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Win 98 waits everytime at bootup
Name: Yash Date: March 13, 2000 at 18:28:28 Pacific
Comment:
i have win 98 installed on a p-133 machine, 32 mb RAM. my computer waits for about 2 minutes everytime at the windows logo when i boot up. during this time, apparently nothing happens. it boots up normally (without delay) in safe mode. i have no network card installed. the cause of the delay is NOT in config.sys,autoexec.bat or win.ini . the problem could be with one of the drivers, but which one? please help!
Name: wong Date: March 13, 2000 at 19:10:25 Pacific
Reply:
Check you BIOS to see if there is a setting for "bootup from network". Make sure that it is set to NO or else it will try to look for network setting until timed-out.
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Response Number 2
Name: Yash Date: March 15, 2000 at 04:46:55 Pacific
Reply:
i have a old non flashable AWARD bios. and it doesnt have a network bootup option at all. now what? for some reason, i too think that it is a network driver. but then, i dont KNOW that for sure.
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Response Number 3
Name: yash Date: March 19, 2000 at 19:43:47 Pacific
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my problem got solved! actually, my computer was awating response from my syquest removable drive which i keep switched off most of the time. so all i did was to disable it from my hardware profile in the system properties and it stopped its 2 minutes halt at the logo screen.
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