HP EliteBook 820 G2 - Network Driver - MDT 2013

Question

Hi We have one of the new HP EliteBook 820 G2. When trying to boot from WDS/MDT 2013 into WIN PE it is saying that it cannot connect to the deployment share. because PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15A2&SUBSYS_225A103C&REV_03 - did not have a driver installed. I downloaded the driver pack from http://ftp.hp.com/pub/capssoftpaq/cmit/HP_Driverpack_Matrix_x64.html I imported the network drives into WDS and imported all Drivers from driverpack into MDT. However I am still getting this error. Googling the device returns no results. Can anyone advise?
Thanks 

Answer 1

I think its the middle one. In my environment i have used a drivergroup selection type of installation that will inject the drivers using the computer csproduct name. If your environment doesn't have this then i don't know how you would make it work. In theory it should still pick up the drivers if you are using the "chaos" type of driver selection ie every model fetch the drivers from the same driver folder. Also make sure you do regenerate the WinPE image and then move it over from your deploymentshare to your WDS service. This is crucial because in most environments the location where the new PE image is created is not the same where WDS images are stored. Also remember to put the Windows Deployment Services-service down from services.msc and bring it back up before trying. Use a different file name (or a different background on the deployment as i did) to make sure that the PXE download is in fact updated. I can confirm that this driver package also works on EliteBook 840 G2 although the deployment summary gives me errors connecting to the deploymentshare due to the installation of this driver taking considerably long. I attached a screenshot of my network drivers in WinPE that do work. Importing these to the individual computer model folders below is also required in my environment. This may be different in yours.