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Dell Optiplex 3020 with SCCM BARE METAL PXE BOOT PROBLEMS
I seem to be having a terrible time bare metal booting this station via SCCM PXE. Here's the situation.
My BIOS settings are as follows
UEFI turned off
Legacy boot on
Secure boot off.
Latest BIOS A03 from Dell is installed.
When attempting to pxe boot via sccm winpe loads but EXTREMELY SLOW. My Optiplex 3020's have the Realtek nic. My boot image has all the right drivers, because I have connectivity (I have a valid IP) and I imported the Realtec Windows 8 32 bit nic driver straight from dell into the boot x(86) image , and if I press F8 after pxe winpe boot image finally loads and do the following comands in a cmd window
diskpart,
list disk
I can see the disk.
We are running SSCM 2012 R2, our Boot (x86) image is 6.3.9600.16384, which is winpe 5.0 which is based on Windows 8 so I downloaded the Winpe50 cab from dell and imported the storage and nic drivers for the Dell Optiplex 3020 system.
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/5029.winpe-5-0-driver-cab.aspx
I also tried the x86 storage and network drivers from here
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/5085.optiplex-3020-windows-8-driver-cab.aspx
Still WinPE is extremely SLOW, in excess of 20 minutes to boot into WinPE from an SCCM PXE BOOT.
I also tried this http://www.charliemaurice.com/?p=151.
The problem is persistent on ALL of my Optiplex 3020's
BCSTechD
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August 21st, 2014 06:00
Would be interested to hear what others experience on that matter.
__Joe
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August 21st, 2014 12:00
Specifically, for this scenario, I would rule out that none of the other WinPE drivers are causing the issue.
MRFOOFOO: Can you copy your SCCM x86 boot image (bare boot image - no drivers in it) and then make a new boot image with the WinPE 5.0 imported drivers. You want to make sure no other WinPE version drivers are included in the boot.wim.
mrfoofoo
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September 5th, 2014 08:00
I made a clean boot image with only the dell winpe 5.0 drivers injected, PXE BOOT is still HORRIBLY SLOW.
What is wrong with these model of machines?
Beastcave
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November 12th, 2014 04:00
Hi, I have similar problem but in opposite way. With Legacy BIOS, it boots quicker but when it's in UEFI mode, it boots a lot slower. Wasn't UEFI supposed to be the latest technology and faster than legacy? I'm confused! :)
With Legacy BIOS, I'm having problem retaining the connection during WinPe process.
I have compared with two different model OP390 and OP3020. I'd say at this time OP390 kicks OP3020 with PXE booting.
Does anyone have this problem? DO we need to flash the NIC?
j.maldonado
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January 17th, 2017 15:00
Its 2017 and these issues are still occurring with newer hardware , ie... Precision 5510
Legacy booting is 5 minutes VS UEFI booting 30 minutes.