Driver not holding in place

I am having a very difficult problem to pinpoint and fix. We install our Windows 7 OSD via task sequence. It all works and the machine comes up fine. I will log into a finished machine and the screen resolution is set to 1280 x
1024. I reboot and log back in and the screen resolution is 800 x 600 and my driver is a generic driver. The problem is this behavior is inconsistant. In fact we only see this about 1 out of 3 times. And all the hardware is
the same. All Dell Optiplex desktops.
What would cause something like this?
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The only time I have experienced something like this is when sysprep strips out the drivers and using PersistAllDeviceInstalls in the unattend.xml file resolves this problem but the drivers would be removed immediately after sysprep and not after
a reboot. Is there anything set in the SetupComplete.cmd file in C:\Windows\Setup\Scripts\ folder of the devices? Or is anything specified as a run once?
Cheers
Paul | sccmentor.wordpress.com

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