Direct cable connection causes network connection to be disrupted

Brandon

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7th Oct 2003

I have performed a direct cable connection between my
laptop that has windows 98 loaded and my desktop with
windows XP, everytime I enable the direct connection
between the two pc's my network connection is
disconnected, why is this ? and is there a way to fix it?

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