IP Lease not renewing while in PE during Win 7 build

[SteveH]

I've seen other posts that hint at this issue but haven't really found a definitive solution.

 

I installed a large batch of Windows updates to my Windows 7 OS image and found that some of my slower desktops were getting the "... has failed with the error code (0x80070002)" while either downloading the OS image WIM or immediately after applying the WIM. I used the command prompt to run a ping while the system was building and found that about 1 hour into the build I'd lose IP and the system would "pull" an autoconfiguration 169.x.x.x address. If I manually run an ipconfig /renew I'm able to pull an IP again but it looks like PE isn't renewing the lease automatically. Once the system boots to a full Windows I'm not having any DHCP renewal issues.

I've been using a WinPE 5.1 boot image for several months now but only recently experienced this problem, though I'm assuming I only notice the issue now that my Win7 WIM file is large enough to take an hour.

 

Because of the way this particular network segment is used I'd rather not extend the lease beyond an hour. Is there anything I can do to get my PE systems to renew their IP lease like they're supposed to? Any help or advice is appreciated! Thanks

[anyweb]

i've seen this issue too ! and we are investigating it i'll update when i know more,

how are your dhcp servers setup ? are they microsoft or other ?

[SteveH]

We're (still) using Microsoft's DHCP services on a 2003 server. It isn't integrated to our Active Directory, its just a standalone DHCP server.

 

I tried adding an "ipconfig /renew" between the other steps in the task sequence but it didn't help since the "Apply Operating System" step takes such a long time on these particular client systems. Thanks!

[anyweb]

I wonder if it's switch related, what switches do you have between the clients and the dhcp server...