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| Thread ID: 22908 | 2002-08-02 05:12:00 | network card slows boot up | lark (1313) | Press F1 |
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| 67540 | 2002-08-02 05:12:00 | I am running win98 on a TLS computer celeron 333, 128 ram.I recently installed a network card (DSE PCI adaptor card ethernet) and found that windows takes ages to boot up, hanging after the first windows splash screen appears.If I take the network card out , all seems ok again.Any ideas ???? | lark (1313) | ||
| 67541 | 2002-08-02 05:45:00 | If you haven't got a network installed, uninstall the card (or unbind all protocols). The network software is trying to find other hosts on the network, and might be trying to find DNS servers etc. If there aren't any, this will slow you down. It is very patient about this. It waits a long time before giving up. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 67542 | 2002-08-02 05:48:00 | Try configuring it to a static IP Address Right-click on Network Neighbourhood find TCP/IP - YOU NIC CARD Click Properties Now configure it so it has a ststic IP Address and not automatically configured on boot. Something like: 192.168.0.2 would do That should speed things up a fair bit Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 67543 | 2002-08-02 06:06:00 | This is where Windows is searching for the network it is connected to. If it's not connected to a network it is going to take a while to boot up. I suggest that if the network card is not being used that you disable it in the Device Manager this will then let it boot up quicker. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 67544 | 2002-08-02 06:26:00 | many thanks for all of the above.Right on the mark thanks. | lark (1313) | ||
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