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In article <eloS2.3727$14.1175@wards>, Cliff Tinson <cliff@tinson.free-
online.co.uk> writes:

>The server suffers 2 pauses of around 8 and 4 seconds when loading windows.
>It
>occurs after the logo clears and displays the underlying dos messages from
>autoexec.bat. There is a long 8 second pause with no disk activity followed
>by a short
>burst (1 second) of disk activity followed by another 4 seconds of disk
>inactivity. Shortly after the disk bursts back into life the windows
>background is displayed and services are loaded.
>
>There are no errors in network.log or bootlog.txt.
>
>When I've suffered this problem in the past, it has been because I've had 3
>network protocols loaded and reducing it to just TCP/IP and IPX/SPX cured
>it. I  removed the lan protocols and rebooted with no effect. I removed the
>dialup adaptor protocol, and also no affect.

Any odd hardware attached?  The internal HP Colorado T3000 tape drive on
my machine produces a similar effect, looks like Windoze starts to
initialize it then just takes a nap until the drive reports back instead
of getting on with something else while it's waiting.

-- 
Mike Clarke