[WinPartners] Clean installs of Win7 SP1 32-bit hanging

[Brian McAllister]

I'm been trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 SP1 x86 (32-bit).  I've
done this many times in the past with the same install disk on identical
hardware.

The initial install works.  I join the system to our domain and load the
MITWaus registry keys.  Then I let it install updates.  At some point after
the initial batch of updates are installed, but before the rest are, the
system hangs completely.  Screen frozen, cursor doesn't move, Ctrl-Alt-Del
does nothing.  After a power cycle, the system will boot but will hang
again in 5-10 minutes.

I've tried this with 3 machines and it always hangs.  I think this is the
first time I've tried to do this since Microsoft changed to the "roll-up"
updates.

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Brian McAllister                                   Senior Software Engineer
mcallister at mit.edu                                                Bates Lab
(617) 253-9537                                                Middleton, MA