I'm integrated a new laptop model into my Windows 7 x64 task sequence. I've deployed the OS once and it went pretty smoothly.
I'm deploying to the same laptop and now it's stuck at "Setup is installing devices". In the last hour it's gone from 55% to 74%. I've been running into this issue quite a bit lately. I've only seen one post so far that was this exact issue. That person had a hardware problem. I've had this issue on several different computers/models, so I doubt that's it.
I've seen other posts where people report problems with driver installation taking too long, but I get the impression that they're having a problem during the Apply Driver Package or Auto Apply Drivers stage. For these people it seems to be the network and/or the size of the driver package. When the system has booted into Windows and is installing the drivers, that doesn't rely on the network does it? Aren't the drivers already downloaded and being processed locally?