Re: DHCP causing start lag XP?

'mooky' posted, well, a lot of messages - the last being:
| sorry to post again so fast, but checked event viewer and got this
| AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address
| (0xcfc), which lies in the 0xcf8 - 0xcff protected address range. This
| could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor
| for technical assistance.
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Well, did you follow the directions?
It is important to take an organized approach to solving computer related
problems. Measure twice, cut once.

Phil Weldon

"mooky" <mooky9669@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1184455390.522245.124320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| On Jul 14, 6:21 pm, mooky <mooky9...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > On Jul 14, 6:18 pm, mooky <mooky9...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >
| >
| >
| > > On Jul 14, 5:54 pm, mooky <mooky9...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >
| > > > I recently had trouble with my cable internet and replaced my
| > > > modem...then the network operations had to force my modem to work
| > > > probably because of some update...anyway, since then, my XP startup
| > > > has been lagging and I read online it's probably due to connecting
to
| > > > the network using DHCP...how can I correct this? I even did the
| > > > spyware removal and disabled startup items I didn't need, etc. Hope
| > > > someone can help me out here..shutdown is great as before, but
startup
| > > > lags when icons appear and then can't do anything for over a min.
| >
| > > another thing that I have just noticed is that I ear a popping sound
| > > after XP loads..it's the sound you hear when say a pop up balloon
| > > would appear, but I have the balloon tips disabled...maybe whatever
| > > that sound means, might have something to do with my start lag..when
| > > it happes the taskbar pops up as well and then I move off of it then
| > > it goes back to autohide.
| >
| > just did a sound check in my audio and sound devices...the popping
| > balloon sound was linked to system notification servies. I don't see
| > any error pop up though...gonna google some more and hope that someone
| > can help me out.
|
| sorry to post again so fast, but checked event viewer and got this
| AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address
| (0xcfc), which lies in the 0xcf8 - 0xcff protected address range. This
| could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor
| for technical assistance.
|


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