long delay in connecting to the network

[me972]

Hi,
I have vista ultimate and ever since I updated my broadcom driver (ndis 6.0)
via windows update at one point i have this strange delay of about 10 seconds
after i login and every startup program loads. then and only then does the
network connection come up. I even changed from DHCP to static IP thinking
its a dhcp problem but it isn't the RED X on the network connection icon on
the task bar remains until everything finishes loading....

why is this happening?
can I have the network driver load first even before user logon? (if i dont
login to fast after reset and boot and leave the pc for 20 more seconds then
the network does come up at the backround but I usually don't like to wait
with no reason..)

thanks fot any help.
Me972

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

Any error in the event viewer?

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[me972]

Hi,
the only errors I found in the even viewer after boot are these:

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
mfetdik
NVStrap

I dont know if they have any thing to do with this issue.. but I'd love to
get rid of them...(there was a third one last week (atitool.sys) which I
managed to fix via regedit.. but these two I'm now sure about since one is
Nvidia and I dont want to remove some important part of my display drivers..
(8800GTS)

thanks for any help given.
me972