Optiplex 960 seems to take forever to boot to PXE

[etruscan]

I am currently building our sccm 2007 r2 environment from scratch and have run into a problem where Dell Optiplex 960 machines are taking a very long time to boot to WINPE through PXE. I've successfully deployed images to several other models of computers (motion c5, lenovo m57p, dell optiplex 745) without trouble. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to troubleshoot this? I've tried fiddling with the SATA settings, but this doesn't help.

 

server environment:

sccm 2007 r2 running on Server 2008(x64)sp1

[jeaostro]

hehehehe.. okay

[etruscan]

I would wait until RTM if I were you. We're not having any problems with the RC, but it did take me a week to get the environment back up and running after installing RC sp2. Ofcourse you may have an advantage in that you will actually know that RC sp2 is installed.