Slow Boot with New Network Card??

[RichDem]

I have just fitted a NetGear Ethernet card into my PC so that I can back up important files from my laptop and share the printer etc.

Everything is fine and I can see my laptop and from my laptop see my PC, even print files from my laptop. the only problem is that windows now takes ages to load, in fact the thing almost looks like it has crashed and then it carries on loading OK. My setup is as follows:

850 ThunderBird on KT7(Non Raid)
Windows 98 SE
Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 GTS
Weston Digital 13GB ATA33
VIA 4in1 V31
DirectX 8
Detonator V12.60

If I take the network card out everything is back to normal.

I have just installed Windows 2000 on another partition for the first time and I do not appear to have the problem, if anything the whole thing seems to be running faster. If everything goes OK then I may change to Win2000 on my main partition.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Regards

Richard Carter

[scourge]

I hear this is not an uncommon problem. Can you set a permanent address for your network card?

[RichDem]

Hi There,

I am a bit new to the world of network cards, do you know how to do this?

Regards

Richard

[KewlSaint]

What protocols you are using ?
If using TCP/IP, assign a static IP address. In the control pannel... Network, you can do this.
How do you attach your laptop to your desktop ?

[desmocat]

What I did was give the computer an address of 10.1.1.1 and it sped up the boot process.
The reason for the long boot time is the NIC is looking for a DHCP server somewhere to give it an IP address.
When you have a machine on a network,it boots up and doesn't have an IP addy, it starts saying "I don't know my IP address, please give me one" and the DHCP server will offer an address and if the machine accepts it,the boot process continues. What takes so long in this instance is that the NIC doesn't ever get a reply, and it has to time out before continuing the boot process.
(This is a greatly simplified version of what happens, for a short and sweet answer) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by desmocat (edited 07-19-2001).]

[Rhino302]

If you don't wanna share the interent connection, you can just forego TCP/IP altogether. YOu can use just IPX...it will probably even browse the network faster too.