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Ah wait, I am confused as to where you are getting this black screen error. Is it while booting off the DVD/PXE or during the second phase installation? Try having only the disk/volume you want the OS installed to connected. Disconnect any other drives including any USB or card-reader types. Windows Setup sometimes will write boot files on another volume, causing the second phase of installation (the part that boots off the HDD) generate a BCD error.

Well my Google Chrome is currently up to version 37... Microsoft can use this method if they want, but they'll have to try something new once it starts getting close to version 95.

Was Windows 9 so bad they decided to skip it altogether?

Its funny, that guy isn't even using that "computer" he is standing in front of.

I totally suggest this too. The information is present in Post #2 of this thread.

Ok I went back to read the first post. You refer to your problem with "the" Windows 7 Pro x64 image. The incompatibility I outlined will exist in other Windows 7 x64 images as well. Is this not the case or did you not add the same drivers to all your images? Did you disable driver signing? Do you keep track of what drivers you are adding for what reason or did you just add a bunch all at once? I qualify a new system and verify it works once at a time. When I ran into this USB problem, I was able to determine the cause because I knew what drivers I had added in between the working and non-working deployments. I also keep backups of images in case such a thing happens, so I can roll back to a working set while troubleshooting the issue. If a worst case scenario occurs, I would be left with having to rebuild the image from scratch OR creating a new version for affected devices. I've had to do that once already during the Windows 7 SP1 lifecycle and it wasn't fun. Intel USB3 drivers have 2 or 3 INFs. Removing the iusb3xhc ones should be enough, however they also have a hub INF called iusb3hub. If you want to eliminate all USB related drivers, create a copy of the problem image, then using the DISM /GET-DRIVERS output (not the /ALL switch) remove all drivers shown as being from Intel and USB type. Redeploy the test image and see what happens.

Well those two oem names I posted were a guess. You'll have to determine it for yourself. If you find any INF with the REV_05, remove it from the image with DISM. And as I said before, it is a known issue that the USB drivers I am talking about will cause this BSOD, but I am not saying it is what is causing your BSOD. I didn't find anything in the setupact.log. The log is incomplete, as evidenced that the bugcheck occurred and it didn't seem to write anything to a log about it.

How is the compatibility with Office 2003 and Windows 7? Bellzemos, will you be getting 32bit or 64bit?

Ok some of these you'll have to inspect yourself. I see you had taken drivers from another OS, so their original filenames are not preserved. If I were to guess, I'd say look at the published names oem148 and 149 with version 2.5.1.28. I don't keep old driver versions around, but the offending version I have is 2.5.0.19. You'll need to search the drivers folder by mounting the image. Search for containing text. The USB driver issue is with these hardware IDs: VEN_8086&DEV_8C31 VEN_8086&DEV_9C31 The older drivers will have a REV_00 to REV_04 in the HwID list. The new drivers will have those plus a REV_05. Remove any drivers with the REV_05. Original filename is iusb3xhc.inf Now, I'd like to point out that it isn't confirmed that your problem is the USB driver issue. You might have it set up like this, and resolving it may not solve your error.

The official word (no pun intended) You can buy Windows 7 OEM System Builder Kit from major online retailers like Amazon or Newegg, so probably other online shops too. That media isn't licensed/intended for personal use. The Office license doesn't permit being moved from the original computer. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2003-office_install/office-2003-oem-reinstall/69fe900c-1340-48d2-b11c-cedefcdd8a60 Microsoft wants you to buy new Office and buy the more expensive Windows 7.

The results you post have the appearance of being from a stock WIM and not a modified one. You didn't inject those printer drivers either. Verify you are checking against the correct image and (if relevant) index. Also check for the setupact.log in C:\windows\panther of the PC that can't boot.

Hmm you used the /all switch huh. Do you get different results without it? When using /all you see the MS ones, which aren't likely to be the problem. Your DISM output shows no third-party drivers, which have a published name starting with oem. Also, bugcheck 0x7E on first boot after deployment can be caused by having REV_05 and a lower REV (3 or 4) drivers for Intel USB 3.0 controllers in the same image. Reference (if applicable to you) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/9af3ae94-bcc9-4d26-a31b-67e49df2f401/bsod-on-first-boot-after-deployment-no-minidump?forum=w7itproinstall http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/bf5d402d-edd0-4556-ab69-7f831b98ae3c/server-2008-r2-wds-intel-series-8-usb-issue?forum=winserversetup

Regarding the thread size, it may be a good idea to put the common questions/answers in the first post of the thread.

Fortunately, I don't think I have any OSes installed in my lightbulbs.

Well what is the BSOD? If you want you can use DISM to get the injected drivers, redirect the output to a text file and then share the text somewhere so we can see it. Don't just paste the text contents in your post.

We are also looking at consumer products being vulnerable to this including routers and potentially consoles like Playstation or Ouya.

Hmmmm well I know of no lolcat coins or lolcat race cars... Yet we have those for loldogs now: http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/blogs/Off-Track/doge-reddit-josh-wise-talladega-superspeedway-aarons-499.html

I don't know the answer exactly (maybe someone else has some ideas) but it may be possible to accomplish this by using a custom shell. Windows default shell is explorer.exe and this value can be changed in the registry to something else. Using a different shell would require someone to write the program that would: 1. Launch browser and go to that URL 2. After submitting form, close browser 3. Launch explorer.exe. I think the difficult task would be to force the user to fill out the form or else they can't access Windows. I am not really a fan of this entire idea... Why not put that URL in a .lnk and put it in the Startup folder? Then the student will see it on logon and have to fill it out. Is the reason why you are going to this length of prohibiting the use of the PC because students are not otherwise filling out this survey? I know that students can be difficult, however it may be better to just have them fill out that form as part of that day's agenda.

I never actually run commands directly from that location, instead I will call a .cmd there. Its hard to tell from your XML format what it could be. Other than Setup tells you that something is wrong. Have you run this XML through validation in WSIM? It could be that your password objects are empty. Do not use empty objects, remove them instead.

You should be fine with any Pentium 2 or 3 PC. I know AMD or Cyrix may be an option but I've never used either of those. I would pick out which video card you want to use, then determine which board you want. Reason being is that if you want to use certain AGP cards, the keying is different. So you wouldn't want to buy an AGP card just to find out it won't fit in the AGP slot in the board/PC you bought. Also consider that if you pick up a used PC that the case it is in may not fit what you want to put in it. This is fine if the board you get is an ATX board as you can get another case fairly easily. I don't know what the market is like for you in Sweden for used PCs.

Is it Driver Magician? http://www.drivermagician.com/screenshot.htm

Use the full post editor to fix your topic title.

Well I don't know what kind of shady MS forums the article's author goes to.

It was always Burger King's tagline, but I suspect most fast food chains would not reject a special order. For example, try ordering a mix-up... such as one of the specialty burger but tell them to use the chicken or fish patties instead. I am not certain what that reaction would be or if they would say they could do it. Or you can just make your own special meal by ordering the plain hamburger and then one of the BBQ sauce they usually sell with the nuggets.

There is a new forum section for NTLite topics: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/177-ntlite/