Blank Screen ESX5.1 VMWare V9

[khanand]

Hi,

We've stumbled across a bit of a strange problem resulting in blank screen when building Windows 2012 server during the WINPE stage of the build process.

Components involved are iPXE, WIMBoot 5.1, ESX 5.1, Virtual Machine hardware version 9, WINPE 5.1, Windows 2K8 WDS, Windows Server 2012.

The problem seems to occur when WIMBoot calls winload.exe from WINPE 5.1 - the display goes blank but the build continues as normal, just can't be seen! using Virtual Hardware Version 8 works with no issues, it's only when we select VM version 9 in vCenter as the virtual machine does it become a problem. It smacks of VMware driver issues in WINPE, but the latest drivers have been injected into the PE WIM.

Anyone seem anything similar? any help appreciated