I am using a Windows RIS 2003 Server to load Windows XP. My network connects fine and I can install Windows XP image on PATA HD's no problem. However I can not install with SATA drives. I have noticed that the HD activity light stays locked on and the RIS installation reports no Hard Drive. Has any one had success with type of installation? The board I am trying to install on is the Asus A8N-E

I'm not an expert, but I would imagin that whatever boot CD you are using requires the SATA drivers. Or maybe you are not using a CD? I think with RIS you can use PXE network boot, in that case there must be some way to setup the SATA driver on the RIS server so that it can recognize the HD.

Like I said I am no expert so I may be speaking out of my butt.

I am booting to BARTPE and doing a network install just using a sharepoint. I do not have controll over DHCP or DNS in our environment so this was the best I could come up with. But my HD's are also SATA and I do not have problems.

Hardware is Dell Optiplex GX620

I am interested in what you findout.

What is unusual about this setup is the following. Intel and SIS Chipsets with SATA drives have no problems booting and loading the OS from the RIS Server. Loading XP from the CD which was used in the RIS setup does not require the F6 key to load on the NVidia NForce board. But the issue as far as I can tell only exists with the NForce 4 (Non-RAID) and SATA with Server 2003 RIS installation.