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I'm not 100% on how PCI-E works, and I've certainly confused myself trying to figure it out before... so this might not be relevant. First thing I'm noticing that you are using a PCI-E 2.1 card. Your board has 2 PCI-E v2.0 x16 slots and a PCI-E v1.1 x4 slot. Also another thing I can't figure out (but still may be power related) is why this X48 board has DDR2 memory in it. The X48 Express Chipset Datasheet makes NO mention of DDR2 in it anywhere.

I'd keep that install image in a share, like you are now. Then create a custom boot image that uses the install image in the share. Add that new boot image to WDS. All WDS is like a giant roadmap.

There are a couple of reasons, one if the ownership like -X- suggests. Another annoying thing is that the protected file locations (windows\system32, program files, etc) even on other volumes will become protected.

Most wireless routers have an internal firewall enabled that keeps wired and wireless traffic separate. Post your network layout and the make and models of your network hardware. Likely we won't need to know about the clients.

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I've found the 3Ware (now LSI) are the easiest to work with and the most reliable, mostly because it has a CPU and RAM on card. Some other controllers I've used (Intel, Adaptec, Promise) pale in comparison. Yeah the 3Ware is more expensive but that price means something in this case. Either way, make sure you install the management software and make sure to label your drives/cables/ports. You'll have to swap at some point, so make sure you make it foolproof. As far as models, I've (am) used 9550, 9650 in 4, 8 and 12 ports. Sorry to list Promise as an example. bleh. B)

Also it is possible that one of the installers is locking the process and the other ones work install. I've found strange instances of this, such as this example: TPM then BT = TPM installs but not BT BT then TPM = both install So you may want to try playing with the order of installation.

Not to disrupt the topic here (its great) I used to know a bit about the SuperDisk but I have largely forgotten about that info. I ran into problems with it when I worked for Iomega. There was some sort of goofiness when in a system that also contained the internal Zip 100 drive. Something about having extra/phantom drive letters or it things where it would change letters on you. So when you get done with your current agenda, throw a Zip drive in there and expand a bit.

Also, if your server is 2008, and your clients are not Vista/7 then you can also disable the extra SMB messages that 2008 uses designed to communicate with modern OS. Best I've ever been able to get is a 45% upload to the server.

I had considered, at one point, to have two DVD drives and set each to different regions. I don't watch movies on my PC anymore so that never really happened. Here is what I found out while researching it back then. - You can change the region on a drive up to 5 times. The 5th change will lock it at that region. - You can "start over" and get your 5 changes back by flashing the drive firmware. And of course the other option was to use two drives.

If you are lucky, its just the BCD that is screwed up. There are various "fixes" on HP's website to return both the BCD and MBR to the correct states but you are going to have a problem because you don't have Vista on there anymore. The Windows 7 and Vista recovery process is different enough for this. And since you changed the OS, HP might not help you for free. We have a large topic about this already: Also, marking the recovery partition as Active isn't what you want to do. The boot process of going into the recovery partition searches for it, and makes it active at the time of boot, and sets the OS partition as inactive. If you have the recovery partition already active (even if it could find it) it would give you an error.

You can't use Vista's setup.exe to install an XP wim, but you can have a WinPE boot and write an app that gives two options: 1. Install Vista using Setup 2. Install XP using Imagex

There might be some licensing issues if you put a WinPE boot image on each PC, however you could have a USB key that boots a WinPE and makes the changes you need.

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There are many ways to do this, but they usually have a lot of work involved. The domain set up that Allen says will work, but there are other options. XP Embedded (maybe even 7 embedded) has a feature similar to DeepFreeze called Ram Overlay. It is a function of the OS and not a separate program. Another thing possible to consider is setting the PCs up as Thin Clients, or using something like Microsoft VDI.

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What operating system are we talking about here? Are you using MDT?

That topic isn't locked, why not just ask your question there?

You should be able to do this with PowerShell, but you'll obviously need to have that installed on all the clients. I found a script that looks like it will do pendinging updates from WSUS and then you can reboot/shutdown. I have no experience with PowerShell but if you want to go down this path this topic can be moved to the scripting forum. Here is that link: http://poshcode.org/1932

I merged your posts. No reason to delete as it may help someone if they search for something similar.

Hmm that would be tough because I bet most of the games you can get from Steam wouldn't work on 9x, unless you just want to use the community part. I've got little experience with Steam myself.

I'll be getting more heavier stuff to listen to at work. I already did a transfer as I am (still) slowly building my HTPC but doing all the sorting during downtimes at work. I'm more than half done, but still going to get more "normal" types of things for quite a bit. Bob Seger - Katmandu