BIG delay for LAN to start . . .

khushy · 13 Apr 2009 at 11:16

all of sudden the LAN on my PC takes about 40 seconds to start when windows commences AND I am having shut down problems.

They (these tow problems) started all at the same time.

Have had this problem before - reinstalled windows (which I dont really want to do again) which cured the problem - what could it be?

khushy

ASUS Max Ext
P6850 extreme
4Gb DDR3 RAM
Windows XP Pro

khushy · 13 Apr 2009 at 22:23

brainchylde said:
Try giving yourself a static IP. DHCP can cause this sort of delay.

Hi

Already have a staic IP and it the LAN that actually doesnt start (the little icon doesnt appear for about 40 seconds in the task bar)

hmmmmmmmmm

khushy

khushy · 14 Apr 2009 at 07:42

Hefner said:
Have you got the latest driver for the NIC?

yes I believe so - have just checked again!

But why would it go from working correctly - starts at start up - to being delayed by about 40 seconds for no apparrant reason.

PS - have tried the reg mods as suggested above - no difference!

Khushy

khushy · 14 Apr 2009 at 13:42

cheers guys

thanks for the info - think I have sussed it - its a HP Device Discovery process thats making it all HANG!

Anyway - how do I permanently delete the HP files as they are not in the add/remove programs folder anymore.

Can I properly alter the MSCONFIG file?

When I disable this HP service - windows loads - LAN on - no worries apart from all the error messages.

Khushy