tantryl

Software list is: WXP SP2 Home Acrobat Reader 6.0 Quicktime 6.4 Real Player Enterprise Edition TweakUI XP WinRAR 3.3 avast! 4 Antivirus Ad-Aware SE Spybot S&D 1.3 Spywareblaster 3.2 If anyone can notice them as obvious problems, please say so. Meanwhile off I go to check if they use the CPU serial.

These are on literally identical boxes, right down to the RAM, Optical drives and HDD. They all use the Biostar iDeq 200N, AXP 2800+, 512MB Kingston ValueRAM PC2700, Lite-on DVD/CDRW Combo, WD800BB, Panasonic FDD. But most importantly, they all use the motherboard that comes standard with the 200N. *EDIT* I'll give the ACPI/Power thing a shot and report back next time I build one of these suckers.

I can find plenty on how things should be done, but nothing on what do do when things go wrong. I was hoping someone else had experienced this problem... You know, because I'm sadistic.

I run a tiny baby sized one/two man PC support and sales place on the west coast of Australia and need a little bit of help with sysprep. Basically sometimes when I reseal a PC with sysprep it does its job and shuts the PC down. When the client starts it up (although I've taken to testing this myself for obvious reasons) it gets just past the black Windows XP loading screen and restarts the computer. This cycles over and over, and it won't boot into Safe Mode citing "Setup has not completed". Any ideas on what might cause this? I really don't know nearly as much about sysprep as I should, as I only make 1-2 computers a fortnight for customers and usually know their names etc. etc. and when sysprep goes south I just do it manually (with an unattended slant, but manually nonetheless).