Thank you for the reply and I was able to load nic drivers directly from Intel to the boot image and the new E6440 model worked for a couple of days.
Now two days later we cannot reach the task sequence stage to complete the image on all of our Dell models. We do hit F8 and confirm there is an IP address which is good, but now we get the following "Failed" errors:
Failed to send DDR (0x80004005)
RegOpenKeyExW failed for Software\Microsoft\SMS\Task Sequence
GetTsRegValue() failed. 0x80070002.
The full smsts.log file attached. All distribution sites are having the same issue as well. (if this helps)
Thanks again
smsts_1.log