[WinPE not booting with certain network cards]

Alright, been a few days since my last trip here. The issue is still happening, even with forcing a different pxeboot.com.

Am I required to add drivers to RIS or something? I've checked all the configs and I really can't find any difference at all.

[How-TO? Ramdisk on WinPE]

Would a network share suffice?

[WinPE not booting with certain network cards]

One thing I noticed with 2003 is that it recognizes the client as x86. On 2008, it recognizes it as x64. I tried forcing the x86 pxeboot.com but still got the same result. *sigh*

[WinPE not booting with certain network cards]

No, the majority of computers I boot off of it work without a hitch. I'd say 90% of what I have, works flawlessly. There are just a very small few that have this problem.

I'll double-check all the settings between the two and see if I can find any discrepancies. Thanks for the quick reply.

[WinPE not booting with certain network cards]

No dice I have to say it was a good idea though! So the pxeboot.com file is not the culprit here, the problem must lay somewhere else.

Are there any other dependencies I could rip out of '03 and put in '08?

[WinPE not booting with certain network cards]

nVidia Boot Agent. It PXE boots just fine with Server 2003 x64 as the host, which is what is really confusing about the whole matter. I've got a couple other NICs that are onboard Realtek that are also in the same boat: boots with Server 2003, but not 2008. I checked the configurations of both and they're the same - used "wdsutil /get-server /show:config" to check. I enabled architecture detection also, no dice.

[WinPE not booting with certain network cards]

Hi all, I'm in a weird predicament and I'm not really sure how to go forward with this. Running Server 2008 x64, and using WDS to launch WinPE. Typical stuff. I'm running into this problem where after the client PC gets an IP from DHCP (running on the same server as WDS), the screen goes blank. Maybe after a halfhour after it sitting there doing nothing it will show the "Windows is loading files..." bar but it almost looks like it freezes there.

I've used the same PE file and put it on a bootable thumbdrive, and it loads from that without a hitch. I'm guessing it's something with the network card? Is there another pre-requisite I should be looking at to get these NICs to boot?

Chris