"You May Now Shutdown Your Computer" Screen

[Alan Coleman]

I have a problem when I ghost computers. Everything loads perfectly, but
the computers always shut down to the "You May Now Shutdown Your Computer"
screen instead of just shutting off.... it seems to only happen as a result
of imaging a machine with our Windows 2000 image.

Is there any settings or anything I can do to change this so that they shut
down completely (either settings I can change after imaging machines or
changes to the image itself).

 

[Neko-]

This is a result of the different hardware the PC runs on
(specifically the motherboard resources).

It can be solved by changing the computer driver in the device manager
(the one all the way at the top) to the correct one for the PC.

MIND YOU! Microsoft doesnt recommend doing this (and from expirience I
agree with them depending on where you're coming from as a base
config). This MAY render Windows unable to start. The only solution
then would be to completely reinstall Windows over the existing OS to
replace the incorrect HAL driver with the correct one.

Once the driver is replaced Windows will most likely go about it's
merry way and discover all kinds of new hardware (that it discovered
earlier already with the old HAL driver). After that it should work
the way it's supposed to.

Neko-