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We are having a similar problem in our environment following upgrading to SP1. Were you ever able to get this resolved?

I would wait until RTM if I were you. We're not having any problems with the RC, but it did take me a week to get the environment back up and running after installing RC sp2. Ofcourse you may have an advantage in that you will actually know that RC sp2 is installed.

Thanks, that post helped a little. For anyone else who had problems after upgrading to sp2 RC: You have to uninstall waik 1.1, install (or reinstall sp2 RC) and then install WAIK for Windows 7. I also had to reinstall IIS and everything that was depending on it, I used these instructions to do so: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2009/08/12/configmgr-2007-how-to-properly-reinstall-iis-in-windows-server-2008-on-an-sccm-2007-site-system.aspx worked great. As far as the optiplex 960 error, I determined that it was actually a problem with my test computer, not my environment. It's always the easiest solutions that you overlook.

Sorry I haven't been on top of this, a rogue system admin thought it would be a nice surprise to update our SCCM to the sp2 release candidate and now I can't get anything to work, so the optiplex 960 problem is now the least of my worries. Thanks for the responses and thanks to any web for creating this great site.

I have, and I assume they are loading properly because my task sequence begins (eventually). I found some forums suggesting that there are issues with this driver and winpe, but those people couldn't get winpe to load the driver at all, so I don't think that this is my issue.

I am currently building our sccm 2007 r2 environment from scratch and have run into a problem where Dell Optiplex 960 machines are taking a very long time to boot to WINPE through PXE. I've successfully deployed images to several other models of computers (motion c5, lenovo m57p, dell optiplex 745) without trouble. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to troubleshoot this? I've tried fiddling with the SATA settings, but this doesn't help. server environment: sccm 2007 r2 running on Server 2008(x64)sp1