Yesterday we set up an Windows Server 2008 R2 on a HP DL380 G7 to run Symantec Altiris for deployment. However, whatever we did, it just didn’t work! The computers couldn’t PXE-boot. After a lot of googling and testing, we finally found the problem: On the physical NICs, you need to turn of Checksum Offload, Large Send Offload and TCP Connection Offload. It’s possible that you don’t need to turn off all of these services, I didn’t have the time [...]
I have a HP EliteBook 8440p (VQ668EA#AK8, i7-620M-processor 2,66 GHz 4 MB L3-cache, 4 GB RAM, un2420 Mobile Brodband module and 160 GB SSD disk) for the lab. As always, I formatted the drive and re-installed the OS. Then I needed some drivers, so I was looking at hp.com for drivers and software for the 8440p – 77 items (!). No way I’m installing all that crap. What do I really need of all this stuff? How much does it [...]
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