Other Domain PC is taking too long to boot up

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  1. zillah

    zillah What's a Dremel?

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    Hi

    I have got an active directory environment win2003 server with 10 client PCs windows XP Profe

    Client PCs are connected through two small switches to a SnapGear Sg300 router then the router s is connected to ADSL modem.

    One PC (out of 10 only this one ,,,,the rest nine no problem) is taking about 7 minutes to boot ,,,,,please see the snap shot below for its behavior :

    http://i47.tinypic.com/2nlbupz.jpg

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    This is what have been written in the screen above
    Code:
    Broadcom UND1 PXE-2.1 v8.2.5
    Copyright  ( c )  2000-2005 Broadcom Corporation
    Copyright  ( c ) 1992-2000 Intel Corporation
    All right reserved.
    CLIENT MAC ADDE : 00 13 72 21 83 52  GUID : 44454C4C 4200 104C 8031 C2C04F4C3153
    DHCP….
    
    Recently I formatted this PC and installed fresh copy if windows XP with all updates still same problem is going on.

    What troubleshoot should I carry out to find out where is the problem ?

    Thanks
     
  2. Xen0phobiak

    Xen0phobiak SMEGHEADS!

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    Change the boot order in the BIOS setup so that the HDD comes before the network boot.
     
  3. zillah

    zillah What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks for this tip I will check that and let you know
     

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