Boot up timeout

[HunteR7411]

I have just installed Win 98 SE and now when i start up my computer it freezes during the boot. I think i have narrowed it
down to a time out of some sort. it takes windows 1 min and 20 sec to load. this is absurd for the following.
pIII 450
soyo 6BA+III Motherboard
128 MB RAM corsair cas 2
viper 770 ultra
kenwood 52x truex cdrom
3com NIC card. i forgot the model number 390b...something like that. any suggestions would be a great help.

HunteR7411

[Nathan]

Do you have a modem in it? If so, pull it out.

Remove the NIC card and see if it boots up.

Does it boot into safe mode?

Was this a clean install or over 95, etc.?

[awwall]

You are not quite clear. Is the machine completely hanging now and never making it into Windows since you installed SE or is it just taking a long time to load?

If its just taking a long time to load, its probably because of the NIC. Windows takes a long time to check/identify/or whatever the NIC. I have seen this on several machines.

I don't remember where I saw it, but I remember reading that you can fix this by inserting an address for the card into NetWork Neighborhood. Try doing a search on windows slow loading and a NIC and I am sure you will run accross this info.

aw