sysprep for several different hardware requirements

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First of thank you for reading my note. I know that sysprep can not install
for all 5 different types of computer hardware. I am looking for the step by
step guide that will at least get me close to be able to install xp on one
computer and then have it RIS image and be able to install it on several
different types of hardware (pc's).

Thank You
 
James@ said:
First of thank you for reading my note. I know that sysprep can not install
for all 5 different types of computer hardware. I am looking for the step by
step guide that will at least get me close to be able to install xp on one
computer and then have it RIS image and be able to install it on several
different types of hardware (pc's).

Thank You
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The model that seems to fit "most" platforms (at least in our
environment) is setting the HAL to "Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface (ACPI) PC"... Fit everything for us so far apart from olllddd
machines like HP Vectra VE8s (although it does work on HP Vectra VEi8
and above), and one particular brand of fairly newish laptop that I
can't remember exactly what it was, but they were crap for many other
reasons too.

Problem being you wont get to take advantage of the full capability for
"multiprocessor"/hyperthreading etc. type systems. We're about to tinker
with a setting in Sysprep.inf called UpdateUPHAL, which looks like we
may be able to create the image on a multiprocessor machine and have it
spit back to uniprocessor HAL if required automatically, we just don't
know how it'll behave on the older hardware. If only we had the damn
time to get around to testing this!!!
 
Setting the PC to ACPI may work, however I have seen instances specifically
in laptops where doing so incorrectly will cause hardware resource conflicts.
I have seen this on IBM T43, R52 and Gateways 4m460 and M640's to name a
few.

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