Question about, "Windows has finished installing new devices."

[Guest]

I have a question about the following message

Windows has finished installing new devices. The sofware that supports your
device requires that you restart your computer. You must restart before the
new settings will take affect.

Is there somewhere I can go and see what windows thinks it needed to
install? A log or something? I've looked in the event viewer and can find
nothing.

What I am doing is as follows. I have set up a 4th test machine for one of
our installers. It has 2 hard drives. One drive is full of 100's of ghost
images of all of the Windows operating systems. So for isntance when we test
our applications he can then pick an OS he wants to test it under and reload
that image. So he might want to go from XP to 2000 to Vista and then back to
XP say with or without framework. He needs to be able to test all the
situations we think that a client might encounter on install. I have this
working fine on 3 dells now with no issues. I just receieved a new Dell
Optiplex 745 to set up for the install person. So I have it set up just like
the other 3 that work fine. The problem I have on this one is that after I
drop the ghost image from the image drive to the main drive I always get that
message above about finished isntalling new devices. I can't figure out what
it thinks it needed to install and why this doesn't happen on my other 3
dells. The other dells are older ranging from a PII so that we can test on a
slow machine to a PIII and now this new DELL dual core. Is there somewhere I
can look and see why its giving me this message the first time it boots after
the image?

Thanks
Phil

 

[Adam Leinss]

I have a question about the following message

Windows has finished installing new devices. The sofware that
supports your device requires that you restart your computer. You
must restart before the new settings will take affect.

Is it doing this on every boot or just one time after you drop the
image? If the later, that is normal behavior.

Adam

 

[Guest]

It only does this after I drop the image on. See I don't think that is
normal behavior. I have 3 other pc's that do not do that when I drop on the
image.

 

[Adam Leinss]

It only does this after I drop the image on. See I don't think
that is normal behavior. I have 3 other pc's that do not do that
when I drop on the image.

I would say the first behavior of it not doing it is abnormal. I
always get "Windows has finished installing new devices" when I drop a
new image onto a box.

Adam