TeaNotCoffee1994

So I thought this fixed the issue but after re-imaging the same laptop I had changed the settings on (just to check for repeatability) we were then back again to waiting 2 hours for the "getting files ready" stage of the install, and following the same steps on some of the other laptops has made no tangible difference whatsoever. Quite worrying however when you speak to the manufacturers technical support and they don't know that their own product has an ethernet port...

SOLVED Rather unhelpfully on the bios there is a setting hidden at the bottom of the Exit tab regarding OS optimized defaults and this is set to UEFI by default, for some reason even when building using UEFI it was still painfully slow. I then changed this setting to Legacy and then built once again using the legacy option and this time the laptops built at a perfectly acceptable speed.

I don't think its the network speed, just set the old hp laptop and the new lenovo laptop to build at exactly the same time. The Lenovo laptop actually finished the "copying windows files" section quicker but has only reached 2% on "getting files ready for installation", meanwhile the HP has already finished installing Windows. Very odd.

I have tried using both options and the result was the same. I did notice that when I was able to log into the laptop it was missing the network driver and took an incredibly long time to install any deployed software. I have since injected the correct network driver into the build and software now installs at the speed I would expect, however the initial build is still inconsistent and slow (an old HP laptop with a traditional HDD from 2014 builds quicker). I'm sure there's something really obvious that I'm overlooking here.

Happy Sunday everyone, I have run into a bit of a strange issue with deploying Windows 10 Pro 20H2 using a PXE environment to a few laptops that were recently acquired. The laptops successfully download the installation files and get them ready, however upon restarting they sometimes do not take any notice of the autounnatend.xml file and prompt me to go through the normal Windows 10 setup process of selecting a region etc. The build works perfectly on every other PC and laptop so far that we have tested but none of them had a product key embedded into the BIOS, the laptops in question that are intermittently failing the automatic install have a windows 10 pro product key embedded into the BIOS and are attempting to install Windows 10 Pro from a PXE environment. Has anyone else come accross any similar problems trying to deploy a Windows installation to devices with embedded product keys? Thanks in Advance.