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2000 boot very slow with no net cable

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by stephen.owen

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I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100 with Win2000 and a 3com fe575 10/100 PC Card. If I boot without the net cable inserted, Win2000 stalls for about 5min during the boot process. If I insert the cable during this time, the PC continues booting. Only seems to happen with this card, yet all our laptops use the same config. I have tore the OS apart trying to figure it out.

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by joe

It seems to me that the PC is trying to boot from Network first. Did you check the boot sequence in the BIOS?

by stephen.owen

This happens long after the boot sequence. It hangs at about 50-60% of the Windows2000 splash screen. As soon as I insert the net cable...The blue bar completes and the Logon Screen appears. Without the cable, it will sit for over 5 minutes before completing the splash screen progress bar.

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