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Windows 2000 freezes for about 5 minutes during bootup...

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Mitzi

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I have been given an oldish PC from a friend in work, its only a Celeron 300 with 256Mb RAM and an old 4Gb HDD (I'm going to upgrade the HDD soon). I formatted the machine and installed Win2K and SP4 and it runs generally great ONCE its booted up though I've noticed that it takes a LONG time to get there and I don't think its due to the slowness of the CPU or HDD. During bootup, on the Windows 2000 loading screen the progress bar will get to about 50% and stay there for about 5 minutes..no disk activity or anything. I've checked the event logs but nothing is reported there.

Its not a huge deal as I plan to have the machine switched on most of the time (running a web server) though I would like to know why its so slow to boot.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

 
Try reinstalling the NIC or trying another NIC if you have one. Sounds like a bad driver or odd hardware problem to me if it takes that long to load.
 
To be honest its not a huge problem as I intend to leave the machine on 24 hours a day running a web server but I just thought I'd see if anyone else had a similar problem.
 
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