willpski,

Thank you for using the Dell Community forums.

For information on setting up a RIS deployment, and the choices available for doing so, you may wish to refer to the following Microsoft articles for guidance.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q300483&

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q254078&

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q278011&


This is not really something we can assist with in this board. You may wish to post your question in the Server Software boards, to see if someone there may be able to help you with these issues.

THanks for your reply.  I am not having a problem with the software end of the RIS deployment I am having a problem with the integrated NIC picking up an IP address from the DHCP during the PXE boot up.  would I be better off in a hardware fourm?

 

Thanks

 

Will

Our GX60s work fine.

Droid

did you check to see if you authorized your RIS server in Active Directory. If not what you have to do is install DHCP services on your RIS server. Authorize the DHCP server then disable the DHCP Server Service (this way it will not interfere with your current DHCP server). I found this out in the books I have to study for the 2k cert.

Hope that helps.

I am now experiencing the same problem.  I have around 25 Dell Optiplex GX60's.  About 20 of these were purchased back in June 2003 with BIOS version A03.  The last five of these machines have been purchased over the span of the last 12 months, BIOS A06.

For some reason the Micrososft RIS boot disk will boot in the newer GX60's and detect DHCP server, and the older GX60's will just continue searching for a DHCP server until saying DHCP server not found.

All the machines are running on the same network switches, and I've gone as far as to unplug the network cable from one of the newer GX60's and plugged into an older GX60 and tested, with no joy.  The servers are Dell, running Windows 2000 SP4.

I have since updated the BIOS of one of the older GX60's and one new GX60 to both A09, but the same problem occurs in relation to the computers.

I have navigated through the BIOS's on each machine and found they are configured default as shipped by Dell, with exactly identical settings.

Just to clarify - the RIS boot and subsequent build works perfectly on the newer GX60's, but the older machines will not pick up the initial DHCP poll.

On the Windows 2000 DHCP server, both the older GX60's and the newer GX60's do register with the scope when attempting to obtain an IP address.  It is clearly visable that both machines communicate with the server.  It appears that the server acknowledges the request and replies, but only the newer GX60's confirm the reply from the Windows 2000 server.