PC Not Starting

[Pooky]

Here's what happened:

I disabled my LAN adaptor, and then immediately afterwards my PC just went extremely slowly. Took about 3 minutes to open task manager. I restarted and now it just gets stuck on the windows loading screen, or goes from that to a black screen and then no further. The hard drive light thingy on the front is pretty much constantly on though.

Could disabling the LAN adaptor have cause this?

 

[Pooky]

Okay I have left it trying to start for 10 minutes now and it has got to the start screen. So it's not completely not able to start, it is just excessively slow.

 

[Pooky]

Okay, so it started up and I managed to enable the card again and as soon as I did that the PC went fast again.

Now my question is why on earth would disabling the network card cause the PC to run incredibly slow?

 

[soulravanger]

It could just be your network card is faulty

 

[Jimmy-Z]

I hope this is not the problem. LOL :

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/5685186_700b.jpg

 

[Happy Camper]

I get this with one of our network printers at times, pulling out the cable (if wired) before starting up fixes it :erm:

Perhaps try and reinstall the card driver.

 

[sajunky]

Built in mobo LAN? Remove drivers, restart and go to the BIOS. Disable LAN in BIOS. Always better to disable in BIOS. It helps internal power management.

 

[Rickster]

Any reason why you disabled your LAN adapter?

 

[Pooky]

Any reason why you disabled your LAN adapter?

Ermmm... I was "activating" a program online.

 

[Rickster]

Ermmm... I was "activating" a program online.

Ohhhh I see (ARRRRG

)

Next time try block via firewall or just turn off your router.

 

[Pooky]

Ohhhh I see (ARRRRG

)

Next time try block via firewall or just turn off your router.

Yeah I just unplugged the LAN cable.