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by garddave Mar 13, 2002 last reply Mar 21, 2002

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I recently added an ethernet card and my pc allbut stopped. It takes a long time to get through the boot sequence, and if that isn't bad enough when the desktop loads you can make a pot of coffee and two ham and cheese sandwiches.

the system is aDFI motherboard an evergreen pII upgrade cpu with 64m sdram and an updated phoenix bios vintage 2000.

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by dmiles Mar 13, 2002

Check what programs youhave loading at startup,with the min. 64m memory may be using resources that is causing the computer to slow down.

With other programs that you have running in the background such as anti-virus,screen savers,and any graphics software will hog up memory

Run defrag and see if the system will improve,also consider upgrading the memory at least to 128m

by garddave Mar 21, 2002

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by bohicam1 Mar 13, 2002

Try uninstalling the NIC card drivers and pulling out the card then rebooting. Chances are it is the culprit here. If your puter boots up fine, try reinstalling again. If it goes back to being slow I would first suspect that the NIC is bad before I would blame a corrupt/wrong driver.
Good luck!

Mike