Alrighty, I have a sysprep image which works on many many many different models of PCs. from a p3 650Mhz machine to a brand spanking new dell amd 64 bit system. It will install and run on 9 different models so far. the problem is with some IBM lenovo computers. When i lay the image down on one of these Lenovo's (they happen to be IBM M52's) the image is put on properly, and upon restart I get the windows "splash screen" that is shown just before mini-setup starts, and then the computer reboots before going into mini-setup. and it will just keep looping like that.

I'm kind of baffled, because this image has worked very well on so many different machines.

any help is greatly appreciated.

Taylor

What HAL is in your base image? Does the M52 have the TPM security chip? Which prcessor is in your M52? SATA or PATA drive?

Base HAL is ACPI

I have no clue if it has the TPM security chip, how would i find that out?

processor is a core 2 duo

The drive is SATA.

Thanks again for any help you can give,

T

bump... still have this issue (i forgot about it, because i just stashed the computer in a closet... but now ppl are asking about it again *lol*)

anyone? bueler bueler?

My unified works fine on the M52, but not the M52e. Only PC to date I couldn't get it to load on (works on about 40 other models).

The TPM is not the issue at all.

I don't have a M52 hooked up to look, is that a ICH7 device? I know on a couple of models of IBM (Lenovo) I had to go get an updated Intel Chipset (just ICH7 and IMSM) to get it working.

Turn boot logging on and see if it creates a log file. If it does, problem isn't storage, it is something else. If it doesn't get created ... re -bmsd your master image with updated chipset inf data for that specific model, see if that resolves it.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791349.aspx

Turn that on too, so that flushes happen right away, I had an issue once where I was chasing the wrong thing because of when the flush happened (on a certain machine using the unified, I have to pull out usbport.inf, let it go through setup, then put it back in and devcon install the usb ports)

wow... our lenovo rep is a spaz... and i'm not much better. I hate the **** machines. turns out it wasn't a m52 at all, but an m55e, they shipped us the wrong machine and because these lenovo's have such screwy model naming conventions i had no clue it wasn't an m52. oh well, we had an older image for the m55e, so i just used that and washed my hands of it (we only have _1_ m52 in our district... i'm not wasting my time on this anymore specially because we switched vendors to dell).

thanks for your help