🚀 go-pugleaf

I have 3 machines, all with Win 98 on a small LAN with TCP/IP as the default
protocol, with fixed IP addresses.

One of the machines has an internal modem, and is considered to be the
server.

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.

I can't remember when the problem started, but I've recently changed the
motherboard, and processor and it was before that.

Full config is Gigabyte 5AX motherboard, Generic PCI modem, Matrox Mystique
220 4MB, Voodoo 2, Videologic PCI Sound Card, PCI Lan card. Lots of PCI
cards!

Any clues anybody?

Cliff