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I'm looking for a replacement for the ol' trusty nu2menu for 64bit WinPE. I don't need anything fancy, it only need the same feature level as nu2menu provided: a simple menu to launch applications, driven by a text file. At first I saw this: http://winpe.codeplex.com/ But it's too complex for my taste to customize: you need to edit the .hta, then a .vbs, and then create an image file with the icon and caption

Did this changed in the last years? You're right, VMWare didn't emulate the CPU, it expose the host CPU. In my case the Xeon W3680 of my MacPro. My image is running great, but I'll look into this to see what can be tweaked.

My standard image is made on Intel computers, so it did include intelppm.sys. Also, when I took a basic, made from scratch, image from a X100e and copied it to another computer or a VM emulating an Intel CPU, the PnP detection part of the mini-setup added intelppm.sys. So, when I copied back the basic image to a X100e, intelppm.sys was now present and active. Setting the intelppm service to on-demand start did fix the problem.

Does this image load intelppm.sys at default? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953356/ Set driver intelppm to demand start=3. OMFG! YES! This is it! It's working now! I can finally sleep!

Well, I've also tried copying the image to a real PC, booting it up, reseal it, transfer it back to the netbook and it gives me a BSOD. The point of all this is I want my image to be universal across different models. I never counted how many models my current image supports, but I guess I can install it at least on 12-15 different models without needing to add any drivers afterwards. In the procedure I described at the top of the thread, I could've created the original master on a VM or on another model of computer, but then I wouldn't be sure if it's because the source machine is incompatible with the netbook. EDIT: Creating a new master image on a X100e and using it only on other X100e's works, but I already have a standard image with a ton of customization work done on it. I'd like to avoid to start a master image from scratch. The procedure described here is to show how much I've tried to isolate the problem. My hope is to find a solution to this puzzle with this context and I would be able to fix my current master image so it will work on this model of netbook.

Nope, it didn't work. I removed all the non-microsoft drivers and I upgraded the AMD AHCI driver with the one supplied on Lenovo's website.

I already have version 10.1 in my driver library, but I'll give it a try without iaStor.

At work, we've got a new batch of netbooks and I am tasked to adapt our current XP-based image to it. After adding the necessary mass storage driver to sysprep.inf and checking that the correct HAL is installed, the netbooks always give a BSOD 0x0000007E. Netbook model is Lenovo ThinkPad X100e. I've tried many things, removing anything from my that might conflict. I'm down to the following procedure and still getting the same BSOD. Install Windows XP SP3 from a USB key (usb key made with WinSetupFromUSB). The AMD ahcix86 had been patched into the setup prior to WinSetupFromUSB. Once Windows installed, I added my driver library from a USB key and everything got detected. No exclamation or question marks in the device manager. I ran sysprep to reseal the machine. After the machine shut down, I ghosted the resulting image to a VMWare machine. After imaging, both the X100e and the VMWare machine are running perfectly. I sysprep/reseal the VMware machine with the exact same sysprep configuration as in step 3. Ghost over the sysprep'd image to the X100e STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0xF76A2756,0xF79B942C,0xF79B9128) on the X100e, VM is fine. This is the sysprep.inf I used: ;SetupMgrTag [Unattended] OemSkipEula=Yes InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386 TargetPath=\WINDOWS ; UpdateHAL = ACPIPIC_UP,%WINDIR%\inf\hal.inf ; UpdateHAL = ACPIAPIC_UP,%WINDIR%\inf\hal.inf [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 AutoLogon = Yes AutoLogonCount = 1 [GuiRunOnce] Command0="reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl /V AutoReboot /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f" Command1="cmd /c del %windir%\system32\$winnt$.inf" [UserData] ProductKey=ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PQRST-XYZ12 FullName="Company name" OrgName="Company Name" ComputerName=* [TapiLocation] CountryCode=107 AreaCode=450 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000c0c UserLocale=00000c0c InputLocale=0c0c:00001009 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=MASTER ; JoinDomain=domain.company.local ; DomainAdmin=sysprep ; DomainAdminPassword=confidential [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Sysprep] [SysprepMassStorage] ; Bunch of lines removed to keep this short ; generated with sysprep -bmsd ; and cleaned up to remove unused ; SCSI and exotic devices PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2681&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C1&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2821&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2829&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2922&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2929&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3A22&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3A02&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B29&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B2F&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B22&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B29&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B2F&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B22&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03&CC_0106=c:\drivers\intelsata\iaahci.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2682&CC_0104=c:\drivers\intelsata\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104=c:\drivers\intelsata\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104=c:\drivers\intelsata\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104=c:\drivers\intelsata\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104=c:\drivers\intelsata\iastor.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_280A103C=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_2814103C=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4392=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4391=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4393=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_101E1462=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_10221462=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_10201462=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_305817AA=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_305717AA=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_2A89103C=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_00421B0A=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_00431B0A=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_3054103C=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_3055103C=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_0184107B=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_0FFF0FFF=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_B0051458=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_B0031458=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_02131025=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_02111025=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_02161025=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_6B311462=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_6B321462=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_021D1025=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4381&SUBSYS_43811002=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_43821002=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_43811002=c:\drivers\amdahci\ahcix86.inf [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768