WIN98SE Slow Boot

[omdiaz]

I've recently upgraded the motherboard in my PC and installed WIN98SE. The computer is taking too much time to boot. What may be the cause?

[3fingersalute]

Do you have a NIC? If so 98 default drivers for some cards cause VERY slow boots.

Also, go into system in the control panel, click on performance, file system and floppy disk, and disbale search for new floppy drives each time your computer starts.

Hope this helps

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[Jvaguy]

and of course disable all the startup stuff in the startup menu (like office and realplayer and more) and make sure you defrag

[AlienDyne]

and make sure there are no IRQ conflicts among devices.

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