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| prezbedard 2003-06-01, 3:30 pm |
| When using the Sysprep tool the HAL must be the same on the source and destination computers. What else make up the HAL besides the processor type?
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| Can't answer your question 100%, but the HAL is not processor dependant, rather chipest specific.
Ie you can upgrade from a duron > athlon no probs, but intel > amd = no chanced without reformat.
Not sure how it works going from via > sis > nforce etc, I would imagine that would mess you up as well...
BTW, remember you need to have same hard disk controller chips on all the sysprep'able machines. | |
| prezbedard 2003-06-01, 4:52 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by MrStu
Can't answer your question 100%, but the HAL is not processor dependant, rather chipest specific.
Ie you can upgrade from a duron > athlon no probs, but intel > amd = no chanced without reformat.
Not sure how it works going from via > sis > nforce etc, I would imagine that would mess you up as well...
BTW, remember you need to have same hard disk controller chips on all the sysprep'able machines.
I was reading Sybex about SysPrep and all it said about HAL being the same was that the processor must be the same.
So that is what is meant by "processor must be the same" as long it is of the same make i.e. intel to intel , AMD to AMD.
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| enforcer 2003-06-02, 4:15 am |
| HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer
In computers, a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is a layer of programming that allows a computer operating system to interact with a hardware device at a general or abstract level rather than at a detailed hardware level. Windows 2000 is one of several operating systems that include a hardware abstraction layer. The hardware abstraction layer can be called from either the operating system's kernel or from a device driver. In either case, the calling program can interact with the device in a more general way than it would otherwise.
HAL
Basically, anything that is 'required' to enable the PC to boot, should be the same. IE, Processor, Harddrives, etc. once the System can boot and read from the disk, Plug and play detection will usually take over. However the system maynot be as stable as it could be.
NT was far less tolerent of hardware changes. | |
| prezbedard 2003-06-02, 1:02 pm |
| Thanks enforcer.
Got the PM to Webmaster finally. |
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