HP DC7800 not working in RIS

[peavey]

Hi,

We are trying to get a HPDC7800 working on a RIS server, which we have been using for Dell's for many years and have the process quite licked.

we normally get a new machine and upload the drivers from machine to the default windows image and the XP SP2 image in two places,

\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\NIC and \i386.

which has worked on all machines but not on the HP machine,

I have found some instructions from the HP drivers.

Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft* Windows Server* 2003 (32-bit)

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1. Create an [iMAGE_ROOT]\$oem$\$1\Drivers\NIC directory if one does not already exist.

2. Copy all files from the PRO1000\Win32 directory to the [iMAGE_ROOT]\$oem$\$1\Drivers\NIC directory.

3. Make the following changes to the .SIF file that is used for this image installation (located in the [iMAGE_ROOT]\I386\Templates directory):

[unattended]

OemPreinstall = yes

OemPnpDriversPath = \Drivers\Nic

4. Copy all .SYS files from PRO1000\Win32 directory to the [iMAGE_ROOT]\i386 directory. Do NOT copy the INF files to this directory.

5. Delete E1000325.PNF and E1E5132.PNF (if present) from the [iMAGE_ROOT]\i386 directory.

6. Extract the .INF files from PRO1000\Win32\RIS_INF\E1000325.ZIP and E1E5132.zip to the [iMAGE_ROOT]\i386 directory.

7. Restart the Remote Installation Service.

8. Follow the rest of the Microsoft instructions for adding a new network driver to the RIS installation.

which is a bit different to our normal procedure but we have tried them and this also hasn't helped,

we only have this machine for a short time to trial but we cant get the buga working on ris.

any ideas guys

[snowboard69]

Hi there,

We have just purchased 55 HP DC7800p ultra slim desktops and I have succesfully used RIS to get a Windows XP image on them.

While looking for information on this I found your problem and thought I would respond as this site has helped me many times in the past.

Firstly go to the HP website and get the correct drivers for the Intel NIC for Windows XP found here.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechS...Item=ir-57735-1

Extract the files from the sp38466.exe using something like Winrar.

I then simply followed the instructions found in the readme.txt in PRO1000\Win32\RIS_INF

Go to the PRO100 folder and copy all the files from the Win32 folder to your image_root\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\HP_dc7800NIC directory.

Go to your risndrd.sif file found in the i386\templates directory and edit it so read,

[unattended]

OemPreinstall = yes

OemPnpDriversPath = \Drivers\HP_dc7800NIC

Copy all the .sys files from the PRO1000\Win32 directory to the image_root\i386 directory but don't include the .INF files!

Delete (or better still backup) the following files if found in the i386 directory,

E1000325.PNF

E1E5132.PNF

Extract the INF files from the PRO1000\Win32\RIS_INF\E1000325 and PRO1000\Win32\RIS_INF\E1E5132 and copy them to the i386 directory.

Restart the RIS service and away you go.

Like I said before it worked for me so I hope this helps others.

Si