Andrey_au

Good day, I am relying a lot on my USB HD, as I'm running some virtual machines from it as well play around a lot with different USB flash drives. I experince following problems: 1. I have changed settings in Dev Manager to Quick Removal in drive properties and in USB root hub "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". I changed power profile on USB drives so they don't sleep ever. From properties I had a look and hard drive consumes only 2 mA. But still it won't can't disable write cache or whatever it is and for some reason my HD from time to time looses it's green light and looks like it went to sleep, VM start to perform slowly then... Afterwards i've tried to copy the VM from the USB HD to another PC. I had troubles safely removing the usb HD, and when I copy it says that the file is inconsistent. So I plugged the hd back into my win 7 laptop and copied the files over the network and everything went fine... My suspicion on power issue is: from time to time I charge my BB from my laptop, and if I look in Dev Manager BB and HD will always be under same USB hub, i've tried plugging in devices into 3 different ports separately and anyway they will be under same USB hub. So i have decided to test on my USB mouse. If i plug it into different ports it comes up under different USB hubs... How does that work?!!! 2. Just USB flash drives. Sometimes they come up sometimes they don't. Depends on the content of the drive, if I plug it into anything else. even to a VM on same Win 7, it will work just fine... Anyone experienced same or knows workarounds fixes? Thank you, Andrey

Hey guys, after more research and following win nt startup process step by step, i located where the problem happens. It happens at Session Manager stage, after succesfully creating environment variables (registry entry changes from original to this particular laptop). There are still 5 steps according to wiki on win nt start up process : So i took a healthy system and renamed 1 by 1 win32k.sys, csrss.exe and winlogon.exe via PE env, in each instance system restarts without dump or any log. As I know something about winlogon process, I did rename msgina.dll, which causes healthy windows system to give an error message that your gina file is missing or corrupt, bla bla bla On the laptop after renaming same file didn't get me to error message, that means that it gets stuck somewhere in the middle. any ideas on better way of troubleshooting? anyways, gonna dig into Session Manager Subsystem... though only have couple of days left

I "narrowed" down a problem. Installed 2 systems from scratch and if I copy repair registry from the laptop to my universal image then everything works fine. So now just need to find the difference between system and software registry on 2 systems, less than 400 kb of text...

true, as per our experience we have around 40 different hardware platforms from different manufacturers, 80% work as per your explanation But if you have sysprep already configured and you know what you doing, it might be quicker just sysprep it straight away p.s. nothing personal, but if you have ACER then sysprep

Hey mate, you need to sysprep with drivers loaded, find the drivers on intel website, extract them to sysprep folder (e.g. C:\sysprep\i386\ahci), then in bmsd section specify the drivers and sysprep, it will take about 20 mins, then start up and everything should be cracking. If you sysprep system 2nd time, bmsd might not work, MS glitch, but 3rd time should work. exmaple of lines you need in sysprep.inf for AHCI/RAID Intel controller+build of all default IDE controllers: [sysprep] BuildMassStorageSection = Yes [sysprepMassStorage] PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2681&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C1&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2821&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2829&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2922&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2929&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3A22&CC_0106=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2682&CC_0104=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104=C:\sysprep\i386\ahci\iastor.inf I assume you can leave buildmassstorage as NO, as you won't need other controllers, and it should take less time to sysprep.

Hey mate, Thanks for reply. Double checked the setting and changed it, but there is not BSOD, it just shut downs itself... Eventhough if automatic restart is enabled for very short moment you can see BSOD if it's there, so doesn't really matter as in 90% of cases it will produce a dump file, as some users won't be able to restart computer after BSOD Hals are exactly the same, checked already, as systems are both quite new (less than 6 month old), and hals on all my systems past 2004 are same But came up with another idea, will test tomorrow and update

Good day, Have a problem with acer tm6292. I have 1 sysprepped universal image and addon images with drivers and extra applications. Image works fine with all current hardware – hp, acer desktops and notebooks, but TM6292. After image is complete, I start the laptop it shows windows startup screen, and after about 30-40 seconds when sysprep should appear it shuts down. 100% not HD controller problem, as for example tried on 7220, 6592, 6293 with same AHCI/IDE controllers, works just fine. I rebuilt image on VmWare, after win xp install sysprepped straight away, same result. The only way so far to work around this problem is to install Win straight onto the laptop. No dump files appear. Is there any way to track what triggers the shutdown? was trying to compare registry of image installed straight to the laptop and universal image, but it's not easy, unless you know what to look for... any suggestions will be appreciated cheers.