Yes, will get the model number. Just had to inject the drivers into WinPE and all was happy.
It’s the same adapter that the new Dell XPS laptops support. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niall Brady Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] UEFI network boot extremely slow on Surface Pro 3 with Microsoft USB nic. hi Christopher, have you used that nic with the surface 3 using UEFI network boot ? does it work. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Also, we settled on the StarTech USB NIC’s at my current client. They seem to be universally compatible with everything we’ve tested. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Niall Brady Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:59 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] UEFI network boot extremely slow on Surface Pro 3 with Microsoft USB nic. Its server 2012r2 i believe, ill double check Sent from my phone, please excuse any typo's as a result. On 02 Sep 2014, at 15:33, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Also, your PXE server wouldn’t happen to be 2008r2, would it? UEFI booting is wonky with 2008r2, Stand up a 2012(r2) box as a PXE server and give that a go. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niall Brady Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:34 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] UEFI network boot extremely slow on Surface Pro 3 with Microsoft USB nic. Wont that impact all devices that uefi/pxe boot on that dp ? This is the only device that is slow, 3 hours to download boot.wim over uefi Sent from my phone, please excuse any typo's as a result. On 02 Sep 2014, at 15:11, Justin Chalfant <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: In my experience, Surface Pro’s take longer than PC’s with built in NIC’s. Try this Created registry key RamDiskTFTPBlockSize under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\DP with Hex value as 1456 should help a little. Thanks, Justin Chalfant Premier Field Engineer – Configuration Manager Public Sector Microsoft Services Tel : (303) 846-2701 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> If you have any feedback about my work, please let either myself or my manager Ron Hill know at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niall Brady Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:37 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] UEFI network boot extremely slow on Surface Pro 3 with Microsoft USB nic. hi, i'm testing a surface 3 with uefi network boot (cm12 r2 CU2) and the download of the boot wim is extremely slow, like painfully slow, the usb nic is a microsoft nic which i got with my original surface and i'm using that because it seems the usb3 lenovo nics wont work with the Surface3 for UEFI network boot. so, is this supported or a known issue ? also is it a requirement to use Microsoft branded usb nics with the surface brand for UEFI network boot ? anyone know ? cheers niall.
