Physical memory?

I know it's not actual physical memory I'm out of...

Let me explain what I have:

Gigabyte X58A-UD9 Motherboard w/ Intel i7 CPU

Patriot G-Series 24Gb PC3-12800 Kit (6x 4Gb DDR3 1600Mhz modules)

IBM ServeRAID M1015 with the M1000 Advanced Features key RAID adapter

6x 2TB SATA 2 drives

2x SAS 6GBps 300Gb drives

In the BIOS for the IBM ServeRAID I configured the 6 SATA drives into a single RAID 5 array, and the two SAS drives into a RAID 0 array. Worked fine.

System booted up, then when I went to boot from CD to install Windows 7, I got the following error:

"No physical memory is available at the location required for the Windows Boot Manager. The system can not continue."

Nevermind that cannot should possibly be one word in this context... More importantly, how do I get around it?

I already know if I remove the ServeRAID card, it'll boot just fine to the CD and then install... oh wait, no hard drives if I remove the card. So, kind of stuck. The SAS drives are my system drives, and I have no other way to connect them. Any ideas?

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