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By setting it to combo on the 9100, please note that you will be giving up 2 of your sata slots.... You will only be able to use SATA 0 and SATA 2 SATA 1 and SATA 3 will be disabled and cannot be enabled. If you change your Dimension 9100 Bios setting back to AHCI, your windows will not boot up. It will give your BSOD. Just an FYI.

Thanks for the replies. First of all....I would just like to inform you that we've finally figured out a way to do this. Not very efficient but works for wot we're trying to do. The reason we wanted to autologon is just because we're lazy. We've got a few applications to auto install with the slipstream CD. And we would prefer to just not getup from our lazy asses until the unattended is completely done. Just lazy. Anyway, all we did was to change out the password of the administrator account after joining to the domain and the password does not show up on the registry anymore. Not really sure how that works....but wished I have a better understanding of it. Anyway....too many other issues we have to take care of and since we have a quick solution for it right now, we'll use it. Thanks again.

Hi.... Was wondering if there was a way to encrypt the admin password after an install? Here's my situation: 1). Created Slipstream CD with unattend on. 2). Did not encrypt password to enable autologon. ** Note: I know that in order to autologon, you cannot use the encrypted password option in Winnt.sif based on this webpage: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...12394#appliesto 3). Password is showing up on registry unencrypted. Is there anyway for me to encrypt the password after the install? Once the computer is joined to the work domain, it'll be set to NOT autologon by the server. All I need to do is to encrypt the password so that not every person will know what the admin password is. Any help would be great. Thanks. Melvyn

For those of you who have been searching a way to slipstream a Dimension 9100 with the BTX form factor mobo (like I have for the past few weeks), here's the solution to the problem - Tested on 2 computers so far and both worked: 1). Using a regular slipstream method as have been discussed in other forums 2). Download the latest Intel Drivers from the site below: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df...ystems〈=eng (I used the floppy method - if anybody knows how to extract the files from the exe file, do tell) and set it in the CD like you normally do for the slipstream 3). Go to the Dim 9100 Bios and set the SATA setting to combo and restart the computer 4). Slipstream CD should be able to see the harddrives automatically then and it should work without a problem. Hope that helps.