I am good with computers, I used to moderate forums for Malware, but I know nothing really about SQL stuff or networking...

My buddy runs a bar and the Point of Sale computers(POS) around the bar are booting up and sticking at this error prompt:
searching for server (BOOTP)...

From what I understand the clients have no harddrive or OS on them and they are trying to contact the host computer for an TCP/IP address.

The host computer is operational with XP pro installed and the POS software is by a company called "Squirrel". They cannot help unless they spend 15K on a new upgrade.

I think this is an easy fix for an experience person. Is there a command within DOS or something in the Microsoft SQL I can run to find and detect these computers and get them up and running?


Thanks in advance, much appreciated...

LTP

is the bootP server online and on the network, that's be the place to start,
where is the bootp server?

I am not sure what you mean, "where is it". the computer is up and running, it is not connected to the internet, and it is manually given an ip address. If I try to get it to obtain one automatically it will not.

What process, or command can I look for or enter in DOS or elsewhere to find it BootP is running.

Thanks...

It most probably has a hardware fault and is falling back to network boot because of a error.


Go into the bios and check that everything is as it should be.