Win98SE takes forever to start up (used to take 20 seconds)

[Yerdy]

Just built a T-bird 900 with iWill KK266 and successfully installed much software and most hardware. After installing the drivers for the linksys etherfast 10/100 card, my Win 98SE now stalls for 30 seconds at the windows front screen and for 75 seconds at the command prompt during startup then finally loads to the desktop. This seens like forever compared to before when it took about 20 seconds. What has happened? Quick POST is enabled. Is there something I can do to check why it is taking so long to startup?

Thanks

 

[Qman71]

This usually happens when the network card is set to use DHCP and no DHCP server is available. If during this long waiting period you hear no disk activity, then I would suspect this to be the problem.

 

[eyez]

Probably two things are happening with your system:
1. too many programs loading at start-up. A lot of program load up some sort of monitor/scheduler even of you are not directly using it. Goto msconfig to check what's loading, and play around a bit.
2. your NIC probably confirming your networked computers. Just have to wait until its done.

 

[RayThunderEarth]

i guess u check your network setting and try to disable unuse program at start up windows

 

[chaevans]

It's the NIC card. Mine does the same thing. It is rather annoying but unfortunately I haven't heard a way around it.

 

[Yerdy]

Thanks for the quick responses. During this long wait, there is no disk activity, so it must be checking for networked computers. Actually I'm glad this is the problem and not something else.

Thanks

 

[kami]

just do this... go to your NIC's TCP/IP properties and assign it an IP address (192.168.0.1) and a subnet mask (255.255.255.0)

reboot.

voila.

 

[buybye]

I've had the exact same experience and knew it was the network card causing it but had never found a way around it.

kami - What does assigning these addresses do and why does it work? Not doubting it does, mind you. I'm just the "wanna know why" type.

 

[chaevans]

Giving your computer an IP address eliminates the time during bootup where your LAN server's DHCP is assigning one to your computer. For some reason though when I do this I just cannot connect to the DSL feed.

 

[eyez]

your isp or router probabably dynamically assigning you an id.

 

[Philly C]

Yea, if you're using DHCP, assigning an IP manually yourself will probably prevent the DHCP server from assigning a proper IP address for you.