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 Post subject: "searching for server (BOOTP)..."
PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:59 pm 
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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


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 Post subject: Re: "searching for server (BOOTP)..."
PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:40 pm 
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is the bootP server online and on the network, that's be the place to start,
where is the bootp server?


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 Post subject: Re: "searching for server (BOOTP)..."
PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:58 pm 
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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...


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 Post subject: Re: "searching for server (BOOTP)..."
PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:29 pm 
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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.


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