ThomasC

Hi, I'm a colleague of mkeller, so let me clarify a bit until he replies @getwired: Yes, the NIC is supported and works fine. In fact, everything we want tdo with WinPE works just fine when we simply plug in an old PCI graphics card into the same machine. Take it out, try again, it doesn't even ping. I verified so far that the WindowPE image actually gets loaded from our TFTP server, so @ChrisBaksa: yes, the hardware does support booting without a graphic card. We use the same hardware for Linux installs, and they work fine. Just to clarify a bit: We boot a Windows PE image from an internal TFTP Sever, using PXE boot. I can see (on the TFTP server) that - even without a display adapter installed - the machine downloads the PE image and tries to start it. So booting without a graphic card is not a problem. To narrow it down, I modified the autorun0network.cmd to put out some "checkpoint" messages in a log file on C:\. Again, these are present WITH a graphics installed, and are not without one. So, that .cmd file doesn't even get executed, which leads me to believe the error is already happing at boot time of the PE image. Problem is: How in the world can I find out what the problem/issue/error message is, without having a display adapter?! To add to the misery, the Motherboard doesn't support console redirection As for why we have hardware without onboard graphics: We had to order this special board because it was the only one that met all the requirements we had at the time we had to order it. We'll get other Hardware WITH display adapters only in a few weeks time, so we somehow have to get PE running on these boards in the mean time. Beats me how to do it, though... Any ideas? Thanks, Thomas