'new hardware wizard' popup during mini-setup?

[Barkley Bees]

I created a Windows XP SP2 image for a Dell Latitude E4200, E4300 and E6400
using Sysprep. Afterwards, the installatopm completes successfully and all
drivers get properly detected but I notice one strange thing with the E6400:
when installing and the mini-setup wizard is running, the "new hardware
wizard" window pops up twice and so does a dos box which I can see is for
the audio drivers. They only appear for a few seconds and then disappear
after which the install proceeds and appears to complete successfully. This
only happens on the E6400 hardware which was my reference system when
building the image (the only driver I installed during the image build was
the nic).

note: I performed a "sysprep -reseal -mini -quiet".

Has anyone experienced this or similar? If so, did you find any way to
suppress these popups? I would like to hide these from the end users as they
would be confused/alarmed by the pop ups. Appreciate any feedback.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I created a Windows XP SP2 image for a Dell Latitude E4200, E4300 and
E6400 using Sysprep. Afterwards, the installatopm completes
successfully and all drivers get properly detected but I notice one
strange thing with the E6400: when installing and the mini-setup
wizard is running, the "new hardware wizard" window pops up twice and
so does a dos box which I can see is for the audio drivers. They only
appear for a few seconds and then disappear after which the install
proceeds and appears to complete successfully. This only happens on
the E6400 hardware which was my reference system when building the
image (the only driver I installed during the image build was the
nic).

note: I performed a "sysprep -reseal -mini -quiet".

Has anyone experienced this or similar? If so, did you find any way
to suppress these popups? I would like to hide these from the end
users as they would be confused/alarmed by the pop ups. Appreciate
any feedback.

I don't think I've ever seen what you are describing, but we only use
Dell Optiplex systems so it could be unique to just that platform.
Strange that it happens when you deploy to the same platform as your
reference system - I would have expected the reverse would be more
likely to cause something like that.

Sorry I can't help.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.