OK, luckily you still have that working system image :).
I've gone through your logs and I have two possible scenarios to suggest to you.
First the installation logs (C:\Windows\Panther):
Windows recognizes all your hardware, setup is flawless, error log is totally empty.
Then the "bad child", Sysprep logs:
The culprit is
Intel / OpenCL drivers, the GPU driver to be specific.
Sysprep /generalize cannot release this driver, which automatically means Sysprep fails as it is unable to completely remove hardware information. OpenCL for instance takes care of the
igfxtray.exe application which runs in sys tray although you cannot find it in installed programs. To ascertain this, Intel seems to have "tied" OpenCL somehow to that OEM UEFI pre-installation of yours, in a way that locks the drivers so Sysprep cannot remove them.
My suggestions below.
Alternative 1, using your existing image which already contains software needed:
- Restore your normal working image on reference computer
- Reboot to Audit Mode, command to do it is %windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /audit /reboot
- When in Audit Mode, click Cancel to close the Sysprep dialog which is automatically shown in desktop
- Turn Windows Automatic Updates off
- Turn Windows Defender and Firewall off
- Uninstall (Programs & Features) all Intel and / or OpenCL items
- Uninstall (Device Manager) both video and audio drivers
- Now continue from Method Two as told in this tutorial to capture the image: Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer
- - OR - -
Alternative 2, start from scratch:
- Install Windows 8.1 on your reference computer, enter Audit Mode after installation has done the last reboot (this tutorial you are reading now, Part 2, steps 2.1 and 2.2)
- When in Audit Mode, click Cancel to close the Sysprep dialog which is automatically shown in desktop
- Turn Windows Automatic Updates off
- Turn Windows Defender and Firewall off
- Uninstall (Programs & Features) all Intel and / or OpenCL items
- Install all software you need to include in your image
- Uninstall (Device Manager) both video and audio drivers
- Now continue from Method Two as told in this tutorial to capture the image: Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer
Alternative 2 is my recommendation.
Kari