Intel WiDi install always fails with 1603 error
We've downloaded the latest Intel WiDi drivers (3.1.29) for our Lenovo T430 and X230 laptops. All the other drivers for the devices work fine apart from the WiDi driver. We install all of the other drivers before the WiDi one and reboot to ensure it has all of it's prerequisites, and it still doesn't work. For info, Wifi driver we're using is Intel PROSet Wireless 15.2 and WiDi is supporting on these models of laptop.
Using setup.exe /?, you can see that the recommended command line is setup.exe /s /v/qn. Every time you run this you get a return code of 1603, which doesn't tell us much...
I've tried just running setup.exe /s and setup.exe /s /v/qb to view progress, but that gives the same result. I've also tried using the extracted MSI from within the temp directory and using that with msiexec /i "Intel(R) WiDi.msi" /qb, but that doesn't work either (again, 1603 error).
Here is the log file from the install: Microsoft SkyDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Web Apps.
Installing it manually does work fine, but we need to script it as we are deploying it to thousands of clients. Has anyone come across this and solved it? We're installing on clean Windows images by the way
TIA.
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We're trying to use SCCM 2012 to deploy the Intel WiDi 6.0.60.0 to Dell 7710s and get the same results. WiDi will install when the user is logged on (silently or not) but won't install when they are not. Having the task sequence run as a user doesn't work either. One has to actually be logged in. We get incompatible h/w (can't be if manual install works) or sometimes get error that newer version of software is already installed (no WiDi installed yet). There must be some internal modules that can't handle running with System or simulated account. WiDi 6.0.52.0 WILL install but it doesn't work with this new model PC. Only 6.0.60.0 will work. So for now we're deploying after the build. - rejohnson 8 years ago
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Have you tried granting the system account full acces to the destination folder? 1603 errors aren't necessarily generic and are many times occured when the system account t is used to install to a destination where it doesn't have sufficient rights.
I finally got this working during image deployment in SCCM 2012 R2 using the command line provided by HP here: ftp://g4u0180.houston.hp.com/ftp4/pub/softpaq/sp74001-74500/sp74021.cva
"Setup.exe" GFX=F /S /v"/qn WIDIAPP_DESKTOP_SHORTCUT=0 DISABLE_IWD_UPDATES=1 /log C:\temp\Intel_WiDi.log"
With Latest WiDi version "allow users to interact with this programm" and instalation goes fine .... Without this parametter instalation fails with 1603.
This Platform is not Compatible for the Intel WiDi Communication Manager installation to proceed
apparently your hardware does not support Widi?
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check Lenovo why this occurs? - jaybee96 12 years ago
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are you sure you are using the latest drivers..
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT073834 - jaybee96 12 years ago -
As I stated in my initial post... "Installing it manually does work fine". I can run the MSI manually and it will install perfectly, it is only scripting it with MSIEXEC that does not work.
Again, I have the latest Lenovo drivers and my device IS supported as it shipped with it in the OEM image.
The "platform not compatible" error is just a generic message that it spits out when it can't install I reckon. My command line is msiexec /i "Intel(R) WiDi.msi" /qn. I've tried renaming the MSI, using /qb and all sorts, nothing worked. - TheMagic89 12 years ago
