941947 - Nvidia driver silently failing during the MDT installation

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: General, task)

Description

[Mark Cornmesser [:markco]]

The initial cause of the failure was a pending reboot was immediately causing the driver to fail installation quietly. After the pending reboot was removed it was still failing on a service installation error. Though the service was being installed. This error was being trigger by a conflicting issue between the media pack and the Nvidia install. The media pack install had to placed after the Nvidia install in the task sequence. As well as the media pack install gpo removed from the OU, which was a temp GPO to cover existing machines that did not receive the install during the initial imaging. The reason why the GPO was causing an issue is because during the domain recovery task sequence, if a machine already has a domain account, a gpupdate will occur. 


The reason why this failing silently is because the Nvidia install was being done as an "Install Application" in the task sequence, which is correct, but the Nvidia install itself was terminating but not erroring out to MDT, so MDT saw it as a completed step instead of a failed step. 




The Nvidia 314.07 application install, under details, now includes a -log:C:\Nvidia flag. This will place the various installation logs into the included directory, so if there are future issues with the driver install we will have logs of the installation.