Why does it take so long to load?

[carmeo]

After i install my network card, wiondows takes a minute to load. so I need need to disable my card in order to make window load faser, but why?

 

[Guilty]

Disable DHCP since you're on dialup.

 

[carmeo]

I'm running on win98se,how should I diable DHCP?

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

carmeo,

Go to your network settings in control panel. Select your network connection that your NIC is using and click on the properties. Select TCP/IP and click the properties button. Make sure "Obtain IP address automatically", is not checked. This causes the computer to look for a DHCP IP on the network and is slower than if you just assign an IP and subnet mask to your local network NIC's.

 

[bacillus]

Open control panel

Open Network

Look for the first entry in the scroll box marked TCP/IP, that is associated with a hardware ethernet card (ignore dialup, AOL and VPN type bindings).

Select it and press properties

Select IP address from the tab

Is Obtain IP address automatically checked? if so, change that to Define IP address and enter 192.168.1.10, and 255.255.255.0, into IP address and subnet mask fields respectively
This assignment of a harmless local IP address to the TCP/IP settings bound (connected) to your network adaptor, will stop the in-built DHCP services from waking up every 10 minutes to look for a DHCP server so that it can "fill in the blanks".