First off yes I work at a datacenter with 100's of thousands of servers. If you type "computer sleds in chassis" into google pictures your sort of get an idea of what I work with. However, moving onto my solution I was able to get the the WINPE image to load regardless of a graphics chip being present or not. I used BCDedit to include the following option BCDEDIT /set {default} /novesa on /store C:/path/to/BCD It took a while to find this option and its no available on later PE images however, /noVga seems to do the same thing if /noVesa isn't supported.