Driver installation issue...

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Hello.
I'm trying to deploy Windows 7x64 on a ThinkPad W520 and I encountered some problems with video card driver. The video card installed on the system is Nvidia Quadro 1000M.
So, I imported all the drivers for this model into SCCM 2007, I created a package for those drivers and updated DP's and I added the package into Windows 7x64 task sequence. After deploying this task sequence to the w520, all the drivers that I have added
to sccm were installed, except the video card which uses a generic microsoft driver.
I found in setupact.log the following lines:
2011-10-21 11:58:05, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: {Retrieving drivers used by device PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DFA&SUBSYS_21D117AA&REV_A1\4&F1563AD&0&0008}
2011-10-21 11:58:05, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No device setup class has been specified for device PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DFA&SUBSYS_21D117AA&REV_A1\4&F1563AD&0&0008. We will not attempt
to retrieve the device's class filter drivers.
2011-10-21 11:58:05, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No function driver specified for device PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DFA&SUBSYS_21D117AA&REV_A1\4&F1563AD&0&0008.
2011-10-21 11:58:05, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No device upper filter drivers are specified for device PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DFA&SUBSYS_21D117AA&REV_A1\4&F1563AD&0&0008
2011-10-21 11:58:05, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No device lower filter drivers are specified for device PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DFA&SUBSYS_21D117AA&REV_A1\4&F1563AD&0&0008
The drivers were properly imported into sccm, I've tested the installation of drivers using "Update Driver" feature in Device Manager and works fine.
How can I get SCCM to properly install video drivers during windows setup like it does for all other hardware devices?

Answer 1

Hi Quan xu,
Thanks for you answer. I already tried that and didn't work. 
I think the driver is not working because when sccm copies the drivers to DP, it only copies the files that are in the same folder as inf file, but nvidia inf file has references to the setup.exe and other executable files that are not in the same folder
as inf file. I noticed that if I update the driver using windows wizard and point directly to DP folder it will not install the driver (windows encountered problems....), but when trying that and pointing to the driver source folder (where all the files and
folders of nvidia installer are located) the driver is installed correctly, and also it will install nvidia control panel and other applications inside Program Files.
The workaround that I found is to create a package and silent install original nvidia setup. But if you not add 1 in the "Succes Codes" bar (near 0 and 3010) it will fail, I think this is because Nvidia Setup successfull exit code is 1.
It works now, I will see if there will be problems because of the nvidia software installed on the machines...
Hi,
What switches did you use to install the nvidia drivers. I am trying to install the quadro drivers using SCCM but the driver install fails within the OSD task sequence. I think you might need to be logged on as a user for the installation to work. The installs
are for our HP desktop machines not Lenovo. However, we use Lenovo W520, X220 and T420 also .
For your Lenovo models, have you tried using Lenovo's ThinInstaller utility combined with Lenovo Updater Retriever (LUR) 4.2? LUR 4.2 allows you to download all the drivers for each model and then export them into SCCM. I haven't tried that function personally
as we use the thininstaller utility to download and install the drivers from a local DFS share.