PXE-E52 error

Have a very strange PXE issue I've never faced before. On an Optiplex GX520, receive "PXE-E52 ...No DHCP offers were received" condition when attempting to image via PXE or bootcd.iso. Every other PC images fine from this same live, network connection. Suspect bad hardware but NIC was working fine. I'm stumped.

Originally Posted by youngjforge
Have a very strange PXE issue I've never faced before. On an Optiplex GX520, receive "PXE-E52 ...No DHCP offers were received" condition when attempting to image via PXE or bootcd.iso. Every other PC images fine from this same live, network connection. Suspect bad hardware but NIC was working fine. I'm stumped.
I guess the best debugging approach is to take a packet trace of your network traffic to see if your workstation is actually senind any valid DHCP requests and if replies to those requests are being sent.

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