Strange PXE-E53: No Boot Filename Received

[AllonsIT]

Quick question....

 

We have been deploying Win7 for a almost a year with no issues except for a few machines that dont seem to want to image. I'd say out of every 100 machines we image we will have 1 that fails with the PSE-E53 error. I've double checked the PXE boot settings and have updated the DP with both x64/x86 boot images with no success. The stranger part is that its mostly all of the same model machines and some have failed right out of the box.

 

Example: We un-box 25 Dell Optiplex 790's. 24 image while 1 fails with PXE-53 error.

 

We have collected 8 machines now that we are unable to image.

 

I'm out of ideas and any help would be appreciated.

[smbober]

If you ever find out WTF is going on with these, please let me know. I have an Optiplex 790 that does this and it is my reference hardware for image verification.

[AllonsIT]

If you ever find out WTF is going on with these, please let me know. I have an Optiplex 790 that does this and it is my reference hardware for image verification.

 

I had a handful of 790's that have done it but I havent looked into it further. However, it hasn't happened in a while. I rebuilt the image with a spare Win7 machine i had and a capture disk and then rebuilt the boot image with the drivers. Im not sure of what the issue was because the boot image is nearly identical to the old one, but so far so good.