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NIC is causing a long pause at bootup...

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Hobbes28

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I installed a NIC (NetGear FA311, PCI) in preparation for Broadband (cable modem) and possibly a small home network, right now it isn't connected to anything. I figured out how to get it to not prompt me for a "Network Password" at startup but there is still a loooong pause before it boots to the operating system. Anybody have a tip, the machine used to boot really quick (older machine for the wife, MSI K7T Pro2A 512MB PC133, 32MB Radeon, 60GB WD, Lite-On 16X DVD and 48X12X48 CD-RW, Phillips sound card (PSC 704), v.92 WinModem, PCI USB 2.0 hub, etc.).

Thanks...
 
The delay is caused by the NIC trying to obtain a DHCP address. It will sit there until it times out which is what is causing your boot delay. If you go into TCP/IP properties of your NIC and give it a IP address like 192.168.0.1 or 10.0.0.1 and give it a subnet of 255.255.255.0 the delay will go away.

Make sure when you get your cable service to set those setting back to default!

 
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