XP Home Drops LAN Connections

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Linux Man

I have one computer on my home network that is running XP Home. The other
computers use either XP Pro or W2K Pro. The XP Home computer drops its
network connection. To get it to work again, I have to reinstall the OS or
reinstall the nic.

Any ideas as to a work around? It appears the XP Home is a little flakey in
this regard.

TIA
 
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Bruce Chambers

Greetings --

The problem isn't with WinXP Home, per se, but it certainly sounds
like a flaky NIC od bad drivers for it.

Bruce Chambers

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Marc Reynolds [MSFT]

I agree - this sounds like either a NIC driver problem, a bad NIC, bad
network cable or a bad port on your hub/switch.

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dmac

why not run network wizard instead of reinstall OS?
I had a broadband (direcway satellite) driver causing the same issue.
disabling ICS before running network wizard helped a lot. Also had a bad
connection in the lan cable (had to ohm out the wall outlet to find it) that
caused return issues. the client could see the host, but host could not see
client for file transfer. ICS worked though, kind of odd I guess. fixed the
connection issue and no problems since.
hope that little story helped some...
 
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Peter Hutchison

I have one computer on my home network that is running XP Home. The other
computers use either XP Pro or W2K Pro. The XP Home computer drops its
network connection. To get it to work again, I have to reinstall the OS or
reinstall the nic.

Any ideas as to a work around? It appears the XP Home is a little flakey in
this regard.

What sort of Network card do you have? What is it connected to? I have
a LAN connection and it never drops connection. Have you updated the
drivers as well?

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 

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