Win/XP, 866MHz/448MB. Boot sequence freezes up for about 1 min with no disk activity and no screen changes. Usually freezes with "welcome" displayed. Boot diagnostics has it locked in module mrxsmb for about 60 secs with only occasional CPU spikes to about 10% CPU, no disk activity. Prior to that mrxsmb was active for about 6 secs at 100% CPU. After that 60 second delay netbios has CPU at 100% with disk activity shown, followed again by mrxsmb for another 12 secs or so with heavy CPU/disk activity. Then other things occur that do not appear related to the long boot. The issue is mrxsmb doing nothing apparently for about 60 secs.
The computer is on a home LAN with 2 Win98SE computers. It is connected to the internet via an additional ethernet card to an external DSL modem. I am using ICS to share the connection across the LAN.
Once boot is complete, all works very well.
LAN IP address of XP computer is 192.168.0.1, with the others being 192.168.0.x x=2,5. The IP address of the DSL PPPoE connection is dynamically assigned by the DSL ISP. DNSs for the DSL connection are likewise dynamically assigned. LMHOST lookup is ENabled. (Dunno what that is or what it does)
Thanks for any advice. I'd appreciate an email to alaparos@bellsouth.net.
