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Failure of booting from network
2025-12-18
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The following explains common reasons why network boot fails or the error “Boot Failed… Please check the image file or network” appears when booting a client PC on CCBootCloud.
- List of reasons that booting from network can fail
- If you get an error as Boot failed … please check the image file or network. This issue occurred after the PC name was changed. (Figure 1)
Figure 1
- PXE boot failure was caused by PC name conflicts in CCBoot.
- Always delete a PC from the Computer Page before renaming it.
- After major CCBoot upgrades, updating the client version may be sufficient to fix PXE boot issues.
- The BIOS setup is in a mess, please reset up the BIOS.
- Because of the humid climate, the connection between the RAM and the main board is not good. Please wipe the gold fingers in the RAM.
- The network cable is not well plugged.
- Sometimes the client does not boot, even after checking all possibilities in the server. This means the issue is with the network switch, you need to power cycle the switch (turn off/ on) once. After that clients will boot fine. If this happens frequently. We recommend replacing the switch with a better one.
- The electricity in the BIOS battery is not enough.
- Clients will fail to boot if the IP address of the client PC is conflicted with another PC or device (WiFi Extender, router, or mobile devices). If this happens please change the IP of the devices and reboot the client.