Good afternoon all,
I'm having some issues deploying a sysprepped HII images to some HP Compaq 6305s. The basic issue that I'm having is that I can get it to load WinPE, open up the PXE menu, select a deployment script, and it just hangs.
To even get it that far I had to install a secondary NIC and run two ethernet cables into the box (one into the onboard, one into the card). Originally it wasn't able to load the NIC drivers once it booted into WinPE, despite having the 32 bit Win 7 drivers in the PE image. So the onboard is getting me into the PXE boot menu from Network Boot (using only the card didn't work), and then the card is successfully connecting to the network once it's actually in WinPE.
I managed to get it deployed to one HP this way, but the other two aren't cooperating.
I've covered all the basic troubleshooting steps, and verified that the current setup is working on the Dells that we customarily use (since the symptoms are what usually occur when the network path to the image file is invalid or the credentials are incorrect). So far I've:
- Imported the Win 7 32 bit drivers into the WinPE image file
- Updated the PXE Rep with the new boot.wim
- Completely uninstalled the PXE Rep and reinstalled
- Logged into a computer with the service account and manually verified both the UNC path to the image store and credentials
- Been able to successfully ping the image store, the PXE Rep, and the LanDesk server from the target HP both before and after selecting the deployment script
- Verified the deployment script on a spare Dell machine
- Verified the NIC is functional on the HP by booting into the OEM Win 7 that came with the machine
- Verified the HP is on the newest BIOS version for that model
- Unplugged the onboard (non-functional in WinPE) ethernet cable and verified that the card had a valid and functional connection, with a valid IP, then attempted to continue with deployment
I'm at my wit's end here. I have no idea why this wouldn't be working on the HP but is working on the Dell, and I have absolutely no clue why this worked once and won't work on the other two. I've never had this many issues depoying an image to new hardware. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!