stupid network card...

[highball]

Why do network cards slow down windows boot?
Is there ANY fix for this?

I'm sick of the 3 min. load times...

 

[GigaCluster]

I assume you're talking about the "Starting network..." or a similar message during Windows 2000 boot-up....... in which case, my Netgear NIC only takes about 3 seconds to initialize.

 

[highball]

Actuallly I'm talking about win 98SE.

The boot seq. gets to "completed updating config files, continuing to load windows" and sits w/ no hd activity for like 2 mins! then windows boots.
When I disable my network card (for dsl) I'm back to my good 'ol sub 1 min boot...

Any advice? Is this a settings issue or a fact of life?

my sdram machine

Thanks all,

 

[owensdj]

highball, network cards do NOT by themselves slow down Windows boot. It sounds like you have TCP/IP set to use DHCP for your network card. The delay is caused by Windows trying and failing to find a DHCP server at boot. I don't know anything about how you need to configure TCP/IP for your DSL connection, but if you can, set the TCP/IP settings for your network card to use a static IP address, such as 192.168.0.1.