I have had great success so far with OSP 1.10.0.3, but have had 2 Gateway laptops (coincedence or crap?? ) not like my image. One is a Solo 9500, and after my image failed I did a manual installation (ugh, 900MHz w/ 256MB on a 4200RPM HDD...) and poked around, nothing unusual and the HAL was set to ACPI in Device Manager, same as my source image. I do not yet have the second laptop in WIndows so can't give much more info than it is an MX3228.
The Solo 9500 did not make it through the first boot (HAL), the hard drive light flickered very briefly and then it sat there. I dumped my image on fresh and increased the RAM to 512MB, same exact result.
The MX3228 did make it through the HAL boot and restarted normally, and even got so far as the Setup, asking me to click Next for the first time, and the system locked up. I tried mouse and keyboard to move past that screen, and plugged in a USB mouse for kicks, still frozen.
Both laptops were functional before my image, and both laptops had full RAM and hard drive scans run prior to me reporting this.
What other information could I give you that may be helpful? I know the Solo 9500 is ancient, but other images have worked (not OSP though). The MX3228 is new enough that it should have worked fine, and I don't suspect hardware issues with it.
Thanks
Ian