Hi Guys.

Asking here as part of my troubleshooting process.

I have a new Alienware Aurora R6. We utilize this machine in a Library environment for data virtualization.

That means I generally tend to image/capture all my machine builds utilizing MDT.

 

My problem is that I simply cannot get this machine to properly PXE boot.

It’s sporting the Killer E2400 NIC.

I’ve installed every driver I possible could on my MDT Server for the PXE boot, but this card simply will not establish a PXE connection.

It sees the media cable just fine, but that’s as far as it gets.

 

What I get is:

>>Checking Media Presence…….

>>Media Preesnt…….

>>Start PXE over IPv4.

 

And then nothing.

My MDT Server is fine. My network PXE infrastructure is fine. Everything along these lines works with all other machines, except this single Alienware (We’re Latitude and Precision heavy). I never had this problem with older Alienwares that were utilizing Broadcom NICs.

 

So does anyone have an idea I should try. Maybe you know something I don’t? Maybe a BIOS setting I’m simply not seeing or understanding?

 

Thanks!