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April 24th, 2004 12:00
Network Card causing very slow startup
I am stumped. I installed a new Netgear GA311 gigabit adapter. The card worked great and by surprise solved a very slow startup problem that I had given up on trying to find the cause of. I went from a 90 second boot to about 15 seconds. Now, since I just reformatted the hard drive to give the system a fresh spring cleaning, I am back to an even longer boot of around 2 minutes. There are no updated drivers for the card and I have not done anything different to the system. Can someone please help? I'm very frustrated to think I had solved a problem and now it's worse than ever. I went through msconfig. and unchecked everything but to no avail. If I unplug the cable to my dsl modem it boots very fast again, so it's something with the card or settings. Thanks, Dimension 8200 @2.0 GHZ. 512 Megs. of Ram. I do have Norton Antivirus but I disabled it. That makes no difference.
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ceri sheeran
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April 24th, 2004 12:00
Hi,
Try using a different PCI slot for the NIC
You do not need a gigabit card for a cable connection. Your cable connection cannot possibly run at the speed of the card. The card is only intended for very fast networks, home or office. Even a 10 MBS network card is fast enough for a cable connection.
Talk to you cable service providor about the delays.
If you have a home network, look at waiting until the computer has fully booted before you power up the home network. I have a Netgear ADSL cable router. This has a mains power switch. I leave the thing off until my computer has finished booting and everything, firewall & AV is all up and running.
Please re-enable NAV, this is critical. Update it and run a full scan.
Download, installl, update and run Ad-Aware, Spybot, CWshredder and Spyblaster. Remove everything they find.
What firewall are you running. This is again critical If you don't have one download and install Zone Alarm free from http://www.zonelabs.com. If you are using XP disable the XP Firewall.
hth
Ceri
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April 24th, 2004 14:00