PXE BIOS before Win98 Starts

I had to replace a PC with an onboard SIS Ethernet socket with a Realtek
Ethernet PCI card. Now every time the PC starts after I have to wait for
about a minute or so before windows 98SE screen comes on whilst I get a
messege on a black screen with white writing about PXE BIOS and Mac Address
and DHCP and a spinning line/cursor before windows 98 starts and the desktop
shows. I cant find anything in Autoexec.Bat or Config.sys that is
initialising it. Do you now how I can automatically get past this so the
computer starts up quicker and gets to the desktop quicker?

The Broadband Modem is an Zyxel USB/Ethernet ADSL modem and the mainboard is
an ECS 661FX. I have disabled onboard LAN and disabled boot from LAN in the
PC's BIOS.

Answers in plain english please cause I am not that up on network problems!
:-)

Many thanks, Grassy Arse!

Andy.




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On 23/07/2006 Andy wrote:

>Answers in plain english please cause I am not that up on network problems!


I get 2 of these, 1 for each NIC :-)

It's the BIOS in the NIC that does it, not autoexec.bat or config.sys.
Does it include something like 'Press Ctrl + x' to configure? If so you
can do that and turn it off.

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"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>I had to replace a PC with an onboard SIS Ethernet socket with a Realtek
> Ethernet PCI card. Now every time the PC starts after I have to wait for
> about a minute or so before windows 98SE screen comes on whilst I get a
> messege on a black screen with white writing about PXE BIOS and Mac
> Address
> and DHCP and a spinning line/cursor before windows 98 starts and the
> desktop
> shows. I cant find anything in Autoexec.Bat or Config.sys that is
> initialising it. Do you now how I can automatically get past this so the
> computer starts up quicker and gets to the desktop quicker?
> The Broadband Modem is an Zyxel USB/Ethernet ADSL modem and the mainboard
> is
> an ECS 661FX. I have disabled onboard LAN and disabled boot from LAN in
> the
> PC's BIOS.

Your network card appears to be PXE capable with a PXE BIOS installed. PXE
stands for Pre-Boot Execution Environment and basically allows for diskless
workstations where the workstation (PC) boots from a server over the
network. So what appears to be happening is that during the boot process,
the NIC BIOS is taking control and is trying to contact a network server &
waiting for a response. (BTW, this is normal during a boot process where
the main PC BIOS checks to see if any other BIOS is installed and hands over
control to it so it can initialise it's hardware etc.).

You didn't say what the model number of the NIC is? You might want to
check it's documentation to see if there is a way of disabling the network
boot although people generally buy these type of cards specifically for this
feature. Can you disable/remove the PXE BIOS ROM?

It might be preferable to get a bog standard network card, they are very
cheap now.

Thanks for the replies Jeff n' James. I am going to try your suggestions
next time I restart the computer and will post back the results.

Cheers,

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"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:44c2a702$0$20515$(E-Mail Removed).. .
> I had to replace a PC with an onboard SIS Ethernet socket with a Realtek
> Ethernet PCI card. Now every time the PC starts after I have to wait for
> about a minute or so before windows 98SE screen comes on whilst I get a
> messege on a black screen with white writing about PXE BIOS and Mac
Address
> and DHCP and a spinning line/cursor before windows 98 starts and the
desktop
> shows. I cant find anything in Autoexec.Bat or Config.sys that is
> initialising it. Do you now how I can automatically get past this so the
> computer starts up quicker and gets to the desktop quicker?
>
> The Broadband Modem is an Zyxel USB/Ethernet ADSL modem and the mainboard
is
> an ECS 661FX. I have disabled onboard LAN and disabled boot from LAN in
the
> PC's BIOS.
>
> Answers in plain english please cause I am not that up on network
problems!
> :-)
>
> Many thanks, Grassy Arse!
>
> Andy.
>
>
>
>
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>



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