Booting from Realtek for image install

I am having the most difficult time trying to boot from the Realtek gigabit adapter onto our network so I can install XP64 from an image. I've gone through the Bios and changed the boot orders around but still noting seems to work. Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

I am no expert at this so all I can do is to ask basic stuff. Can you boot the machine from a disk? Have you set the boot order to see the LAN as the first boot device? Have you checked the cable and LED's on the LAN connection?

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Would this be covered under the complimentary 90 day
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Message was edited by: chubbs899

Hi chubbs899, and a warm welcome to the forums & Macdom!
i have read says you can go in through disk utility and partition the drive but i still have yet to see anything that says something about disk utility.
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
How to format your disks...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
Thanks to Pondini, Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks...
http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html
it gives you the option of doing "journal" format or "case sensitive, journal" format.
Don't use Case Sensitive, confuses many Apps.
i suspected jumper settings but when i read through the manual on the WD website it didnt seem to say anything about doing something specifically for apple. it had a jumper for slower transfer rate 1.5Gb/s
Yes, it needs that jumper on pins 5&6.

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This morning my iMac just didn't wanna boot up, it powers on and the start sound plays but nothing more, all white screen.
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