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P4P800-E Deluxe - Slower to boot Win2K Server
I've noticed that it is considerably slower to boot Win2K on my
P4P800-E Deluxe with Pentium 4 2.8 HT than in my other lower performance systems. It takes about 20 more seconds until the logon screen. My specs: *************** Asus P4P800-E Deluxe P4 HT 2.8 GHz (1 MB L2 cache) RAID disabled HT enabled (not officially supported on Win2K but works fine) 2x256 MB DDR 400 Samsung (Dual channel enabled) 80 GB ATA100 HD *************** Other System: Asus CUSL2-C P3 866 MHz No RAID / No HT 2x256 MB SDRAM 133 MHz 80 GB ATA100 HD Both installations of Win2K have very similar options enabled. With HT enabled, Win2K sees the system as dual processor. (Maybe this makes it slower to boot??) I know that higher specs isn't supposed to make Win2K boot much faster, but SLOWER?? Does anyone know what may be wrong?? |
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DNS and DHCP settings can do this.
If the server has a DHCP address then if no DHCP server is available when starting, it will wait to time out. If DNS is wrong, then IP can go fishing for servers and go the long route until it too times out. So verify the IP configuration. Indexing server can have an impact. I always have this disabled. The CUSL2 machine is not such a slow machine really - we have a dual 866 and it is quick and solid. The P4P800 should still be faster. HT should have little impact - usually always more beneficial than detrimental. Is there anything of note in your system or application event logs on the slow system? - Tim "Jessica Loriena" wrote in message om... I've noticed that it is considerably slower to boot Win2K on my P4P800-E Deluxe with Pentium 4 2.8 HT than in my other lower performance systems. It takes about 20 more seconds until the logon screen. My specs: *************** Asus P4P800-E Deluxe P4 HT 2.8 GHz (1 MB L2 cache) RAID disabled HT enabled (not officially supported on Win2K but works fine) 2x256 MB DDR 400 Samsung (Dual channel enabled) 80 GB ATA100 HD *************** Other System: Asus CUSL2-C P3 866 MHz No RAID / No HT 2x256 MB SDRAM 133 MHz 80 GB ATA100 HD Both installations of Win2K have very similar options enabled. With HT enabled, Win2K sees the system as dual processor. (Maybe this makes it slower to boot??) I know that higher specs isn't supposed to make Win2K boot much faster, but SLOWER?? Does anyone know what may be wrong?? |
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Thanks for your reply!
I have 2 net cards and I'll check if DHCP is enabled in either one of them. I don't think there's a problem with DNS, but I'll check that too. By the way, I'd like to mention that it only takes longer to BOOT on P4P800. Other than that it's quite fast (faster than my CUSL2 system). As for event logs, I don't see any performance issues during the boot. I'll post back.. "Tim" wrote in message ... DNS and DHCP settings can do this. If the server has a DHCP address then if no DHCP server is available when starting, it will wait to time out. If DNS is wrong, then IP can go fishing for servers and go the long route until it too times out. So verify the IP configuration. Indexing server can have an impact. I always have this disabled. The CUSL2 machine is not such a slow machine really - we have a dual 866 and it is quick and solid. The P4P800 should still be faster. HT should have little impact - usually always more beneficial than detrimental. Is there anything of note in your system or application event logs on the slow system? - Tim |
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You might also have a raid controller or two configured that you are not
using. EG If the Intel SATA RAID is configured and enabled in the bios and you not using it, this will add a few seconds. Disable those devices you are not using and not going to use - in the bios. - Tim "Jessica Loriena" wrote in message om... Thanks for your reply! I have 2 net cards and I'll check if DHCP is enabled in either one of them. I don't think there's a problem with DNS, but I'll check that too. By the way, I'd like to mention that it only takes longer to BOOT on P4P800. Other than that it's quite fast (faster than my CUSL2 system). As for event logs, I don't see any performance issues during the boot. I'll post back.. "Tim" wrote in message ... DNS and DHCP settings can do this. If the server has a DHCP address then if no DHCP server is available when starting, it will wait to time out. If DNS is wrong, then IP can go fishing for servers and go the long route until it too times out. So verify the IP configuration. Indexing server can have an impact. I always have this disabled. The CUSL2 machine is not such a slow machine really - we have a dual 866 and it is quick and solid. The P4P800 should still be faster. HT should have little impact - usually always more beneficial than detrimental. Is there anything of note in your system or application event logs on the slow system? - Tim |
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Jess,
I hve the exact same setup and owned both the CUSL2-C and P4P800SE. There's a trick I read from a mag on the slow boots. Don't ever play around with DNS and DHCP settings unless you know what you're doing, leave them at default. I don't know anything about DHCP btw. What I do is give every NIC an IP even if you don't have to. In my case, the onboard Marvell 10/100. My Realtek 8139 is at 192.168.0.1 (as gateway) for Sygate proxy for my roommate sharing connection. My Marvell is at 10.0.0.15 to plug into my DSL modem. Which I don't have to give it. I find that if I don't specifiy an IP for the NIC that goes to the DSL modem, boot gets slow. Tim's reasoning on slow boot is correct though. -bron "Jessica Loriena" ??? om ???... Thanks for your reply! I have 2 net cards and I'll check if DHCP is enabled in either one of them. I don't think there's a problem with DNS, but I'll check that too. By the way, I'd like to mention that it only takes longer to BOOT on P4P800. Other than that it's quite fast (faster than my CUSL2 system). As for event logs, I don't see any performance issues during the boot. I'll post back.. "Tim" wrote in message ... DNS and DHCP settings can do this. If the server has a DHCP address then if no DHCP server is available when starting, it will wait to time out. If DNS is wrong, then IP can go fishing for servers and go the long route until it too times out. So verify the IP configuration. Indexing server can have an impact. I always have this disabled. The CUSL2 machine is not such a slow machine really - we have a dual 866 and it is quick and solid. The P4P800 should still be faster. HT should have little impact - usually always more beneficial than detrimental. Is there anything of note in your system or application event logs on the slow system? - Tim |
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