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Kickarse, what's this driver scanner you are talking about. ALso...whats the max characters allowed for a sysprep file? I think we have too many items in the drivers portion now and its causing and its causing an issue.

SUCCESS! My company nixed spending money on UIU and Acronis. So my partner, being the super intelligent one, wrote a vbs script that will change the HAL type within a winpe boot. SO we boot to winpe (from a hidden partition on the HD even!), run the VBS script that automatically based on the machine, changes the boot.ini file and then reboot to load the image. Works perfectly on 5 different machines so far!

OK. Here is a thought that I had. 1. I have found numerous places (and tested myself) how to manually change the HAL type in windows (replacing the hal.dll file). 2. I have seen scripts that detect the computer hardware (determining the required HAL type) and then will update the sysprep.inf file. Would it be possible to build a script that would determine the hardware type and then change the HAL file automatically? I am able to boot with the ACPI HAL, but would like to update it to MP_HAL, etc? I have done some scripting and would be able to build the script to update the hal file, but am not sure how to read the hardware type. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

OK. Here is a thought that I had. 1. I have found numerous places (and tested myself) how to manually change the HAL type in windows (replacing the hal.dll file). 2. I have seen scripts that detect the computer hardware (determining the required HAL type) and then will update the sysprep.inf file. Would it be possible to build a script that would determine the hardware type and then change the HAL file automatically? I am able to boot with the ACPI HAL, but would like to update it to MP_HAL, etc? I have done some scripting and would be able to build the script to update the hal file, but am not sure how to read the hardware type. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

OK here is our sysprep.inf ;SetupMgrTag [unattended] unattendedMode=Fullunattended OemSkipEula=Yes InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\Dell\GX520\controller;Drivers\Dell\GX520\Audio\SMAXWDM\ W2K_XP;Drivers\Dell\GX520\Network\winxp;Drivers\Dell\GX520\Video\3;Drivers\IBM\8183\ Audio\SMAXWDM\W2K_XP;Drivers\IBM\8183\Network\PRO100\WS03XP32;Drivers\IBM\8183\ Network\PRO1000\WS03XP32;Drivers\IBM\8183\Video\3;Drivers\HP\DX5150\Audio; Drivers\HP\DX5150\Network;Drivers\HP\DX5150\Video ConfirmHardware=No OverwriteOemFilesOnupgrade=No DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore updateInstalledDrivers=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=password EncryptedAdminPassword=No OEMSkipRegional=1 OEMDuplicatorstring="Universal Image Testing V2.2" TimeZone=20 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=******-PP2YQ FullName="Employee" OrgName="*****, LLC" ComputerName= [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000409 UserLocale=00000409 InputLocale=0409:00000409 [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 [setupMgr] DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386 DistShare=windist [GuiRunOnce] [identification] JoinDomain=******************.com [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [sysprepcleanup] [sysPrep] BuildMassStorageSection=Yes [sysprepMassStorage] and here is our mysysprep.inf file [Manufacturer] ;Dell Inc.=mfg.inf [Model] ;Dell Inc. Optiplex GX520=model.inf ;Dell Inc. Optiplex GX520=mp.inf ;Dell Inc. Optiplex GX520=up.inf HP dx5150 SFF(PZ585UA)=up.inf Optiplex GX520=mp.inf [serialNo] ;Serial No=serial.inf We made the image on the Dell after changing the HAL to apci. and then sealed it up and it works on the DELL and IBM but not the HP

Here is the list of our HALs we have. I have looked at UIU ...which looks wonderful but not cost effective for our company. HP dx5150 halaacpi.dll Laptop HP NX5000 halaacpi.dll Laptop HP NX6110 halaacpi.dll Laptop HP D530S halaacpi.dll Desktop HP D51S halaacpi.dll Desktop HP D5000 halaacpi.dll Desktop HP D510 halaacpi.dll Desktop Dell LT-D510 halaacpi.dll Laptop IBM T42 halacpi.dll Laptop HP NX9008 halacpi.dll Laptop HP NX7000 halacpi.dll Laptop Dell GX520 halmacpi.dll Desktop IBM 8183 halmacpi.dll Desktop Dell LT-D520 halmacpi.dll Desktop HP DC7100 halmacpi.dll Desktop IBM 8148 halmacpi.dll Desktop Dell LT-D820 halmacpi.dll Laptop Dell LT-D620 halmacpi.dll Laptop Dell LT-D420 halmacpi.dll Laptop

Thank you so much, kickarse.

Can anyone explain this a bit fuller for me? Is he saying, change the HAL on each different machine we are using to ACPI and then copy all 5 HAL versions into the .inf file?

My team has been tasked to redo the several different ghost images we have to just one image. We have 5 different HALs that have to be included 3 different desktop HALs and 2 laptops. So far we have been successful with the 1 HAL for the base image. This will be a ghost image so we are using an .inf. Software will be packaged and installed after the base install depending on the computer. Any guidance you gurus have would be greatly appreciated. My team (me and another guy) have limited experience in this although we have a couple of other guys in our group that have done extensive imaging before but won't help cause they are 'too busy'...great team spirit. Thanks in advanced.

awesome, i think that will fix it! thanks for the quickness. That seems to work now. But I am still having an issue with the drivers not installing. Here is my .inf file. ;SetupMgrTag [unattended] unattendedMode=Fullunattended OemSkipEula=Yes InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\Dell\GX520\controller;Drivers\Dell\GX520\Audio;Drivers\Dell\GX520\Network; Drivers\Dell\GX520\Video;Drivers\IBM\8183\Audio;Drivers\IBM\8183\Network;Drivers\IBM\8183\Video; Drivers\HP\DX5150\Audio;Drivers\HP\DX5150\Network;Drivers\HP\DX5150\Video ConfirmHardware=No OverwriteOemFilesOnupgrade=No DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore updateInstalledDrivers=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=e52cac67419a9a224a3b108f3fa6cb6d8846f7eaee8fb117ad06bdd830b7586c EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes OEMSkipRegional=1 OEMDuplicatorstring="Universal Image Testing V2.2" TimeZone=20 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=**************************-PP2YQ FullName="Employee" OrgName="*******, LLC" ComputerName=* [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000409 UserLocale=00000409 InputLocale=0409:00000409 [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 [setupMgr] DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386 DistShare=windist [GuiRunOnce] Command0=C:\newsid\newsid.exe [identification] JoinDomain=************.com [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [sysprepcleanup] I have the drivers in the path C:\Drivers. Do they need to be in C:\sysprep\i386 $OEM\Drivers or another place altogether?

Also the product key has been triple checked to be correct.

I apologize first if this has been asked before. here is my .sif file. What needs to be changed in my file? Also there is a problem with the drivers not installing. Does my OEMPNPDRIVER path need to be under c:\sysprep\i386\$OEM$\Drivers instead of where it is now? I am a newbie at this so please be gentle! Thanks in advance ;SetupMgrTag [Unattended] unattendedMode=Fullunattended OemSkipEula=Yes InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386 OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\Dell\GX520\controller\XP;Drivers\Dell\GX520\Audio\SMAXWDM\W2K_XP; Drivers\Dell\GX520\controllers\XP;Drivers\Dell\GX520\Network\WinXP;Drivers\Dell\GX520\video ConfirmHardware=No OverwriteOemFilesOnupgrade=No DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore updateInstalledDrivers=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="" AutoLogon=No AutoLogonCount=0 EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=20 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=*****-*****-*****-D2C4F-PP2YQ FullName="Employee" OrgName="*****, LLC" ComputerName=*****%SerialNo% [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 [SetupMgr] DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386 DistShare=windist [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Sysprep] BuildMassStorageSection=No [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=0