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| 461304 | 2006-06-07 03:33:00 | Hi all I have a PC with a fresh install of Windows 98SE. It had a 56k modem which I took out and replaced with a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev C network card. Once I found the right drivers and loaded them up and rebooted the PC took an age to reboot - probably round the three and a half minute mark. It hung on the Windows 98SE splash screen for 1 min 53 secs and there was only sporadic bursts of activity from the machine during taht time. It was not taking anywhere near this long to boot prior to installing the network card. I have searched high and low on google for an answer to this but I am a wee bit stumped. The rest of teh PC specs are: Celeron 466Mhz CPU 192MB Ram 10GB Hard Drive Cd Writer Onboard video Any suggestions gratefully received. Cheers. :badpc: |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 461305 | 2006-06-07 03:44:00 | You may want to go to device manager and have a look to see whether your old modem is still loaded. Remove it and see whether that helps. | Taurus (9579) | ||
| 461306 | 2006-06-07 03:46:00 | I imagine it is looking for network traffic, dhcp etc. Win98 boots differently too 2k/xp in boot sequence. Try searching on Win98 boot NIC delay |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 461307 | 2006-06-07 03:47:00 | Hi I should have mentioned that in my first post. The modem is no longer in the device manager but thanks for the input!!! Still searching!! |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 461308 | 2006-06-07 03:52:00 | Reboot into safe mode then look in Device Manager. You'll see all sorts of old drivers. | pctek (84) | ||
| 461309 | 2006-06-07 06:28:00 | most likly you don't have an IP addy set for the network card, so its waiting trying to find one on startup. also a lot of firewalls will hold up bootup because of the network still waiting for the IP address. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 461310 | 2006-06-07 07:16:00 | Funnily enough i have just had the same problem on a PC i have been working on. It was connected to xtra via a D-Link 302G and a DI-524 wireless router. If the IP address was renewed and not updated on the ethernet card and then the machine rebooted i got the exact symptoms you mention above. The machine was runnng Windows XP (which had need installed on an upgrade from ME), additionally as the machine was booting up it always went to the drive error screen on boot and did a check of drive C:. Additionally to these symptoms i was completley unable to network the affected PC to my one. I used a crossover cable, the machines could see each other (pinged OK) but could not see shared files in MSHOME group, it was completley baffling. All i could suggest in the end was a reinstall of windows to see if that would help, we shall see... |
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