How to get the MAC address of the unit when thr is no OS installed on it

[jagdeeshbhagwant]

Hi everyone,
Can anyone explain me how to get the laptop MAC address when thr is no OS installed on the laptop. I wanna install win 7 OS , i'm trying to push the OS thru network on the laptop, i can't ping to the server neither i have access to cmd prompt .... plz assist


thanks and regards,
Jagdeesh Bhagwant

[Crazybanana]

if you enable PXE in BIOS (network boot) it will try to boot from the network and show you the MAC address in the process. So try reading the DHCP logs - or dump all broadcast traffic and filter DHCP traffic, then all newly powered machines without an OS should be shown in the traffic