SoundMax drivers and sysprep -- better workaround?

[Daiwikr]

I have a Vista desktop at my home that obvious have SoundMax installed. I have read somewhere that if we need to run sysprep, we must uninstall SoundMax drivers first. But yesterday I forgot doing the same on this newly installed Vista computer and I hosed my Vista install and need to start over.

I’ll fix this my own but I want to know if there are any other and better way to fix this problem in future.

[joebo]

I know this thread is fairly old, but I was just running into the same issue on GX620's. Dell has no drivers i could fin on their site, just XP drivers which don't work. If you use windows to search it will find drivers, but they will crash your sysprep. I found the true soundmax drivers for vista which when installed work fine with all dell computers running vista. Also, some people have come accross the sysprep has encountered a fatal error and i have a work around i found.

Run regedit
Local Machine\System\Setup\Status\Sysprep Status
Make sure the value for generlization string is 7 if not change it
From a command prompt do the following:
msdtc -uninstall
msdtc -install

the msdtc gets corrupt and causes this problem. This resolves the issue.

[Alpha Bravo]

Albright, I thought your response was hilarious. Have a cup of decaf guys, it's called humor.

Joebo thanks for the post.