Windows Deployment Screen going blank and out of range

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For some reason, all our Windows 7 deployment images seem to have developed a stange issue. As the install gets to the end of the process, the monitor is going blank and displaying 'out of range' messages. We have tried it on a couple of monitors and a couple of machines put same outcome.

I've dug into the logs in the \panther folder, and come accross a strange entry in \panther\unattendGC\setupact.log, it says -

2012-10-24 09:07:56, Info                         [msoobe.exe] Display mode is set to 1280x1024x32 [1Hz]

This seemed very odd (a refesh of 1Hz?), so i checked an older machine and it was set to 60hz as id expect.

Anyone know where this setting is comming from?

Cheers Luke

Have you recently made any changes to.the out of box drivers? — Tim Brigham, Oct 24 '12 at 11:13
some new ones might have been added, i did'nt think adding new ones would break anything? — beakersoft, Oct 24 '12 at 15:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '12 at 15:34

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I opened the unatend.xml file on the task, found a display setting under OOBE and removed it. This seemed to do the trick

answered Oct 30 '12 at 15:34

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 24 '12 at 15:42

It is possible when adding a new out of box driver for the new injected driver to have problems when used in a PE / WDS / MDT setup. I would suggest that you pull any new drivers, update your deployment share and republish your images. If that helps readd your drivers one by one.

Windows Deployment Screen going blank and out of range

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