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UPDATED 5/28/2015: This guide gives step by step instructions to the entire process of adding drivers and rebuilding the WinPE based KBox Boot Environment (KBE)

I wanted to make this mini guide because this is a common problem people experience here at ITNINJA. Often times we get the latest, greatest hardware that requires new drivers and a new KBE to get working. People will often get told what the problem is or the rough idea of how to fix it, but little more than that. This just basically throws everything together so that people can find the sum of the parts and for helpful people to link to. I welcome criticism or recommendations to make the guide more helpful. A few of these steps link to KACE knowledge base articles that are kept up to date by the staff.

So your (new) Dell machine won't finish/start loading the KBE, due to network errors i.e.
"ERROR: Unable to mount K2000 share at \\\peinst"
These issues are (most likely) caused from missing drivers in your current KBE (WinPE 3.0)
To fix these issues follow these steps.

How to Build a New KBOX Boot Environment

And for all Dell machines, the latest, greatest Dell WinPE 3,4,5 CABs can be found here: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Dell+Business+Client+Operating+System+Deployment+-+The+.CAB+Files

If you use the latest Dell drivers be sure to delete the duplicate Dell WinPE driver pack out of the KACE supplied pack you downloaded earlier.

Upload, and re-cache the drivers:
This is the easiest step:
Navigate to your K2000's samba share \\-k2000_ip-\drivers . The username is "admin" and the password is the same one you use to access the PXE KBE boot menu on computers you image; what you set it as in your K2000 settings.
There are 2 folders that you will be working with: kbe_windows_x64 & kbe_windows_x86. Be sure to place your drivers in the correct folders. It is highly recommended that you delete drivers from these two folders that you no longer need/duplicates, i.e. old Dell and KACE driver packs.

Now, in your K2000 management console, navigate to the "Drivers" tab. In the "Actions" drop down select "Recache Drivers". This will navigate you to the recache page where you can select to recache all drivers (This is slow!) in the K2000 or just those drivers in the individuals folders such as kbe_windows_x64 & kbe_windows_x86. 

Then compile and upload the new KBE:

Before you begin:
-Media Manger and WAIK/ADK installs only needs to be done once on each computer you use to build new KBEs.
-It is recommended to name your KBE with date and intended OS deployment.
-When you click "Start Upload" your computer will pop up a command prompt that will look like its not doing anything for 2 mins.
-You must compile and upload a separate KBE for both x86 and x64 systems. 

Follow the steps here to compile and upload your new KBE: http://www.kace.com/support/kb/index.php?action=artikel&cat=70&id=1058&artlang=en

Remember to select your new default KBE under Settings and Maintenance -> General Settings