Deployment Solution

Hello,

I am attempting to perform a PXE boot to WinPE from DS 7.6 HF6 using WinPE 4.0 x32.

I also made the firmware configuration changes on the Surface Pro 4 documented in TECH225340.

I have the Surface Pro 4 attached to the new Microsoft Surface "Dock" and the Ethernet cable is plugged into the Dock. 

We do get a response from PXE asking to select what I want to do, either run WinPE 4 AM or boot off next device

I have attached a picture of what happens when I attempt to select my "WinPE 4 AM"

I can perform a PXE boot to WinPE 4 on ALL my HP Elitebook and Elite desktop systems.  It just does not work on the Surface Pro 4.

It must be somthing simple that is missing.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you,

mferguson4,

I have seen several cases where it has been difficult to PXE boot machines when their network connection is a dock. Do you have a USB-to-Ethernet dongle available? I have seen better results with these. Alternately, you could create a USB boot disk through the Boot Disk Creator and use that to boot it to automation, bypassing PXE.

Thank you,

Randall Newnham

I now have the Microsoft USB to Ethernet  dongle.  Still no differnece.

Does it matter if I have a WinPE x32 vs x64 version availible?

I will try the USB Boot disk next.

I create a WinPE 4.0 64-bit, now the Surface Pro 4 boots