I have an R51 (1830-DD2) that appears to have something strange happening when booting. It has XP Pro, and the normal black Windows XP logo (after the system POSTs) appears briefly, then it displays the small startup box. At "Preparing Network Connections," the system seems to take forever to get through this step (it's happened since the very first time I powered it on). It stays on "Preparing Network Connections" for a while, then finally continues with loading Windows, which only takes another 2-3 seconds before I'm at the logon screen. Logging onto Windows is fine, it's just the pause during "Preparing Network Connections." I installed Microsoft Bootvis to see if I could uncover anything specific, and found that there is exactly a 120 second period of time on the "Driver Delay" graph where "network delay" is showing. Here's a screenshot of Bootvis:
The computer is on a domain, and thus I can't make too many specific changes to network settings, but I hope someone here can give me some insight as to what I can do about this network delay. I've read some other posts here on the forum but the all boot delays I saw were after the logon prompt - this one is before the XP logon prompt, at "Preparing Network Connections"...but I am running Access Connections (v 3.70) for wireless connections. Thanks for any input.
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