Cannot install WHS on nforce 1 based motherboard

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  I am trying to install the WHS media I received in the mail from MS on the following hardware:
  
  Athlon XP 1600+
  MSI K7N420 Pro motherboard (NVIDIA nForce 1-based)
  Maxtor 200GB IDE drive (brand new/unformatted, BIOS flashed to support >137GB)
  Kingston 512MB PC2100
  Tried with both onboard VGA/8MB shared frame buffer and MSI FX 5200/no shared frame buffer
  
  Whenever I install, I get the "green" screen for about half an hour while the HDD light flickers on and off at a constant rate, until I see the message box "Windows Home Server Setup Error - Could not initialize UI subsystem".  It seems that most users who see this message are trying to install WHS on a VM, but I am trying to install it on bare hardware.
  
  I read in the bug reporting database that this is likely due to HDD controller issue, so I put nforce1 drivers for XP on a USB drive (these drivers supposedly work with Windows Server 2003 as well).  My directory structure is as follows:
  
  Flash usb root dir\DRIVERS\[various Win2K and WinXP driver folders]
  
  I know that WHS can see the usb drive, since it creates the following (empty) file:
  Flash usb root dir\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Home Server\logs\q_setup.log
  
  Any idea on what I can do here?  Am I dead in the water?  Should I file a bug report?
  
  

  Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:50 PM