[Shadowpp]

DOes anyone know if additional video drivers can be added to WinPE? I know that NIC drivers can be merged.....perhaps a video driver can be as well........figured I would ask this group before I started beating my head against the wall over it

[prathapml]

You better start beating your head against the wall/google over it.

I haven't heard yet of a way to do it. And in any case, any way to do so might require too much hacking which will make it difficult to update the CD easily.

You might want to wait for Windows XP's SP2 to be released, though. I've seen the betas, and it has an updated set of drivers (even the latest nVidia and ATi WDM graphics cards are supported). It's scheduled to be released round-a-bout's june this year (that's if MS doesn't get bogged down by another of their oh-so-common delays in finalising that update patch).

[likuidkewl]

I asked M$ here is what I got back:

Quote

Thanks for your post.

This value would be included in what ever winbom.ini you normally have
processed when WinPE boots.  If you get a Red Check next to setting the
resolution section of the GUI, then the default video driver does not
support that resolution you specified in your Winbom.ini  for the Video
Card installed in the system.

The video driver can not be updated in WinPE at this time, but this is 
being looked at in future versions of the product.  

Regards,

Erik -SBST

E-mail: SBST@microsoft.com

[Shadowpp]

Thanks for the info!

[likuidkewl]

If you are feeling up to the head beating thing, you look in the
WINPESYS.INI (This is where the registry entries for the VGA adapter are stored)

HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave","ErrorControl",0x00010003,0
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave","Group",0x00000000,"Video Save"
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave","ImagePath",0x00020000,"\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\vga.sys"
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave","Start",0x00010001,1
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave","Tag",0x00010001,1
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave","Type",0x00010001,1
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave\Video","VideoID",0x00000000,"{23A77BF7-ED96-40EC-AF06-9B1F4867732A}"
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave\Video","Service",0x00000000,"VgaSave"
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave\Device0","InstalledDisplayDrivers",0x00010000,"vga", "framebuf", "vga256", "vga64k"
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Services\VgaSave\Device0","VgaCompatible",0x00010001,1
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Control\Video\{23A77BF7-ED96-40EC-AF06-9B1F4867732A}\Video","Service",0x00000000,"VgaSave"
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Control\Video\{23A77BF7-ED96-40EC-AF06-9B1F4867732A}\0000","InstalledDisplayDrivers",0x00010000,"vga", "framebuf", "vga256", "vga64k"
HKLM,"ControlSet001\Control\Video\{23A77BF7-ED96-40EC-AF06-9B1F4867732A}\0000","VgaCompatible",0x00010001,1

[gosh]

WinPE is just xp/server 2003, there's no reason you can't change the drivers. Couldn't you use winbom.ini or winpeoem.sif?

-gosh

[likuidkewl]

I found an easy way around it, just use a XP Pro SP2 CD, to build your winpe iso, then you get all the updated drivers, etc. It does pass the validation phase of the mkimg command.

[gosh]

To disable the validation just edit the batch file and change CheckOS=1 to CheckOS=0 or whatever, that'll disable validation.

-gosh

[likuidkewl]

I did that the first time, I just wanted to make sure you could get away with it, before spouting off to eveyone how to edit the mkimg cmd and garbage..