NIC takes a long time to initialize when booting

[ZoSo 0]

Upon doing a clean install of Win2K Pro, it takes the NIC forever to "load" (approx. 1 minute).

I get this message in the Event Viewer everytime I boot:

 

Dhcp Warning

Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with network address 00207800F6F8. The IP address being used is 169.254.81.229.

 

Strange thing is, last time I did a fresh install I never had this problem. None of the hardware has been changed or moved.

 

It's a LinkSys LNE100TX NIC, latest drivers used with both installations.

 

Thanks,

[FadedTimes 0]

is it auto detecting it's speed? Or is it set to 10M or 100M p/s?

My old 3com use to do that when I had it set to auto detect speed. Even worse when I had an auto sensing hub, would take like 5min sometimes to work.

[ZoSo 0]

Yep, it's on auto sensing, but it was like that before and never did it.

[peterro 0]

Use an static IP instead! U should get rid of the error message, and speed up the startup!

[ZoSo 0]

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Use an static IP instead! U should get rid of the error message, and speed up the startup!

That did it!
Thanks,