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Amending Drivers for deployment

Asked by JamesMayers in Windows XP Operating System

We have just received new hardware into our environment which must have the drivers loaded onto our software deployment tool (Not SMS!)

The drivers have been added to the 'cache' and the PC builds as per usual but the VGA adapter isnt being recognised.

Our deployment tool has an 8 DOT 3 limit. So you can only have 12345678.DLL.

Unfortunately some drivers recently released by intel contain too many characters so the files were having their names changed and subsequently the driver install was failing.

I've amended the INF to reflect the new file names but during the automated win PXE boot and subsequent windows setup & configuration the file is still not being installed.

Now here lies the giveaway! ... If I manually update the drivers using the Have Disk method and point the machine to the exact INF file within the local copy of the driver cache it works fine (and recognises ive changed the file name!)

If I use the other method of specify a location to search within a folder for drivers, it finds 3 sets of drivers and subsequently fails.

Now my question is, What type of file could be causing this? Ive amended the only INF file in the folder but there must be something else windows is seeing which makes it things that there are more drivers available within that folder.

We cant simply use the exe install as a workaround, This image must be hardware independant so resolving this is critical.
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