windows 7 iscsi variable boot times - could ixpe be causing it?

[bunoc]

Hi,

It seems i have found the fix for this issue. A BIOS upgrade to the latest version (1802 as of now).

Since none of the driver options to disable reduce speed on power down and friends worked, i tried booting linux a few times for comparison and saw the exact same behavior. This showed the issue was not Windows specific.
I had previously done a BIOS upgrade before and didn't made any difference but when i tried again a few days ago it worked; and worked for a dozen or so computers (something must have gone wrong with the first BIOS upgrade).

The NIC still goes into 10Mbps when i reboot the PCs, however now it gets set to 1000Mbps when PXE kicks in (while before it would stay 10Mbps until half the OS was loaded).

Feel free to close this thread.

Thanks.