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Network card (adapter) freezes Win XP

Aug 28, 2006 11:08AM PDT

HELP !!!

My computer starts... perfectly !!!
It shutdowns... fast !!!
All in all... it's runing (loading smoooothly)

****************** BUT *********************

BUT in the begining, when you click on Start menu and ''connect to'' (so you can use internet)... it FREEZES the START menu and all Sad

I mean... literally for 3 or 5 mins.

Why? when i had modem, it never happened !!!

but after that intial freezing thing... everything is okay... internet works fine.. and all!!!

Help!!!
Gsoul2soul

PS: by the way... mu Avast Antivirus also takes like... sometime to load... i mean usually it won't, now a days it does!!!

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