Intel ICH8USB drivers demystified

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For the folks that are having difficulties with the Intel ICH8USB drivers there is a simple explanation and workaround.

Explanation

The driver references a system DLL (usbui.dll), which is not present in Windows PE.  This causes the driver installation to fail, and since it’s considered a boot critical device (chipset), the task sequence may fail.

Workaround

  1. Add usbui.dll to the content of the Intel chipset drivers
  2. Add usbui.dll to the boot images in the windows\system32 folder

Contributed by John Lang