[WinPE no Video]

Ya the datacenter is in Cheyenne, and part of it runs off the waste via biogas. Its a fairly large factility....

[WinPE no Video]

What is a "sled"?

Why do you plug it in a "chassis"?

What do you mean by "fails"?

What do you mean by "load temporarily"?

 

You need to describe more exactly what you are doing and what you are trying to do and the exact error/problem you are having, consider that the more you describe clearly, exactly and accurately your situation the more likely it is that you will get an appropriate solution or workaround.

Standard Litany, please :

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html

 

Seemingly you are in a situation similar to this one:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/59921-using-winpe-without-a-graphics-card/

 

The specific hardware details are needed anyway and as well the exact version of WinPE may be involved.

 

jaclaz

Unfortunately It's against policy for me to provide anything more than I did

[WinPE no Video]

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.

[winpe start login with administrator]

The command

runas /user:machinename\adminuser cmd

might be of use as well.

[WinPE no Video]

Hey I'm new to the forum and have searched everywhere for an answer to this problem. For a long time I have been using linux PXE scripts to fix servers which dont have any video cards and its worked perfectly until we started getting pushed to use WinPE. If the sled is plugged into the chassis I can PXE boot just fine with either linux or WinPe. The problem however is when we take it back to the troubleshooting station to run diagnostics on it via WinPE it wont work. It loads the image and then fails, i believe because it doesnt have any video. Installing a video card is out of the question. I got it to load temporarily while useing the /quietboot option on the BCD file. However the results are inconsistant. I need to do more to either suppress the video, or alter the conditions so that it doesnt get hung up on it. Any Ideas?

[Introduction]

Hello everyone. My name is tanner and Im from Colorado. I work on datacenter equipment and felt I needed to learn a little more about the microsoft side of things. Hence why I'm here, to help and be helped!