Slow Win2k Reboot

[jt63]

I'm having a weird problem with Win2k. The initial bootup is fine, but when I reboot the machine, I noticed that it takes a long time for the gui to finish loading. Everything comes up normally, but if I click the Start button, nothing happens for a good 45-60 seconds. The button just stays depressed and finally responds after about a minute. I initially thought it had something to do with my NIC card because it took that long for the "network cable unplugged" icon to show up in the system tray. So I unplugged the NIC card from my other machine and had no problem. This does not occur with Win98SE or WinXP Pro. I did clean installs of all the OSes and only installed drivers, no apps. My system specs are (no snickering, it's just something I beat up on until I can afford to build an nice Atlhon XP machine.):

Asus P3V4X
Intel PIII 800EB (not overclocked)
3 Maxtor 5400RPM ATA100 drives on a Romtec Trios
Visiontek GeForce3 Ti200
Linksys NIC
Sound Blaster 16PCI
ADS USB Card
SMC 2662 Wireless USB Adapter

Any ideas why this is happening?

 

[SaigonK]

Do you have any antivirus software loaded?
I know that Mcafee can cause thiese types of symptons on win2k pc's....also check to see how much stuff you have loading on startup.
I run a PIII866 on an ASUS CUSL2 with 512meg and it runs just fine, dont think you need to worry about a new pc quite yet!

 

[jt63]

I've got nothing loaded on this machine except the OS and the drivers. I could understand if I had a boatload of stuff in Startup, but this thing hasn't got any apps on it.

 

[azkiwi]

I have as similar problem. In Event Viewer it says I am experiencing 30000 millisecond "timeout waiting for a response from the DNScache service". CPU usage goes to 100% and effectively stalls any other app from operating until after the timeout - at which point everythnig is fine.

Sometimes I get the same message (and sypmtoms) except its "dmserver".

I would love to know how to fix this, since its the only flaw in the perfect (for me) rig.

 

[jt63]

bump

 

[azkiwi]

I found one article in the MSKB that references my event error:



<< When you create or modify an Internet Information Server (IIS) application, directory, virtual directory, or site, one or more of the following symptoms may occur:

In the Event Viewer, one of the following events may occur (please note that the application path listed in the description will vary depending on the path to your application):


Source: w3svc
Event ID: 36
Description: The server failed to load the application "/lm/w3svc/1/root" The error was 8007053D.

-or-

Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7011
Description: "Timeout (120000 milliseconds) waiting for transaction response".


>>



I'm using 2K Pro not server. Is this even relevant? I sure hope not because I don't understand a word of the proposed solution