I have been going round and round with Dell's Optiplex 760 Nic drivers trying to get them to load correctly in Windows PE 3.0. Has anyone ever seen this issue? The driver that Windows PE does load works slightly but looks like it has major latency issues, I monitored the throughput with an FTP server loaded on the system center box. I could never get a directory list from FTP. I switched to an older Windows PE 2.1 and everything worked perfectly, but i would like to start loading Windows 7 and will need the new Windows PE 3.0 but these drivers will not load "Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection"

I researched the drivers that the windows PE 3.0 is loading here is the lines below:

Spent 1061ms installing network components
Info Installing device pci\ven_8086&dev_10de X:\windows\INF\net1k32.inf succeeded
Info Spent 3276ms installing network drivers
Info UGC process exit code is 0x00000000
Info Executed UGC; identity[Microsoft-Windows-TCPIP, Culture=neutral, Version=6.1.7100.0,

Turns out this is the release to manufacture drivers from windows 7, and to add the driver for the correct nic has been loaded on the Windows PE 3.0 boot disk by SCCM and it still tries to load this driver during OSD!

The driver that it should be loading is "e1k6032.inf" is there any way to make Windows PE 3.0 use this driver instead of the drivers that come preloaded with the default Windows PE 3.0 build?

Seems like a PNP fail to me.