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[User58]

Hello to all and to all a pleasant day. I am taking this to the resident
experts in desparation and frustration. All seem clueless on this, the
panel is stumped. Hopefully there is someone who isn't This is a last
resort. :-0
When I boot up my machine and attempt to connect via PPPoE,
it is not always immediatly available to me. I will get the dialogue box
saying "Connecting through WAN Miniport PPPoE" This will linger
indefenitely. I alternately will continue to try to connect/cancel untill I
get past this and finally get to the "verify username and password" woindow.
My network connections show the following:

1394 NET Adaptor, Local Area Connection 2 (which is my NIC) and the icon for
SBC which is a PPPoE connection. All of these are using TCPIP only. I was
told to get rid of everything else and it did help a bit at first but the
problem still appears occasionally.
Another problem, which I am unsure if it is related is when starting Outlook
Express 6.0 2800 1123 the system will occasionally freeze when attempted too
soon after connection to internet is up. I may have too much info here but
too much is better than not enough.

System info: Windows XP Pro (5.1.2600 SP1 Retail)

CPU: Athlon 2600+ (333 FSB)
MOBO: A7V333
RAM: 512M PC 2100 333MHz Crucial
HD: Maxtor Plus 9 7200 RPM 80G
Graphics: ATI 9800 Pro 128MB
Sound: Audigy2
DX version: 9.0
Award BIOS: 6.0 (revision 1016 Beta 001)


Some BIOS settings just in case:

CPU speed: 2083 MHz
CPU Freq Multiple: 12.5x
CPU/PCI Freq (MHz) 166/33
CPU Vcore Setting 1.650v

Is there some setting I should have in the CPU/Memory Freq Ratio that should
be set manually?


Should I be looking at my SDRAM settings also?


Thanks in advance. The future of the Western World is in your hands...