A7N8X-E Slow to Establish Network Connection

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I have a system that works fine except for one thing...
It boots normally, but when the desktop is displayed the system pauses for a
minute or more before establishing connections to the network and USB
devices. During this period there is some, but not much, disk activity. I
can tell when the pause is over by the sound of my USB scanner doing its
calibration thing. My network connection is via ethernet nic, not USB. The
event viewer mentions problems with Perfnet, but I haven't found the
software that's making that call. Would Perfnet cause such a delay?

It wasn't always like this. I suspect some software I've loaded in the past
is causing the problem, but I haven't been able to figure out which one.
Any suggestions on how to figure out what is going on? I'm not interested
in a clean reinstall of XP.

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
640 RAM
IDE 0 2x80 gig hard drives
IDE 1 CDRW and DVDRW
Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Marc
 
Have you turned off power management or changed something there? or in
the bios?
Have you a hardware monitor running at startup e.g. memory usage?
Anti virus 'system files' scan at boot?
 
Marc said:
I have a system that works fine except for one thing...
It boots normally, but when the desktop is displayed the system pauses for a
minute or more before establishing connections to the network and USB
devices. During this period there is some, but not much, disk activity. I
can tell when the pause is over by the sound of my USB scanner doing its
calibration thing. My network connection is via ethernet nic, not USB. The
event viewer mentions problems with Perfnet,
Click to expand...

What does it say in this 'mention'?
but I haven't found the
software that's making that call. Would Perfnet cause such a delay?
Click to expand...

Perfnet is the network performance counter.
It wasn't always like this. I suspect some software I've loaded in the past
is causing the problem,
Click to expand...

Like what software?
but I haven't been able to figure out which one.
Any suggestions on how to figure out what is going on? I'm not interested
in a clean reinstall of XP.

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
640 RAM
IDE 0 2x80 gig hard drives
IDE 1 CDRW and DVDRW
Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Click to expand...

Since you are on SP2 is makes me wonder if you've got something blocked,
with the SP2 firewall, that's trying to gain access during bootup.
 
I have a system that works fine except for one thing...
It boots normally, but when the desktop is displayed the system pauses for a
minute or more before establishing connections to the network and USB
devices.....snip
Click to expand...

Use the other nic. If that doesn't help, disable(not remove) the nic
your not using, in the Device Manager.
 
I've tried a few network monitors in the past. They've all been removed.
I removed my anti virus, temporarily.

I tried the other NIC with the original disabled. No change.
I disabled the Windows firewall and my router's firewall. No change.
I forgot to mention the router earlier. Other computers on this router do
not have this problem.

In Event Viewer I have this message:

"Event Type: Error
Event Source: PerfNet
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2004
Date: 11/19/2004
Time: 7:59:51 PM
User: N/A
Computer: UPSTAIRS
Description:
Unable to open the Server service. Server performance data will not be
returned. Error code returned is in data DWORD 0.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 34 00 00 c0 4..À "

This Perfnet message is in there twice, with the same time stamp.

I couldn't tell you what software (if any) triggered this problem. I am
constantly loading and unloading programs.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
If I figure it out I'll post the results.

Marc
 
I haven't changed any options for individual services. Using MSCONFIG I've
tried disabling groups such as everything on the Startup tab. No change.
 
disabling is or could be the cause....try enabling software until the
error goes away. Have you by any chance cut off, via the router, ICMP?
 
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