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Wired adapter issue
Hi all,
I have asked this issue before but as I was totally barking up the wrong tree thought it best to start again fresh. Basically I am seeing a strange boot delay of about 10-15 seconds when using ethernet on my laptop 24 hours after previous shutdown. So I will boot up, reach the login screen, tap in password and then the 'welcome to windows' message remains onscreen for about 10 - 15 secs before continuing to the desktop. If I use wifi instead, then I see no delay, straight into desktop. It only happens with the ethernet adapter. The other thing that makes this delay weird is if completely shutdown the laptop and boot up again before 24 hours have elapsed then I will see no delay. It just happens if I don't reboot within a day of last use. Once it is up and running I have zero problems. But this delay is irritating.
I have unmapped all drives, switched ethernet cables (3 times), changed the static IP and also set to obtain automatically, updated the atheros driver all without success. I cannot understand what windows is doing/waiting for in these 10 - 15 secs. I look at the boot time in the event viewer and I see no 101 events. Just a 100 event showing the times which all look ok apart from being 10-15 secs longer when this happens.
I thought the router could be the issue but have eliminated that because it works fine with other devices and plus it must be doing things correctly anyway as the wifi my laptop takes comes from an access point rather than the main router - so the ethernet that feeds the access point's wifi signal is working great and has no delay. So Windows 7 must be the culprit.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Wayne