Sysprep Question - Single Core and Dual Core Machines

[Guest]

Hello:
I am a PC Analyst for a large company and have been tasked with creating
an image for our privately managed LANs.

My company uses Dell, Lenovo (IBM), and HP desktops and Laptops. I have
integrated the drivers into the Windows install and am now trying to build a
ghost image using sysprep.

Here's my dilema:
We have single-core and dual core machines that are used by our users in
the private LANs. Is there a way to build an image that would install on
both types of machines and detect the Dual-Core CPUs in the laptops and/or
desktops.

I've been able to build an image using an IBM T40(single-core CPU) as the
model PC, but when I run the ghost image on a Dell D620 laptop (intel core2
duo) Task manager only shows one CPU in the Performance Tab and there should
show two. Also, the performance of the machine seems to be drastically
different from what it should be.

Is there a way using Sysprep to force a Windows XP SP2 image to autodetect
the HAL?

Thanks,

John P Forth
PC/LAN Analyst

 

[Mario Schmidt]

Hello:
I am a PC Analyst for a large company and have been tasked with creating
an image for our privately managed LANs.

My company uses Dell, Lenovo (IBM), and HP desktops and Laptops. I have
integrated the drivers into the Windows install and am now trying to build a
ghost image using sysprep.

Here's my dilema:
We have single-core and dual core machines that are used by our users in
the private LANs. Is there a way to build an image that would install on
both types of machines and detect the Dual-Core CPUs in the laptops and/or
desktops.

http://www.myitforum.com/articles/15/view.asp?id=8997

 

[Adam Leinss]

Is there a way using Sysprep to force a Windows XP SP2 image to
autodetect the HAL?

In addition to the other link posted, check out:
http://jimtsay.googlepages.com/mysysprep out.

What I do is force a Uniprocessor HAL in the image and used a "hacked"
HAL.INF. If it's a dual core, the technician goes and picks the
multiprocessor HAL for the "Computer" device in the device manager. If
Uniprocessor, do nothing.

Since there's an Intel sticker on the outside it's pretty easy to do.

With Vista, it's pure bliss: no HAL hacking!

Adam

 

[Guest]

Thanks Both Mario and Adam.

I've already looked at both of these links. The link that Mario sent is
great, but I couldn't get the script to do anything.

Is there something special that needs to be done in order to get the script
to actually do something?

 

[Adam Leinss]

I've already looked at both of these links. The link that Mario
sent is great, but I couldn't get the script to do anything.

Is there something special that needs to be done in order to get
the script to actually do something?

The script from the first link has to run within Windows PE, so you
need to be using SMS OSD or BDD 2007 as your deployment lauchpad to use
the script.

If you are using DriveImage/Ghost, you need to use the "legacy"
sysprep.exe approach from the 2nd link.

Adam