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| Thread ID: 18765 | 2002-05-01 21:47:00 | Win 98 takes ages to load. | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 46717 | 2002-05-01 21:47:00 | I've got major problems starting win98. It takes alomost 3 mins to load after installing my PCI network card. Prior to installing the network card it still takes about a minute to load. I have a PCI modem, Buz capture card and the network card all sharing the same IRQ (11). When loaded the system device manager reports no conflicts. I can only manually change the device settings for the PCI modem, everything else is unable to be changed. Using Win95 OS2 I could change the modems IRQ address and this sorted the startup problem. Under Win98 it makes no difference if the Modems IRQ address is changed, Win98 still takes forever to load. I have repartitioned my hard disk/reformatted and reloaded Win98 from scratch. Win98 seems to be running like a dog. Anybody out there able to Assist?? My System: Duron 1.3 Ghz processor 128meg SDRAM Gigabyte 7ZXE motherboard with onboard sound disabled Iomega Buz video capture card and SCSI controller Yamaha Sound Card Trident 9750 AGP Graphics card ASUS DVD ROM drive Mitsumi 4x CDwriter Thanks! |
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| 46718 | 2002-05-01 22:37:00 | Hi Dave Is your network card currently communicating with external network devices? If you have just installed it in anticipation of network use, your computer will spend time looking for the network during Win loading. If you are not using it yet, or to verify that it is only the NIC that is slowing things down, disable it temporarily in Device Manager and see if loading speeds up. I'm no networking expert but I have twice experienced your problem with Win98, once when I had nothing connected to the card and the other time when all external connections were inactive. If the NIC is being used and loading is slow, post that info and one of the Forum's networking gurus will doubtlessly be able to help you. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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| 46719 | 2002-05-02 04:36:00 | Also try manually setting an IP address, instead of making it obtain one manually. Brendon |
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