Extremely slow bootup with W2K on office LAN

[BlueWeasel]

We have just upgrade our computer system at work to 1ghz P3's with W2K Pro as the operating system. Our LAN is small (six computers total - 4 W2K workstations, 2 Win98 workstations).

I have setup the network using TCP/IP and NetBEUI as the only protocols installed and it works fine. However, it takes what seems like forever for the W2K boxes to bootup (2 1/2 + minutes). Now I know that have a network card installed and being on a LAN will increase the bootup time, but this seems like just too long. I have ever assigned each computer with a static IP address (192.168.1.x)

I have a network card in my W2K system at home; however, I am not connected to a network and my bootup time is around 1 minute.

Any suggestions on why it takes sooooo long?

 

[bignick]

I'm not 100% sure that this is the problem, but I would make sure that in TCP/IP's properties, to unchkeck "register this connection in DNS". See if you don't use active directory, or have a DNS server to accept those updates, Win2k tries to send the update to the DNS server(s) listed in the DNS server list.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Thanks bignick for the suggestion. I will give it a try.