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[Guest]

We just received a Dell 755 optiplex and it has a new SATA Controller ( I
assume)...bios shows AHCI Our existing sysprepped uniprocessor image would
not boot (it loops). We have the buildmasstorage line in sysprep set to yes,
and this image has worked for lots of dell laptop and desktops models just
fine. I tried adding the drivers to the sysprep folder but it doesn't make
it that far to read it. As a result, I decided to create a new image on the
755 (multiprocessor) and use it as the base image. It seems to run the
minisetup on a multiprocessor (Core2) machine pretty quickly and reboots. On
an uniprocessor machine (i.e dell latitude d610 or d410) it finishes the line
that says removing temporary files and then goes to a black screen with the
white arrow in the middle of the screen. If you let it sit for about 30
minutes, it will reboot itself. It successfully goes into windows at that
point. If I reboot when I see the white arrow (don't wait), it also boots
successfully into windows. I compared our existing image file setupapi.log
loaded on a d610 and the new image loaded on the same machine and don't see
any type of failure. Does anybody know what is going on here and a fix?
I've read where some say change the hal to acpi but indicated that
effectively cripples the multiprocessor, and I'm concerned about how power
managemant would function (or not function). I have loaded the video driver
fixes (for unsigned drivers), so that is not it.

Thanks

 

[rvandnbg]

We just received a Dell755optiplex and it has a new SATA Controller ( I
assume)...bios shows AHCI Our existing sysprepped uniprocessor image would
not boot (it loops). We have the buildmasstorage line in sysprep set to yes,
and this image has worked for lots of dell laptop and desktops models just
fine. I tried adding the drivers to the sysprep folder but it doesn't make
it that far to read it. As a result, I decided to create a new image on the755(multiprocessor) and use it as the base image. It seems to run the
minisetup on a multiprocessor (Core2) machine pretty quickly and reboots. On
an uniprocessor machine (i.e dell latitude d610 or d410) it finishes the line
that says removing temporary files and then goes to a black screen with the
white arrow in the middle of the screen. If you let it sit for about 30
minutes, it will reboot itself. It successfully goes into windows at that
point. If I reboot when I see the white arrow (don't wait), it also boots
successfully into windows. I compared our existing image file setupapi.log
loaded on a d610 and the new image loaded on the same machine and don't see
any type of failure. Does anybody know what is going on here and a fix?
I've read where some say change the hal to acpi but indicated that
effectively cripples the multiprocessor, and I'm concerned about how power
managemant would function (or not function). I have loaded the video driver
fixes (for unsigned drivers), so that is not it.

Thanks

I had the same problem. Go into setup and set the SATA operation to
ATA instead of AHCI. The unit will then come up on my old syspreped
master image and allow me to install the new drivers into the old
image.

 

[Guest]

What specifically did you do to the old image? In our case the hard drive on
our old master image is non-sata. In other words, define "install the new
drivers into the old image."

Thanks

 

[Okells]

The Dell 755 Optiplex sysprep reboot loop problem . "The TURNING it to ATA in
BIOS worked for me also thanks for this post you saved me loads of time and
headache,

Much appreciated

 

[Guardian]

I am having the same Issue using the Intel ICH9 SATA AHCIController.
When building my Single Mass image I am using the Microsoft Virtual
Machine 2007. When you referred to the "Go into setup and set the SATA
operation to
ATA instead of AHCI." Where is the setup operation that you are
referring to? In the past all of our devices had standard IDE hard
drives so this is a new problem for us. Any help on this would be
great.

Thanks,

Guardian