Well I am actually even more confused now. After following your
suggestion regarding the DEP I was still getting the same error so I
tried installing ESX 4 and it worked. I have 5 other machines with
almost identical configs. They all have the broadcom 2port onboard nic
with 2 additional addon broadcom 2 port nics and a dual port Qlogic
ISCSI HBA. They all use the same PERC controller and the only thing
that is unique to the machine I am having issues with is that it runs a
2.66GHz proc instead of the 3GHz proc on the other 5 machines. I have
checked everywhere I can think of for an explaination to my issue but
no one seems to be having this issue. I have also tried grabbing a frsh
copy of the ESXi .iso to rule out bad media/download and still I run
into the same error message with ESXi 4.
Cheers,
GM