Installed Realtek, now have boot problem

Installed the Realtek NIC on my FIC 503+. At first win98SE would not load.
Thought maybe it was due to IRQ assignment. It looked as if many devices
were assigned to 03. Changed the BIOs and it picked up the NIC from 03 to
10 and the video from 03 to 09.

Now when I attempt to boot win98SE, it takes minutes, not seconds to load.

I have not tried the cable modem with the NIC yet because I want to try and
solve this slow boot problem first.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks

Toots

Um your tcp/ip stack is looking for a dhcp server so it can get an IP
assigned, just a guess.

Is your NIC connected to anything? Hook it up to the cablemodem, the
sooner it gets an IP assigned (the cablemodem acts as a dhcp server)
the faster the boot, perhaps.

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| Installed the Realtek NIC on my FIC 503+. At first win98SE would not
load.
| Thought maybe it was due to IRQ assignment. It looked as if many
devices
| were assigned to 03. Changed the BIOs and it picked up the NIC from
03 to
| 10 and the video from 03 to 09.
|
| Now when I attempt to boot win98SE, it takes minutes, not seconds to
load.
|
| I have not tried the cable modem with the NIC yet because I want to
try and
| solve this slow boot problem first.
|
| Any suggestions will be appreciated.
|
| Thanks
|
| Toots
|
|