Surface Pro 3 Jan 2015 Intel SerialIO GPIO driver fails with dism

Question

After installed 8.1's ADK onto a Win2k12 server. I am trying to create a WinPE USB device for Surface Pro 3s.

However, when I run:

dism /Add-Driver /Image:c:\WinPE_amd64\mount /Driver:"c:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SurfaceProDriverFiles\Surface Pro 3 - January 2015\Intel\SerialIO\1.1.165.1\iaLPSS_GPIO.inf"

I receive this output:

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Version: 6.3.9600.17029

Image Version: 6.3.9600.16384

Found 1 driver package(s) to install.

Installing 1 of 1 - c:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SurfaceProDriverFiles\Surface Pro 3 - January 2015\Intel\SerialIO\1

.1.165.1\iaLPSS_GPIO.inf: Error - The driver package contains x64 boot-critical drivers, but the drivers are not properl

y signed.

Use the /forceunsigned option to install the drivers.

Error: 50

The request is not supported.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

Is it ok to just ignore this driver when creating WinPE or Win 8.1 based boot images?

Or should I supply /forceunsigned as suggested? I find it very odd that MS/Intel goofed and forgot to properly sign drivers... :(

(I downloaded the drivers from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38826)

Thanks,

Bill

Answer 1

This also apparently applies to these additional INFs from the Jan 2015 Surface Pro 3 zip file:

    'iaLPSS_I2C.inf',
    'iaLPSS_SPI.inf',
    'iaLPSS_UART2.inf',
    'ECFirmware.inf',
    'SamFirmware.inf',
    'TouchFirmware.inf',
    'UEFI.inf',
    'SurfaceAccessoryDevice.inf',
    'SurfaceCapacitiveHomeButton.inf',
    'SurfaceCoverAudio.inf',
    'SurfaceCoverTelemetry.inf',
    'SurfaceDisplayCalibration.inf',
    'SurfaceIntegrationDriver.inf',
    'SurfacePciController.inf',
    'SurfacePen.inf',
    'SurfacePenDriver.inf',
    'SurfaceTouchCover.inf',
    'SurfaceTouchCover2FwUpdate.inf',
    'SurfaceTouchCoverFwUpdate.inf',
    'SurfaceTypeCover.inf',
    'SurfaceTypeCover2FwUpdate.inf',
    'SurfaceTypeCoverFwUpdate.inf',
    'SurfaceTypeCoverV3FwUpdate.inf',
Fyi,Bill

Answer 2

Hello Bill

Thank you for reporting this.  We are passing your discovery on for review.

Best regards

Answer 3

Any luck getting an answer?

Thanks,

Bill

Answer 4

Hi Bill,

After further reviewing your case, we suggest reaching out to our TechNet forum and commercial support to seek further assistance. 

Kind regards,

Clare