The BIOS has an option called "LAN BOOT". This usually means PXE booting in most BIOS'. But for the life of me I can not get it to work.

Both NIC's are set to "ENABLED" yet I can never get a link light on either at launch nor does a boot to NIC option show up on the F11 menu.

Anyone else have this issue?

PS: I do have a fully working PXE server running. I use MDT 2010 to install all my home windows computers. Also the NIC's work perfectly fine in Windows.

jcgeny-

I do not get a link light at all with either port when it is in the BIOS. Once in windows both ports link and work fine. I have tried only enabling one than the other with no results. When "BOOT ROM" is turned on it does not show up in the boot order list or when I hit F11 to show the selection list. Only the HDD's show up.

I am going to mess with the BIOS settings more today now that I know the NIC's work fine at least in windows. Thats the main thing that had me worried. I really did not want to RMA the board.

EDIT:

Some progress. It seams that there are not enough resources or something to PXE boot even when "Load optimized defaults" is selected or off a CMOS clear.

I went through the BIOS and shut off everything I could find (USB3.0, Audio, RAID) except for the two NIC's and the "Enable boot ROM" option and I finally got it to come up in the boot order menu as well as F11. The NIC's came up with a link light as soon as the system powered on as well.

But if this is not a bug and is a outright hardware limitation why include the feature? I had to shut off a lot of things to get the option to show up. Even the RAID and SATA3.