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WOL BIOS settings for Dell OptiPlex 3020
We have no issues with Wake on LAN (WOL) with our Dell OptiPlex 3010 machines, but I cannot get our Dell OptiPlex 3020 machines to boot in the same way.
In the BIOS I have enabled WOL and PXE booting as follows:
System Configuration > Integrated NIC
Enabled w/PXE is ticked
Power Management > Wake on LAN:
LAN with PXE boot is ticked.
If I send a WOL signal, without PXE, I simply want to boot the machines normally into Windows, the 3010 machines will wake and look for a PXE server, when none is available, they will exit boot from LAN and boot from disk. Which is how I want it to work.
But the 3020 machines - which are set up as close to identically as the 3010s as possible - will also wake and look for a PXE server, but when none is available they will ask for a key to be pressed before they will boot from disk. That's no good; I want them to boot into Windows (without user intervention) if there's no PXE server available!
If I set the 3020s to simply "Boot from LAN", then sending a WOL signal will correctly boot them into Windows. But that's no good either, as I want to have the option to PXE boot the machines remotely from time to time, as I want to be able to re-format a whole room of PCs using SCCM occasionally.
Does anyone know what the correct BIOS settings should be, to get the same result on the 3020s that I get on my 3010s?
Thanks in advance.
Cafetom
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June 17th, 2015 07:00
Hello there,
Did you ever find the answer to this problem? I am having the exact same problem you are having, and thought I was going crazy until I found your post.
Tom
babaton
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September 19th, 2017 04:00
I have the exact same issue but no solution. The other option is to use the automatic boot time setting n the bios.
I'd rather manage all our PCs using a single method though.
babaton
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September 19th, 2017 07:00
fixed it, update the bios and it fails over to HD ok.
www.dell.com/.../driversdetails