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Why is my system so slow to boot? (Quote
from Paul's
unofficial FAQ ).
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- If you have a Network Interface Card (NIC) you probably selected
"Server Assigned IP Address" when configuring the network
card. This causes the card to search for a DHCP server to provide
you with an IP address. If possible, select an IP address manually
and this will prevent the card from looking the DHCP server. 192.168.x.x
and 10.0.0.x are IP addresses that are not used on the internet.
You could use any address you want, but if so, you can't put your
machine on the Internet since it is not registered with the Internet
domain authorities.
- Sometimes older monitors can cause the system to be slow to
boot - try a newer monitor (try before you buy!!). One user
reported a decrease in boot time of 90 seconds by installing a
new monitor!
- If you have a single disk installed on an IDE controller then
it may be that the issue is one of driver termination. If your
drive has both master and single drive settings, this can cause
a slow boot. The single drive setting terminates the second drive
signal; meaning that the controller realizes it is a single drive
much faster.
- Under Windows 2000, if you have no slave disk on the Primary
or Secondary controllers, then Windows will take time to detect
this. The solution is to go to Device Manager, select Properties
for Primary and Secondary IDE channels, set Device Type to None
on both and no more boot up delay.
- One user found that disabling "PCI #2 Access #1
Retry" in the Advanced Chipset Features section
of the BIOS significantly reduced his boot time by over one minute.
- If the above solutions do not help, try a logged boot to try
to isolate the troublesome stage in the boot process.
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