When booting the laptop it hangs at Preparing Network Connections for about a 2 minutes before proceeding to Applying Computer Connections (which takes 30 seconds) then to the logon screen.
Hello Everyone:
I have a user that is running Windows XP Pro on Dell D510 laptop and when booting the laptop it hangs at Preparing Network Connections for about a 2 minutes before proceeding to Applying Computer Connections (which takes 30 seconds) then to the logon screen. I have done a lot of searches and followed several suggestions but still haven't found and answer why it is taking from 2 to 3 minutes to get to the logon screen. Any suggestions or thoughts are appreciated on how to solve this problem. I have three companies with 250 users and I can bet that others are having the same problem--so I need to find a solution. Any suggestions?
Thanks for the help.
I have a user that is running Windows XP Pro on Dell D510 laptop and when booting the laptop it hangs at Preparing Network Connections for about a 2 minutes before proceeding to Applying Computer Connections (which takes 30 seconds) then to the logon screen. I have done a lot of searches and followed several suggestions but still haven't found and answer why it is taking from 2 to 3 minutes to get to the logon screen. Any suggestions or thoughts are appreciated on how to solve this problem. I have three companies with 250 users and I can bet that others are having the same problem--so I need to find a solution. Any suggestions?
Thanks for the help.
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Hello David:
Some of the things I have tried:
Flushing DNS and registerdns
Unjoin laptop and rejoin laptop to domain
Used static DNS ip addresses instead of DHCP
When to Group Policy on the local machine and set the wait on netwok to disabled
Some of the things I have tried:
Flushing DNS and registerdns
Unjoin laptop and rejoin laptop to domain
Used static DNS ip addresses instead of DHCP
When to Group Policy on the local machine and set the wait on netwok to disabled
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Hello Thomas:
I have ordered an additonal 1gig of memory for the unit and it should be here Monday--so maybe that will solve the problem.
I have ordered an additonal 1gig of memory for the unit and it should be here Monday--so maybe that will solve the problem.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that you're using an internal wireless card?
I've see this on a couple of laptops. Try disabling the wireless connection through the control panel (not the keyboard shortcut) before shutting down then see if it boots up quickly.
I haven't been able to find a solution but as I'm thinking about it now I haven't tried using Windows Zero Conf., just the dell utility. I'll try it tomorrow at work and let you know.
I've see this on a couple of laptops. Try disabling the wireless connection through the control panel (not the keyboard shortcut) before shutting down then see if it boots up quickly.
I haven't been able to find a solution but as I'm thinking about it now I haven't tried using Windows Zero Conf., just the dell utility. I'll try it tomorrow at work and let you know.
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Hello My Username:
Yes, the laptops have a wireless card. I will look at disabling the wireless. I think it was disable to begin with but I will double check and try the suggestion. I won't be back to work until tomorrow so I will let you know then.
Thank you
Yes, the laptops have a wireless card. I will look at disabling the wireless. I think it was disable to begin with but I will double check and try the suggestion. I won't be back to work until tomorrow so I will let you know then.
Thank you
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Hello Eveyone:
Well..the problem is solved. The user had a bad ram chip. Once I installed the new ram the unit flys into the login screen with no delays. I need to start doing troubleshooting at the hardware level along with looking at software end. I appreciate the efforts and will spread out the points to everyone who had great suggestions and in other circumstances most likely would solve the issue.
Well..the problem is solved. The user had a bad ram chip. Once I installed the new ram the unit flys into the login screen with no delays. I need to start doing troubleshooting at the hardware level along with looking at software end. I appreciate the efforts and will spread out the points to everyone who had great suggestions and in other circumstances most likely would solve the issue.
Well thanks for the question because it got me thinking about it so that I actually was able to solve my problem!
Cheers!
Cheers!
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Yes, I have tried that too--but still the same result. Thanks for the suggestion.