hey all..
so i just switched up to win2k from win98. i'll say that it looks prettier, but on the "starting up..." screen (the one with mostly white and "windows 2000 professional" on it, and the progress bar on the bottom), the progress bar fills about halfway, then sits for literally 2 minutes, then continues on and everything loads normally. is that supposed to happen??? it seems like an awfully long time!
i'm running a celeron 700 with 256mb sdram, a diamond stealth ii g460, and a teac 32x cd-rom. the only odd thing in this machine is that the master hd is a 20g western digital (udma2, one partition), and the slave drive is a 1.6g western digital (mode4, one partition), but that's not so strange, right? i've already tried taking the slave out altogether and the delay is still there. i have no idea what to try next. the ms support site says something about large hard drives causing a delay, and the fix is to add a second multi() line into the boot.ini file, but the tech doc was incredibly vague and i'm not sure what to do.
can anyone offer some help? thanks in advance!
-- michael~
so i just switched up to win2k from win98. i'll say that it looks prettier, but on the "starting up..." screen (the one with mostly white and "windows 2000 professional" on it, and the progress bar on the bottom), the progress bar fills about halfway, then sits for literally 2 minutes, then continues on and everything loads normally. is that supposed to happen??? it seems like an awfully long time!
i'm running a celeron 700 with 256mb sdram, a diamond stealth ii g460, and a teac 32x cd-rom. the only odd thing in this machine is that the master hd is a 20g western digital (udma2, one partition), and the slave drive is a 1.6g western digital (mode4, one partition), but that's not so strange, right? i've already tried taking the slave out altogether and the delay is still there. i have no idea what to try next. the ms support site says something about large hard drives causing a delay, and the fix is to add a second multi() line into the boot.ini file, but the tech doc was incredibly vague and i'm not sure what to do.
can anyone offer some help? thanks in advance!
-- michael~