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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Sunday, October 2, 2005 at 10:38 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by AlphaOmega
(1 messages posted)
The most probable explanation is that your network connection to your ADSL modem
does not specify the IP to connect to. Every time you boot up, your computer tries
to establish the connection, and queries the modem for the IP address.
To solve this problem you can specify the IP address manually.
Right-click 'My Computer' and click 'Manage'. In the left pane, expand the 'Event
Viewer' and click 'System'. In the right pane, scroll down until you see a warning
(yellow with exclamation) whose source is 'Dhcp'. Double click it and you will see
the event description as:
"Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with
network address XXXXXXXXXXXX. The IP address being used is ###.###.##.##."
The hashes denote your modem's IP. Copy it somewhere.
In Control Panel, open 'Network Connection', right-click your LAN connection and
select properties. Click 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)' and click 'Properties'. Select
the 'Use the following IP address:' option and enter the IP you had copied earlier
in the 'IP address' field. Enter the same in the 'Preferred DNS server:'. Click 'OK'
and reboot.
I had the exact same problem as you do, and doing this solved it.
Hope it helps
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 4:36 am, zacinjapan wrote:
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>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:
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>When I bootup my system, it hangs for about 2 minutes while it 'searches for network
>connections.' This happens when I bootup at home, but not when I am at work on
my
>work's network.
>
>I am running Win2000 on my laptop. I run the computer at home as a standalone,
and
>take it to work and connect to the network through a 10/100 LAN card using the cabling
>that looks very similar to telephone cable.
>
>At home, I have ADSL and connect to that in the same way that I connect to the network
>- through the LAN card with phone-type cable.
>
>I never had this problem until I got ADSL.
>
>Can anyone offer a solution to this problem?
>
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