Intel pro 1000 winpe image for Dell optiplex gx 270

Kim Oppalfens [MVP]

Help.

I am getting a bit desperate here, I am trying to build a winpe image
that I want to boot from a RIS server.

But no matter what I try the image seems to refuse initializing the
Intel pro 1000 nic, that comes within these Dell optiplex gx 270 machines.

I have tried several different drivers, tried copying them manually to
different locations. Tried integrating them with drvinst, and even by
referring to them in risstdrd.sif but no matter what I try I can't seem
to get this nic working in windows pe. The image boots fine starts
initializing windows pe, sais it initializes the network and
subsequently fails. When I run ipconfig I get an error.

The strange thing is that if I run netcfg -v -s a it tells me it detects
a normal ethernet adapter, the device isn't recognized as being an
intel pro 1000 nic.

I am starting to run out of ideas, so if anyone has this working, or has
some tips on howto troubleshoot this than I would be really grateful.
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Matthew Hudson

I downloaded the latest drives from Dell, not from the intel site to make it
work. The intel drivers just don't work correctly. Granted I do a bare
metal deployment with a cd not RIS but we do GX 270's all the time. I just
add the network drive directory to the cd at package time. Does it work with
the Deploy CD?
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"Kim Oppalfens [MVP]" <""Kim dot Oppalfen" wrote:

> Help.
>
> I am getting a bit desperate here, I am trying to build a winpe image
> that I want to boot from a RIS server.
>
> But no matter what I try the image seems to refuse initializing the
> Intel pro 1000 nic, that comes within these Dell optiplex gx 270 machines.
>
> I have tried several different drivers, tried copying them manually to
> different locations. Tried integrating them with drvinst, and even by
> referring to them in risstdrd.sif but no matter what I try I can't seem
> to get this nic working in windows pe. The image boots fine starts
> initializing windows pe, sais it initializes the network and
> subsequently fails. When I run ipconfig I get an error.
>
> The strange thing is that if I run netcfg -v -s a it tells me it detects
> a normal ethernet adapter, the device isn't recognized as being an
> intel pro 1000 nic.
>
> I am starting to run out of ideas, so if anyone has this working, or has
> some tips on howto troubleshoot this than I would be really grateful.
> --
> "Everyone is an expert at something"
> Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
> Windows Server System MVP - SMS
> http://www.blogcastrepository.com/bl...s/default.aspx
>

Todd Miller

Is this the thing with the intel drivers and RIS?

I haven't done any RISing for a while, but I remember that the INF files in
some Intel drivers couldn;t be parsed and so they wouldn't work with RIS.
The INF file had to be edited to get rid of the "." in the [NT5.something]
Sections.

Sorry I can't be more precise. We ended up not being able to use RIS
because of network politics, so I haven't run into this problem for about 3
years. Intel has a post on their web site with modified INF files for use
with RIS.

Like I said, I dunno if this could be your problem or not.

"Kim Oppalfens [MVP]" <""Kim dot Oppalfen" wrote:

> Help.
>
> I am getting a bit desperate here, I am trying to build a winpe image
> that I want to boot from a RIS server.
>
> But no matter what I try the image seems to refuse initializing the
> Intel pro 1000 nic, that comes within these Dell optiplex gx 270 machines.
>
> I have tried several different drivers, tried copying them manually to
> different locations. Tried integrating them with drvinst, and even by
> referring to them in risstdrd.sif but no matter what I try I can't seem
> to get this nic working in windows pe. The image boots fine starts
> initializing windows pe, sais it initializes the network and
> subsequently fails. When I run ipconfig I get an error.
>
> The strange thing is that if I run netcfg -v -s a it tells me it detects
> a normal ethernet adapter, the device isn't recognized as being an
> intel pro 1000 nic.
>
> I am starting to run out of ideas, so if anyone has this working, or has
> some tips on howto troubleshoot this than I would be really grateful.
> --
> "Everyone is an expert at something"
> Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
> Windows Server System MVP - SMS
> http://www.blogcastrepository.com/bl...s/default.aspx
>

Kim Oppalfens [MVP]

Matthew Hudson wrote:
> I downloaded the latest drives from Dell, not from the intel site to make it
> work. The intel drivers just don't work correctly. Granted I do a bare
> metal deployment with a cd not RIS but we do GX 270's all the time. I just
> add the network drive directory to the cd at package time. Does it work with
> the Deploy CD?
Matthew,

looks like I might need to try and rebuilt my windows pe with the dell
drivers. Will give that a shot. Thanks for the hint.

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Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP - SMS
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/bl...s/default.aspx

Kim Oppalfens [MVP]

Todd Miller wrote:
> Is this the thing with the intel drivers and RIS?
>
> I haven't done any RISing for a while, but I remember that the INF files in
> some Intel drivers couldn;t be parsed and so they wouldn't work with RIS.
> The INF file had to be edited to get rid of the "." in the [NT5.something]
> Sections.
>
> Sorry I can't be more precise. We ended up not being able to use RIS
> because of network politics, so I haven't run into this problem for about 3
> years. Intel has a post on their web site with modified INF files for use
> with RIS.
>
> Like I said, I dunno if this could be your problem or not.
>
> "Kim Oppalfens [MVP]" <""Kim dot Oppalfen" wrote:
>
>> Help.
>>
>> I am getting a bit desperate here, I am trying to build a winpe image
>> that I want to boot from a RIS server.
>>
>> But no matter what I try the image seems to refuse initializing the
>> Intel pro 1000 nic, that comes within these Dell optiplex gx 270 machines.
>>
>> I have tried several different drivers, tried copying them manually to
>> different locations. Tried integrating them with drvinst, and even by
>> referring to them in risstdrd.sif but no matter what I try I can't seem
>> to get this nic working in windows pe. The image boots fine starts
>> initializing windows pe, sais it initializes the network and
>> subsequently fails. When I run ipconfig I get an error.
>>
>> The strange thing is that if I run netcfg -v -s a it tells me it detects
>> a normal ethernet adapter, the device isn't recognized as being an
>> intel pro 1000 nic.
>>
>> I am starting to run out of ideas, so if anyone has this working, or has
>> some tips on howto troubleshoot this than I would be really grateful.
>> --
>> "Everyone is an expert at something"
>> Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
>> Windows Server System MVP - SMS
>> http://www.blogcastrepository.com/bl...s/default.aspx
>>
Nope, I was aware of this issue. But the ris boots up fine, and loads
the winpe. But my nic isn't functional within winpe.

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Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP - SMS
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Johan Loos

Kim,

Try to disable hypertreading in the BIOS and try again.

This one can maybe helps:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;814199

regards
Johan
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> Help.
>
> I am getting a bit desperate here, I am trying to build a winpe image that
> I want to boot from a RIS server.
>
> But no matter what I try the image seems to refuse initializing the Intel
> pro 1000 nic, that comes within these Dell optiplex gx 270 machines.
>
> I have tried several different drivers, tried copying them manually to
> different locations. Tried integrating them with drvinst, and even by
> referring to them in risstdrd.sif but no matter what I try I can't seem to
> get this nic working in windows pe. The image boots fine starts
> initializing windows pe, sais it initializes the network and subsequently
> fails. When I run ipconfig I get an error.
>
> The strange thing is that if I run netcfg -v -s a it tells me it detects a
> normal ethernet adapter, the device isn't recognized as being an intel pro
> 1000 nic.
>
> I am starting to run out of ideas, so if anyone has this working, or has
> some tips on howto troubleshoot this than I would be really grateful.
> --
> "Everyone is an expert at something"
> Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
> Windows Server System MVP - SMS
> http://www.blogcastrepository.com/bl...s/default.aspx

Kim Oppalfens [MVP]

Nope, that wasn't it.

Together with the help of the customer we managed to resolve it.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923831 was the fix for our issue.

I copied all files in the dell driver to the i386 folder of the winpe
folder. We subsequently edited the inf file in accordance with the KB
article.

The following files were copied to the i386 folder:
e1000325.sys
e1000325.din
e1000msg.dll
intelnic.dll
prounstl.exe

And the winpe was created using the osd installation cd wizard, and the
folder with the optiplex gx270 drivers was selected to include the
drivers in winpe.

--
"Everyone is an expert at something"
Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP - SMS
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/bl...s/default.aspx

Johan Loos wrote:
> Kim,
>
> Try to disable hypertreading in the BIOS and try again.
>
> This one can maybe helps:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;814199
>
> regards
> Johan
> "Kim Oppalfens [MVP]" <""Kim dot Oppalfens\"@google mail.com"> wrote in
> message news:e7heEut$HHA.4496@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Help.
>>
>> I am getting a bit desperate here, I am trying to build a winpe image
>> that I want to boot from a RIS server.
>>
>> But no matter what I try the image seems to refuse initializing the
>> Intel pro 1000 nic, that comes within these Dell optiplex gx 270
>> machines.
>>
>> I have tried several different drivers, tried copying them manually to
>> different locations. Tried integrating them with drvinst, and even by
>> referring to them in risstdrd.sif but no matter what I try I can't
>> seem to get this nic working in windows pe. The image boots fine
>> starts initializing windows pe, sais it initializes the network and
>> subsequently fails. When I run ipconfig I get an error.
>>
>> The strange thing is that if I run netcfg -v -s a it tells me it
>> detects a normal ethernet adapter, the device isn't recognized as
>> being an intel pro 1000 nic.
>>
>> I am starting to run out of ideas, so if anyone has this working, or
>> has some tips on howto troubleshoot this than I would be really grateful.
>> --
>> "Everyone is an expert at something"
>> Kim Oppalfens - Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
>> Windows Server System MVP - SMS
>> http://www.blogcastrepository.com/bl...s/default.aspx
>
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