Win98 SE decided to take 20+ minutes to boot!

[robherc]

Hello;

I just got done putting together an Athlon 600MHz system with 128MB RAM, 8.4GB UDMA33 HDD, 2x2x6 EIDE CD-RW, LS-120 ARMD floppy, etc. I got win98SE installed fine & working fine. Then I did a preload of all their drivers for other hardware, and went into My Computer>Properties to turn DMA of for the LS-120 and the CD-RW. When I rebooted it decided to wait at the splash screen for 20 minutes in the middle of the boot process, and has been doing so ever since.

What I've tried:
Basically, the only things I've tried so far are rebooting the system (no help), shutting down & cold booting the system (still no help), and going back through My Computer>Properties to turn off DMA...but when I got there, I found it already disabled on both drives that I had tried to enable it on.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. [sig]<p>-Robherc<br><a href=mailto:robherc@netzero.net>robherc@netzero.net</a><br><a href= shared.freeservers.com/searchmaster.html>SearchMaster Interface...11-in-1</a><br>Wanting to learn Assembler; please e-mail me any tutorials or links for it that are useful to you [/sig]

 

[Alt255]

I assume the system boots properly in Safe Mode. You might try removing all of the new devices in Device Manager and rebooting to let Windows autodetect them.

You didn't mention any device conflicts so it's a little hard to pinpoint any specific issues. Check the CMOS to make sure the IRQs, etc are set up properly according to the hardware recommendations (sometimes it's helpful to disable the PNP OS feature, if it is available).

If nothing works, it's back to that painstaking trial & error method of removing everything and adding it back, one component at a time, to locate the problem. That dreadful Microsoft site has step-by-step instructions for doing this sort of troubleshooting but you know the drill.

P.S. Hi Rob! It's good to see you again.
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[Karl Blessing]

I'm just going to make a far fetched guess, and mention that in the BIOS, you may want to turn on the L1 and L2 cache, since CPUs have a tendency to slow down ALOT! when cache is disabled. [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href=

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