There's no reason it wouldn't. The problem is finding the right drivers. Most of the time the Windows 2003 drivers will work just fine, but if not, you can always go to the manufacturer of the component to look for appropriate drivers there.

The chipset is the Intel 7520, so chipset drivers can be gotten from Intel's website. The videocard is an ATI 7000-M, for which you can probably just use the latest catalyst drivers from ATI's website. The NIC is by Intel as well, tho I'm not sure which model (but Intel tends to use universal driver packages, so you can probably just pick one and even if it isn't the exact nic, the driver package will support most/all Intel NICs).

Cool.  Thanks for the reply.

I was hoping that would be the case.  The reason I asked is that I'm currently having an issue with another large manufacturer's 1U rackmount server that for some strange reason BSODs during the WinXP install process.  I have an application that would be better to run on WinXP, and this large manufacturer is very quick to shrug their shoulders and say "WinXP is not supported"...  you'd think that they would at least give me a hint as to the cause.  If I were a system manufacturer and was going to lose out on sales of a good number of units because of an OS incompatibility, I'd want to help solve it, even if in an "unsupported" manner...

Anyways...  thanks!

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Most system manufacturers don't worry about OSes that aren't intended for the system type as the cost of certifying (testing and writing new drivers if needed) an OS can be pretty high, and if the deployment base (demand) is very small there's not enough return on investment to justify the cost.