Startup Long Pause at Welcome Screen

[Guest]

When I boot Windows, a long pause of several minutes occurs at the Welcome
screen. I have isolated the problem to the ethernet connection from the
computer to my router. When I pull the ethernet cable at bootup, the system
boots immediately to the desktop without any pauses. When I reconnect the
cable, the router reestablishes the connection to the internet and I am on my
way. I have a PPPoe connection to Bellsouth DSL that connects to a fixed IP
address.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

 

[Black Baptist]

=?Utf-8?B?SG9ic3Rlcg==?= rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

When I boot Windows, a long pause of several minutes occurs at the
Welcome screen. I have isolated the problem to the ethernet connection
from the computer to my router. When I pull the ethernet cable at
bootup, the system boots immediately to the desktop without any pauses.
When I reconnect the cable, the router reestablishes the connection to
the internet and I am on my way. I have a PPPoe connection to Bellsouth
DSL that connects to a fixed IP address.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

Assign an IP and subnet mask to local area connection tcp/ip properties.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Baptist. I figured it out about two weeks ago. Problem solved.