Jsak, Were you able to get your issue resolved? I'm running into the exact same issue (ICH6R) with a novell network install and it can't find the bloody iastor.sys file eventhough it's right in \i386 folder. If after it chokes, I can manually add iastor.sys to $win_nt$.~bt and restart and THEN the driver is found and is fat, dum, and happy. I tried the BTS driver pack and IT bombs too but complains of not finding some other Via driver. I'm trying to slipstream the intel driver (and others if I can get it to work) using txtsetup.sif. Thanks in advance. S_A_R99