It seems like they are going to update the cabs to a new version in January, which may fix the problem. Since they have discontinued production on the E6430s, it doesnt allow me for much time however. I have been lucky to be in contact with a higher tier support agent from Dell, I will post findings after we tinker.  

I have exactly the same scenario ..incredibly identical - but I just called Dell and they can still ship out 6430's, so I'm buying a few, and then sort this 6440 problems in the new year.

E6440 Win7 cab was updated on 11/30.  I haven't heard of any E6440 cab issues besides the KMDF 1.11 issues that are addressed with a Microsoft update.  If you don't have the KMDF 1.11 update included in your build, you will have issues.

Get the new cab here -> http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/4963.latitude-e6440-windows-7-driver-cab.aspx

Thank you Warren. I was able to change the drivers around in my driver package with the new CAB. Updated all distrobution points, imaged my test laptop sucesfully. My After logging in I was presented with the same "pop-ups" as before. They come up everytime I log in.

I cross checked all driver version numbers with the CAB Delta Report, they look good. I also double checked the KMDF 1.11 update, looks good as well. UAC is set to Never Notify,

I was able to speak with the Dell rep today, and he seemed to think it was a driver signing issue. he mentioned that if I were to take a look at the driver signatures, they would most likely be expired, and Windows 7 64bit is fairly sensative to this. In the meantime, he had mentioned to try using the 6430 drivers as most componants are the same besides the video and network cards. He is going to test deployment on SCCM 2007 and 2012 to see what results he is getting. I will update in a few days.  

Hi ,

The "Open File - Security Warning" pop up  can be resolved by using streams tool.  Find the below example to use streams.exe

Eg:

To resolve the issue for "REALTEKAUDIO.exe" use this command "streams.exe /d REALTEKAUDIO.exe"

Please go through the below link it will be helpful,
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/11/12/open-file-security-warning-prompt-during-deployment.aspx

Note: Try the above command on test laptop before trying it in all laptops

John,

Check out the link below. It has helped me find out which driver is the one that works before uploading and injecting into my boot image.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO9542

Hope it helps.

Hi Mike,

You mention that you managed to inject the drivers successfully into the task sequence. So far I cannot get the correct NIC driver into my boot.wim image. It keeps failing at the Task sequence step - 'Applying network settings' just after I PXE boot then it simply reboots the PC. I F8 at this step and no network settings are present so I know it's a NIC driver issue.

I have tried 7 different windows 7 64-bit drivers and no luck. Strangely if I build the PC manually and install the same driver that fails it works fine!! So far Dell support cannot resolve even after getting me to revert the BIOS to A01.

Can you thrown any light on what NIC driver you used and how you applied it during your task sequence?

Many thanks in advance,

John

Will do and thanks.

Still seems crazy that the driver works in a manual OS install but pooches out during a PXE-task sequence.

Got to love Dells.

John

After following Franuzz's suggestion, and taking 2 hours to sift through dozens of NIC drivers, I found the one that worked:

The e1d3x64 driver for.......wait for it......Windows 8!!

So this driver functions for use within the boot.wim image during  PXE deployment BUT my OS image then installs the Windows 7 NIC driver and that works.

Thanks for the help.

John

Which version of WinPE are you using?