Re: RIS with nForce2 motherboards and XP

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From: NIC Student (nospam_at_nospam.land)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:09:57 -0800

Crap, Erick. Did you post to enough groups??? ;)

I've never used nForce2 drivers, but I thought I'd ask if you have tried the
Win2000 drivers that you used successfully with RIS instead of the XP ones
as a test (with the $oem$ folder)?

Have you downloaded the latest drivers from nvidia? Tried both 2000 and XP
drivers?

When you copy the drivers into the i386 folder and are asked about
owerwriting, that means you might need to locate the driverfilename.pnf file
and delete it. In fact, you can delete all PNF files in the i386 directory
and when you restart the Remote Install Service, they will be rebuilt. I've
done this many times, the first time you RIS a client, there will be a
little longer delay than normal.

What is the exact error message you receive? 

-- 
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE
"Erick Thompson"
>I have a large number of users with systems that have the nForce2 
>motherboards. I am trying to install Windows XP from a Windows 2003 RIS 
>server. I was able to get Windows 2000 to install from RIS using $oem$ 
>information from Q315279, but that process doesn't seem to work with XP 
>and/or the XP versions of the drivers that I downloaded from nVidia. Has 
>anyone been able to use RIS to install XP on nForce2 motherboards? Are 
>there special problems with XP and nForce boards?
>
> Thanks,
> Erick
>

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