Huge delay booting windows 2000

[teddymines]

During the boot stage of windows 2000, I get a delay of about 30 seconds. This is the part where the small blue squares indicate progress. About 9 squares shows, then the delay, then it proceeds.

Having come from 98se, which boots in about 15 seconds, this is annoying. Is there something I can disable to speed this up? I am not on a network, nor do I have any network card (just a modem).

 

[Mitzi]

Hum, I was going to say it could be because you don't have an IP address assigned and your machine is looking for a DHCP server but you then said you don't have a network card.

Try having a look in the event viewer and see if any services are failing on startup (just look for crosses or exclaimation marks).

Also Have you loaded on service pack 2?

 

[teddymines]

Right, no network card. Setup did ask me for a name and organization, then assigned a hokey computer name.

I'll look at the event viewer as you suggested. Maybe there are some services I can disable.

 

[teddymines]

The event viewer had this entry:
The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.

I'm running windows 2000 SP2, with via 4-in-1 drivers version 435. During bootup, I can see several devices being probed (modem/keyboard/mouse flash).

I installed the IDE filter driver, the AGP driver, and the Inf driver as recommended in the 4-in-1 driver readme.

Any tips?

Edit: fixed port number

 

[teddymines]

bump

Windows 98se boots in about 15 seconds! This is driving me nuts.

 

[btvillarin]

How many IDE devices do you have? Go to System Properties > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
Dbl-click on the Primary IDE Channel. Under the Advanced Settings tab, if any of the Current Transfer Mode boxes are reading as "Not Applicable", set the respective device type to "None". Do the same in the Secondary IDE Channel. This should speed it up a little, since it won't search for IDE devices when booting up.

Note: When you install a new IDE device, make sure you set it to "Auto Detection" in whatever channel you stick it on.