Win98 boot slow after spash-looking for network?

[dexmanone]

ok, so I can't figure this out. it happened last time i reformated but when i played with the Internet Connection Wizard it "fixed" itself so I just shrugged and forgot about it.

After being forced to reformat (stupidly moved a vxd file, argh!) I've now got the same prob. It boots past the bios entry fine, recognizing 4 hard drives, then recognizes 4 cd roms, then goes to spash screen, comes back, then hang for about a minute or so. Unusually long time in that area.

Is it looking for a network or something? Any ideas?

Thanks


Win98SE
AN11 (FIC) Board with 2x256 DDR & Athlon 1700+
Primary=Maxtor 80G + Maxtor 30G
Secondary=Seagate 60G 7200 + Maxtor 30G
Non-Raid Primary=Liteon 52x24x52 + Memorex 52x24x52
" " Secondary=Cheapo DVD/RW + DVD Rom


note: Secondary IDE driver probs, runs in DOS but no errors in Control\System. Also, would like to run Hard Drives as Primary on seperate channels but the "non-raid" won't let a hard drive set there, even with the jumbers in "non-raid".😕

 

[lobadobadingdong]

could be the 60sec. timeout for dhcp on your nic.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
could be the 60sec. timeout for dhcp on your nic.

Almost definately your problem, i used to get this all the time

edit: Many many years ago..

 

[LiLithTecH]

Do you have it set to 'Client for Microsoft Networks' rather than 'Windows Login'?

Right-click NETWORK NEIGHBORHOOD \ Properties to check.

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
could be the 60sec. timeout for dhcp on your nic.

yup. Used to annoy the hell out of me.
hell, but I was happy to see the back of '98!

 

[WTT0001]

Just in case you havn't gotten any help. Right-click on network neighborhood, select "properties", find the TCP/IP for your network card, Instead of "Obtain IP address Address Automatically" enter 192.168.0.1 as the IP address and 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask, Ok it and then reboot, problem should then be fixed😀

 

[dexmanone]

thanks WTT0001 for the tip. I've got this set already to keep my nic from looking for network and freezing my internet connection. In fact I just tried the PPoE with the same setting, um that doesn't work.

I'm using Family Logon,not Microsoft. Still can't figure this out...........any more ideas? It's bad enough you have to reboot everytime a setting is changed, but when it hangs like that it seems like forever!