PC In Mid-Boot Zazen shocker!

[SunDriedGrapes]

My machine has been doing this for a while, but now's the first time I've bothered to ask why...

Win98 seems to like pausing during boot-up. It really seems to be doing /nothing/ for quite lengthy periods. All in all, booting/reboot takes about a minute and a half. I wouldn't really mind (I don't reboot very often, thank God!) except that the machine seems to be doing nothing at all for quite a lot of the time - bar possibly attaining enlightenment through meditation. No disk activity, no flashing lights, no noise that goes 'ping'. Nothing. Odd.

I defrag fairly regularly, and keep a relatively clean registry. What /is/ going on? Any ideas?

Celeron533, 128MBs RAM Win98, G400max (PDesk 5.52), SBLive! (Live!ware 3), a couple o' Gigs free HDD space...and an MS Intellimouse with a stuck scroll-wheel...

[Jorden]

No idea's but for that my PC does exact the same... Although my drive light blinks waiting about every 4 seconds... Maybe it's Plugging in some Play stuff we don't know about?? ;-))

Jord.

[Technoid]

Yeah, W2K does the same!
It's anoying as *@#$£¤%!
It get's worse the more appz and drivers etc etc you install!
But it happens before loading of the shell as it is happening despite using LiteStep or other shells!

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INTEL PIII550 MSI 6163
G400Mill 32MB SGRAM + RRG
SBlive
256 MB RAM CAS2
43GB HDD Space!(Actual 40GB) (13+30 Quantum drives)
Pioneer 104S DVD 10x CD 40x SLOT IN
SONY CRX100E 4/2/24 CDRW

[Brian R.]

It's possible what you're seeing is the registry back-up process.

[Brian R.]

It's possible what you're seeing is the registry back-up process.

[cjolley]

I have noticed that if my dsl modem is turned off I get the same pause.
In my computers case, I think it is waiting for it's ip assignment. If I turn the modem back on the OS takes off as soon as the dsl link light goes green.
I've also had this problem when I had a bad network cable.
It may just be waiting for it's DHCP server to get around to it. Try taking out your network stuff and see if that "fixes" it.
chuck

[Guyver]

If you have a network card installed, see if any of it's settings can be hard-set.

If you allow a network card to "auto-detect" it's environment, you're asking for long delays during your boot-up.

I shaved 30-40 seconds off my boot sequence by setting my card to TP, half-duplex, 100Mbit, etc... All-hard set, instead of auto-detection...

That's good if you are always in the same environment.

For lan parties, it's better to auto-detect, unless you use the same switch for the lan party as you do at home

Guyv

[Alegria]

Assigning a valid STATIC private IP address to a NIC significantly speeds up the boot process as there is no more looking for a DHCP server upon boot. This should always be considered for PCs not connected permanently to a network (e.g. LAN game computers) and all networked PCs WITHOUT a DHCP server in their environment.
Regards, Alegria

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