We had been successfully using Microsoft's Remote Installation Service
to deploy APIC compliant system images in our organization. We
recently purchased some nForce chipset based systems and had to
install third party Network Drivers to our "root" Windows XP install.
We then redeployed using this "root" install, configured our custom
apps and re-imaged. However, when we tried to deploy this new image,
the text based portion of Windows Setup went extremely slow and then
during the "Installing Network" portion, the system would fail to join
a Domain. After MUCH troubleshooting, we gave up on ever making a RIS
image of an nForce system deploy successfully. This was especially
frustrating because installing the "root" Windows XP using RIS works
extremly well on nForce systems (as long as you have installed the
Network Drivers using OEMPreinstall per MS).

We then decided to try Ghost Corp Edition 7.5 using PXE boot and RIS
to start the process (i.e. system PXE boots and sees "Ghost Server" as
one of the options in RIS). We had to use Sysprep mini-setup and tell
it to do a complete Plug and Play search in order to get it to install
the "non-signed" nForce Drivers (we were unable to find signed
drivers). Regardless, nothing we did gave any better results than we
experienced using just RIS. In the few instances where we did actually
get a working machine that was imaged using Ghost, the network
performance seemed like we were using old Lantastic adapters (if you
don't remember them just imagine 1Mbps instead of 100Mbps). Everything
"appeared" right, the drivers looked like the ones we were using in
working systems, the connection said it was a 100Mbps connection, it
just performed horribly.

We have tried everything that we can think of at this point but can
not successfully get a Ghost Image of an nForce based system using
Sysprep and RIS to work properly.

For reference, the motherboard is a BIOStar M7NCG nForce2 based board,
however, I would assume this would be the same on any nForce2 based
board.