? If it is Dell then they have excellent WinPE driver packs here.

 

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/2065.dell-driver-cab-files-for-enterprise-client-os-deployment.aspx

[vincelewin]

What laptop models are you using? If it is Dell then they have excellent WinPE driver packs here.

 

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/2065.dell-driver-cab-files-for-enterprise-client-os-deployment.aspx

Yeah its dell, thanks ill have a look.

[Peter33]

Just my 2 cents regarding boot image drivers. If you are unsure about the hardware, boot up the client with Windows PE (PXE Boot, USB ..) and run the following commands in a cmd:

 

wmic path win32_networkadapter where "physicaladapter=true" get pnpdeviceid
wmic path win32_idecontroller get pnpdeviceid

 

This will give you the hardware IDs for the network adapter and the IDE controller. Just google the IDs and lookup the result in your driver databse for a fitting match.