Bart’s Blog

When trying to create a Vista reference image via an SCCM Operating System install package, my Task Sequence kept failing on the “Configuring Windows and ConfigMgr” task. Vista setup returned “error 31″ (boot critical device driver issue). 

The setupapi log showed that the system was failing on ICH7USB.INF.

Apparently the driver references USBUI.DLL. This file is not present on WinPE.

Copying USBUI.DLL from a Vista machine to the windows\system32 directory of your PE boot image will serve as a workaround.