[SOLVED] Problems Booting With PXE

firstm · 01-07-2009, 03:37 PM

Hi Guys,

Up until yesterday i was able to boot up with PXE accross different VLAN's and it's been no trouble at all. But now i keep receiving the error PXE-E11: ARP Timeout whenever i try to boot up. It was working fine until about 2pm then it just stopped working. I work in a school and there are only 3 of us working in the IT and we're 99% sure we havent changed anything which would affect this.

BUT there is one type of machine, a 2007 model lenovo which is able to boot when it's in a different vlan and i believe it's network card is a broadcom 57x netxtreme, yet no other machine works at all in any vlan other then the administrative vlan (1). I'm able to ghost if i boot up with a USB on the computers but it's also alot slower then usual.

So what i'm asking is:

1) What would cause me to get the PXE-E11 error & how can i fix it.
2) Why can one machine work and no other one can.

We use CISCO switches/routers if that helps.

Thanks in advance for your help.

firstm · 01-08-2009, 06:03 PM

I've continued to try and solve this issue, but i'm unable to determine what is causing the problem. Has anyone got any ideas?

01-07-2009, 03:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
firstm Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 5 OS: XP	[SOLVED] Problems Booting With PXE Hi Guys, Up until yesterday i was able to boot up with PXE accross different VLAN's and it's been no trouble at all. But now i keep receiving the error PXE-E11: ARP Timeout whenever i try to boot up. It was working fine until about 2pm then it just stopped working. I work in a school and there are only 3 of us working in the IT and we're 99% sure we havent changed anything which would affect this. BUT there is one type of machine, a 2007 model lenovo which is able to boot when it's in a different vlan and i believe it's network card is a broadcom 57x netxtreme, yet no other machine works at all in any vlan other then the administrative vlan (1). I'm able to ghost if i boot up with a USB on the computers but it's also alot slower then usual. So what i'm asking is: 1) What would cause me to get the PXE-E11 error & how can i fix it. 2) Why can one machine work and no other one can. We use CISCO switches/routers if that helps. Thanks in advance for your help.

01-08-2009, 06:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
firstm Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 5 OS: XP	Re: Problems Booting With PXE I've continued to try and solve this issue, but i'm unable to determine what is causing the problem. Has anyone got any ideas?