We have seen similar issues with a Marvell Yukon NIC driver on 'e' series Lenovo models. They released an updated driver in July to fix it. The issue is the driver never properly releases the IP before the reboot. We had to update our XP, Win7, and WinPE (Win8) driver before all the issues went away.
Our only fix before the new driver was to shut the machine down for 60 seconds or disable/enable the NIC in the bios. -Daniel Ratliff -----Original Message----- From: Atkinson, Wade A [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:07 PM Eastern Standard Time To: '[email protected]' Subject: [MDT-OSD] Windows 7 DHCP Renewal Oddity during Windows Setup Has anyone noticed that during Windows 7 setup mode DHCP does not renew the same way as when the OS setup has completed? Here is what I have seen. In some locations with lots of people in and out of the building the network team has set the DHCP leases to something fairly short (30 min – 2 hours). In these locations if the image ever takes more than that lease time before a reboot the machine drops it’s IP and the image will fail. The machine does seem to renew at each reboot. Once the image is complete the Windows 7 machines renew at the ½ life of the lease like normal. Pressing F8 and running an ipconfig /renew will renew the IP properly, but Windows just doesn’t do it on its own. I have been trying to get all of the subnets changed to at least a minimum of 4 hours, but we keep running into this one. I was just curious if anyone else had seen this? Is it by design? Is there a way to change this behavior? Thanks, Wade Wade Atkinson, MCSE, Lead IT Engineer IS Workplace Technology _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CenturyLink|600 New Century | New Century KS 66031 office 913 738 5766 | cell 913 744 5455 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information.
