ranjb Posted August 5, 2010 Report post Posted August 5, 2010 Hi Was wondering if someone can help. We have a bare bone customised image of WIndows 7 enterprise on a new WDS server we created. It runs on Server 2008 R2 so has the extra features of WDS such as driver injection but when we boot via PXE on a few laptops and choose the image, it begins the progress bar but then just says "windows is loading files" and just hangs there. It only seems to be with 2 specific laptops which have a CLEVO motherboard, other desktops and laptops seem to be fine. We have injected the proper network and chipset drivers into the boot image. There wasn't a BIOS update needed for these laptops. Whats odd when it boots up WDS it tries to load x64 WDS. We have WDS on a x64 server,is this why it is happening? Has anyone had similar issues like this. All I want to do is put a customised wim file onto a laptop. Is there a way I can use imagex to deploy a wim file. I tried to do it with imagex /apply but it failed. Any advice would be most appreciated. Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ljugtomten Posted November 8, 2010 Report post Posted November 8, 2010 I'm having the exact same problem with a HP Pavillion dv9312eu laptop. (nVidia LAN) Retrieving Boot.SDI takes approx 20mins (3MB file) and Boot.WIM takes days. Got both a x64 and x86 image, same behaviour on both. Other machines grabs the files very quick, one had even deployed the whole Win7 Enterprise in the time the laptop retrieved 40% of Boot.SDI WMMAYMS / Tobias, got any suggestions? Edit: WDS runs on Server 2008 R2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ljugtomten Posted November 8, 2010 Report post Posted November 8, 2010 I'm having the exact same problem with a HP Pavillion dv9312eu laptop. (nVidia LAN) Retrieving Boot.SDI takes approx 20mins (3MB file) and Boot.WIM takes days. Got both a x64 and x86 image, same behaviour on both. Other machines grabs the files very quick, one had even deployed the whole Win7 Enterprise in the time the laptop retrieved 40% of Boot.SDI WMMAYMS / Tobias, got any suggestions? Edit: WDS runs on Server 2008 R2 I found the problem.. Changing the port in the switch from autonegotiate (1000/100/10) to 100FDX solved it and things went much faster. Must be some problems with the autonegotiating of speed in the nVidia chipset on the laptop. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...