strange issue w/d600 undocked

i think t may be trying..it does eventually connect when it boots up and the only thing that runs at the proper speed for the pc is the web browser. When i right click and disable the wireless card it runs better and boots faster. I have disable the wireless zero settings and am gonna try it with dell WLAN utiity now for a while and see. It is very strange how the performance of the box differs so much in the prescence of the wireless signal,,,very strange

Docked and undocked means you have two entirely different profiles loading so you need to investigate what is different about the two,  Like Steve said, the wireless card could be looking for a configuration that is not there when undocked.

all that i have is those 2 profiles,,,i changed the undocked profile to "always incude this profile as an option when windows starts"


and i chose "select the first profile if i don't choose one" in 5 secs.

gonna reboot now

no luck,,i timed it this time,,8 minutes to complete boot up..I t actually looks at times that the hard drive light is not even blinking or working. Then all of a sudden the icons pop up. I only have maybe 8 things in the msconfig for startup, but i guess i will go down the list one by one and start disabling and rebooting. I will disable the ssid broadcast also , hoping that the laptop will not pick up the signal and bott faster. ALso, would it be ok if I disabled the wireless card each time befre I shut down then enabled it and connected and boot up. The computer boots up normally this way?

ALso I have tried two wireless nics: the built in Dell card and a linksys plugged into the extra slot after disabling the dell one first of course.

thanks
Joe

YOu really have nothing to lose if you dlete the profile that is giving you problems and let it create a new one.

ok,,i did something and it booted normally. I went in and removed my preferred network from the windows wifi config. This way it didn't connect automatically at bootup. So now i have to go in and enter my wep or wpa key each time or type my ssid in each time. but at least i don't wait 10mins for a boot up. I also have to remove my network from the preffered list each time also.. I wonder if just disabling the card and enabling it on reboot would be easier than having to log back into and my ssid each time?? Why oh why does my Dell in the prescence of a standard wireless signal take 10mins to boot but boot normal when it is absent????

nope,,i ahve tried dhcp,,and i have tried a static outside of my dhcp scope on the laptop. If the card is enabled and the link light starts blinking we are in for a 10min boot. If the card/s do not see a link or are disabled it boots normally. I am going to delete the undocked profile monday and reboot and let it make another one and try that.

Cant' understand why that should make a difference unless you have some other service tied to that card like trying to connect to a server, join a domain, etc.

I checked my power settings and it was set to "home office/desk"

I changed it to "always on" and every drop down box is set to "Never". The same programs load docked or undocked and it boots slow undocked whether on battery or on power. It only boots slow and I mean only when there is a wireless network card enabled and a signal present. When a wireless card is enabled the bootup can take about 10 minutes and even when the icons appear the computer drags and runs very slowly. If I disable the wireless card ( and I hahve tried two cards ), the dell card and a linksys card the laptop boots up normally and all processed run fine. I then enable the card and my wireless connection comes up. But if I make the mistake of not disabling the wireless commection before shutdown then I am in for trouble the next boot.

I have tried all different wifi settings,,WEP, WPA, Open,,MAC filtering ,,all of them. There is no diffenence.