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Problems with Win 7 Dell Precision 7510 NVME

  • 1.  Problems with Win 7 Dell Precision 7510 NVME

    Posted Jun 16, 2017 09:56 AM

    Hello,

      I have spent weeks and countless hours trying to get this GSS 3.2 (and 3.1 before the update) figured out and I keep hitting roadblock after roadblock. I got this setup so our SATA desktops can image.

    Here is what I have done and tested. So I started by trying to use WinPE 10 for the automation. Which as a side comment, I am doing an automation boot and not PXE, I am not against using PXE but I really don't have a good starting place experience wise. This didn't work out loading just about every driver from the Dell Driver pack and from their WinPE driver packs. As soon as the it boots to Automation and starts loading Windows. I get an error that the drive is not accessable.

    Doing some VM testing from that point I figured out that UEFI boots with Windows 7 wouldn't work with WinPe 10 or even 5. So I loaded WinPe 3.1. So with WinPE 3.1 and WinPE 4 they will go through the loading Windows and hang at the very end. I did most of these tests without loading most of the drivers. So to save some time during the exparement I pushed the automation to a usb stick. Used Dism to update the Wim file. I then did a test boot with the Thumb drive and successfully loaded into the automation. I then replaced the WIM into the installed folder on the desktop. Same result. I would hang at the end of the second cycle in "loading windows".

     

    Full specs are

    Dell Precision 7510

    4core i7

    32GB of Ram

    THNSN5256GPUK Toshiba 256GB NVME PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD

    I219-LM Intel NIC