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by mra2

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I have Windows 98 SE on my Athalon XP 1800. When you boot up the Windows splash screen appears for about 10 seconds. Then the screen goes black and white and you see the 2 commands in autoexec.bat executing.

Then the computer goes to sleep for about 2 minutes. When it "Wakes up" Windows 98 se loads and works well.

Another Tech Republic User told me I had a Driver problem.

I have ONLY the following drivers loading. When I delete any of these my WINPOET (DSL) connection will not connect. ANY IDEAS???? I've already tried reloading WinPoet and Zone Alarm. It had NO EFFECT!

Drivers:
NDIS.vxd
NDIS2SUP.vxd
VSDATA95.vxd (Belongs to Zone Alarm)

Thanks,
Alan
MRA2@mindspring.com

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by daz'n'ash

go to run and then type in msconfig, disable all programs that don't need to start up with the computer when you boot up. You can launch these programs (anti virus, zone alarm etc..) after windows has finished booting.

by mra2

Got rid of TCP/IP attached to my On Board LAN Card. Windows 98 SE loading time went from 3.5 minutes to just under 1 minute........

by richard_barsby

Hi I guess you are connected to a network of some kind via tci/ip and the network settings are to automatically get ip number the pause maybe is it trying to look for a suitable number if you can assign an ip address this should reduce this delay. If you are not connected to a network disable the network card in my computer/properties/device manager.

Hope this helps

Rich

by mra2

Got rid of TCP/IP attached to my On Board LAN Card. Windows 98 SE loading time went from 3.5 minutes to just under 1 minute........ Thanks

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