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I had a working sysprep image for a bunch of Dell PCs. I made some changes cleaning up my OEM drivers, now I can't seem to get an Intel Pro1000/MT NIC to install on Dell GX260s and GX270s. they actually use the same driver, but dell has them on different versions. I have the correct drivers in the OEM folders on my image.
c:\Drivers\*
*GX260\NIC
*GX270\NIC
My OEPnPDriversPath includes this path, ihave doubles checked the registry after the install and it appears to be OK. I tried the drivers from Intel's website. I have even tried their corrected INFs for RIS installs but that does nothing. When XP boots, i can log in locally and it detects new hardware. It even knows that it is an Intel Pro1000/MT, but the driver is not isntalled. If i point it to either directory with the driver, it's happy and installs fine. What I can't figure out is why won't it find it during PNP detection. It worked before, and the changes I made were not major...mainly just cleaning up duplicate and old drivers. Anything i should be look at in particular? this is driving me crazy.

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[cluberti]

Have you tried using the actual Intel driver, from Intel's site? I've done RIS installs on these machines in the past without seeing these issues, but I tend not to use Dell's driver sets. Consider using the Intel driver for these NICs.