

Wow, Dell and Intel, why are you making it so ridiculously complex and standard-breaking to install USB 3.0 on your new hardware using standard Windows imaging tools? FINALLY, the system boots from WDS and USB 3.0 now works. O:\Setup\Driver Installers\Dell official - Intel USB 3.0 - 4.0.4.51-A02\Drivers\Win7\圆4>Īpply image to test 7040 with WDS 7040 drivers, but disable these in WDS driver packages: iusb3hcs, iusb3hub, iusb3xhc This computer " doesn't meet the requirements", and it REFUSES to install.Įxtract drivers package, go to each INF directory, open an elevated command prompt, and I reload the clean Windows 7 image, and install the Dell USB 3.0 driver. Okay, back to VMWare and our build platform. This is why WDS and the driver preinstallation exists, to prevent having to do this one machine at a time after imaging. But we are absolutely not supposed to be doing this. Meanwhile if I image the 7040 without any Intel USB 3.0 and use it in "drunken mouse" mode, I can then manually post-install the Dell USB 3.0 driver and everything suddenly starts working. except there are no USB storage devices?Ħ. I get a BSOD and a STOP 0x0000007E which usually means inaccessible boot device. I tried re-using an old image from last year where I preinstalled the USB 3.0 drivers for the 7020, and when these install on a 7040 with Dell's / Intel's USB 3.0 driver. I also built a maximally updated Windows 7 SP1 image in VMWare, with every possible Windows Update, and absolutely no included drivers (due to building in the VM) and I get the same result imaging with this and Dell's or Intel's USB 3.0 driver. I tried disabling Dell's provided drivers ( iusb3hcs, iusb3hub, iusb3xhc) and using a USB 3.0 driver package straight from Intel ( Intel USB 3.0 xHC - Skylake MR6 PV 4.0.6.60), and I get the same results with the mouse stuck in the top left corner, and keyboard doesn't work.Ĥ.

The Device Manager shows everything installed except for the USB controller.ģ. If I do the same imaging and exclude the USB 3.0 drivers (iusb3hcs, iusb3hub, iusb3xhc) then USB devices do work after imaging, but in a weird slow and delayed manner, as if I were using the computer while drunk. I can't move the mouse or use the keyboard.Ģ. Using a completely pristine Windows 7 64-bit SP0 image with no preinstalled drivers, and the Dell IT driver package for Windows 7, the system will image but then when complete, the USB 3.0 drivers have completely failed. The ones for the 7020 were awful too, but these continue to frustrate and block me at every step of the way.ġ. The new Intel USB 3.0 drivers are terrible. We purchased some Dell Optiplex 7040 in June, and I have battling these, trying to get them to work with Windows Deployment Services and Windows 7 64-bit.
