Anybody have any suggestions on why my computer would take so damn long to boot up?!?

[maximus]

please help
tyan trinity k7 mobo
athlon 750
128 infineon cas2
voodoo 3 3500
sound blaster live x-gamer
pioneer 16x dvd
mitsumi 4x2x8 cdrw
3com etherlinkXL pci ethernet card

 

[Lvis]

It's your nic, windows is looking for an ip address. If you do a search, this topic has been discussed a lot.

 

[Slikkster]

L vis is most likely correct. If you set your nic's IP address to one of the "non-routable" IP addresses specifically set aside for internal networks, it should boot up pretty quickly. An example is:

192.168.0.1

This, of course, assumes that you haven't been assigned an IP address for the card for ADSL, for example.

 

[pylorns]

If its not your nix, its your soundblaster stuff you have loading up. type msconfig at start>run>msconfig and then take out all the un-nessessary crap that loads up. Especially if you see "load power profile" twice... take one instance out.

 

[CyBOrz PaCe]

Hey Pylorns.

I see that "load power profile" twice all the time when I run msconfig on different computers... Just wondering what that is and what causes it to be written more than once in the start up files??

Thanks

CyBOrz