OSD Failure - Windows 7 - Blue Screen on First Boot in Full OS

Hi,
We are experiencing a really strange problem with our OSD which is hard to pin down. Our setup is SCCM 2012 R2 with 4 PXE enabled DP's (VMWare VMs) across 2 data centers and on seperate hosts and we are delivering Windows 7 (32 and 64) with recaptured WIM
files. Ouor deployments work fine for around a week and then they suddenly start experiencing a reboot look and blue screening at the first boot into the full OS.
This occurs on multiple different physical machines and we inject driver packages for different builds with WMI filters on motherboard as is common. The really weird part is that this will work for days then stop working. The only workaround we have is to
recapture the WIM file (we have a build and capture task sequence for this) and then it works again, even though the content and drivers are exactly the same from the same B+C task sequence. Even the windows updates are the same with no new ones. It doesn't
seem to be the drivers themselves but rather the process of DISM injecting them offline in windows PE which appears to break the registry. The last thing we see before blue screen is "Updating registry" in windows 7 boot.
These are the things we have tried are...
 - Recapturing the WIM (works for around a week but not a fixed period)
 - Host the WIM on a physical DP (to rule out VMWare) with only the WIM and a single driver package. Again this worked fine for a week or so.
 - Built several different physical machines. All fine but when this stops, it stops for all of them
 - If we remove all drivers but the LAN driver it can work but our testing has ruled out a specific bad driver as we have used different models of machine and if it was, then it would never work.
 - We have set the TFTP block size to default of 1024 (we had it higher as 8192) to rule out the boot image being corrupted on download. It made no difference other than being a lot slower.
 - Compared MD5 hashes for the WIM to rule out corruption.
 - Removed and redistributed the WIM and drivers to different DP's (that it had never been on before)
The DISM.log on a failed device shows entries like
CBS Failed to unload offline registry: {bf1a281b-ad7b-4476-ac95-f47682990ce7}C:/Windows/System32/config/SOFTWARE, the client may still need it open. [HRESULT = 0x80070005 - E_ACCESSDENIED]
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This question on
Dell's forum sounds very similar.
What we are really struggling with is why would the same WIM, with the same driver package, from the same distribution point, to the same physical machine, work every day for a week the permanently break? Aaargh!
Thanks everyone,
Shaun

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    Aug 29 23:56:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 DirectoryService[11]: dnssd_clientstub read_all(20) failed 0/28 0
    Aug 29 23:56:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 DirectoryService[11]: dnssd_clientstub DNSServiceRefDeallocate called with invalid DNSServiceRef 0x10061cc00 FFFFFFFF DDDDDDDD
    Aug 29 23:56:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 WindowServer[75]: bootstraplookip failed: Unknown service name
    Aug 29 23:56:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 DirectoryService[11]: dnssd_clientstub read_all(19) failed 0/4 0
    Aug 29 23:56:03 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 sudo[269]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr/HWNetCfg
    Aug 29 23:56:19 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: * launchd[1] has started up. *
    Aug 29 23:56:26 localhost mDNSResponder[18]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-212.1 (Jul 24 2009 22:34:12) starting
    Aug 29 23:56:27 localhost pcscd[27]: Non-smartcard device launched pcscd [Vendor: 0X3F0, Product: 0X5711]
    Aug 29 23:56:28: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
    Aug 29 23:56:28 localhost configd[15]: network configuration changed.
    Aug 29 23:56:28 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 configd[15]: setting hostname to "eric-lawrences-MBP-2.local"
    Aug 29 23:56:30 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 configd[15]: network configuration changed.
    Aug 29 23:56:43: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
    Aug 29 23:56:43 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[55]: Login Window Application Started
    Aug 29 23:56:44 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 bootlog[65]: BOOT_TIME: 1251554179 0
    Aug 29 23:56:44 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 blued[66]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started
    Aug 29 23:56:44 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 fseventsd[59]: checkvol_last_modtime:XXX failed to get mount time (25; &mount_time == 0x1000b5358)
    Aug 29 23:56:44 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 fseventsd[59]: log dir: /Volumes/ERICGLPC/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 640F51B0-A701-4DF7-84CD-9DE7DA23AD26
    Aug 29 23:56:44 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 sudo[84]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr/HWNetCfg
    Aug 29 23:56:45 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.usbmuxd[49]: usbmuxd-167.1 built for iTunesEightTwo on Jul 9 2009 at 14:02:00, running 32 bit
    Aug 29 23:56:48 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 mDNSResponder[18]: SIGHUP: Purge cache
    Aug 29 23:56:51 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[55]: Login Window Started Security Agent
    Aug 29 23:56:52 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 configd[15]: network configuration changed.
    Aug 29 23:57:07 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 ntpd[43]: time reset +0.640880 s
    Aug 29 23:58:46 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[55]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
    Aug 29 23:58:46 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 loginwindow[55]: USER_PROCESS: 55 console
    Aug 29 23:58:46 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[120] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
    Aug 29 23:58:57 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[120] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[138]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Aug 29 23:59:00 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd[131]: ATSFindFolder timeout. (domain:-32764, dirType:'font', createFolder:false, ATSServer pid:131)
    Aug 29 23:59:01 eric-lawrences-MBP-2 ServerScanner[135]: Not scanning because node /Active Directory/All Domains is in searchPath
    Look forward to hearing from anyone.
    Many thanks
    Eric

    JoePrairies wrote:
    if anyone could perhaps shed some light on why this might have occurred?
    Your Mac may have if you didn't erase the log files
    Without that, it could have been anything.
    -mj

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