XP problems

[Guest]

In XP i have been getting a weird problem where the local area connection
keeps on disconnecting and reconnecting . It started on one machine and the
others were ok now it has progressed to all of the machines(all running XP).
I thought virus but i have scanned them multiple times and no viruses are
found. It also started to affect my newest machine and recently my dvd drive
on the newest machine has stopped working correctly. I have updated drivers
and bios on the motherboard and dvd installed the new Nforce 4 package but
still no joy the DVD is recognised but it wont eject or when a disc is
inserted using a manual open it deos not recognise the disc . When the
computer reboots the drive light flashes but the system hangs if the eject
button is pushed the light dies and the computer proceeds to install ok. The
DVD is a cr40 shuttle( shows up on device manager as ATAPI DD DVD and the
motherboard is a A8n32 sli delux. AV is norton AV 7. All of the problems
seemed to start after a windows update ( set to auto)
So in short
1) Does the repeated network connection/ disconnection problem have a
solution.
2) Has the DVD gone to god or is it a problem with the motherboard bios
recognising the drive correctly.
Thanks for your Help

 

[Frank]

In XP i have been getting a weird problem where the local area
connection
keeps on disconnecting and reconnecting . It started on one machine
and the
others were ok now it has progressed to all of the machines(all
running XP).
I thought virus but i have scanned them multiple times and no viruses
are
found. It also started to affect my newest machine and recently my dvd
drive
on the newest machine has stopped working correctly. I have updated
drivers
and bios on the motherboard and dvd installed the new Nforce 4 package
but
still no joy the DVD is recognised but it wont eject or when a disc is
inserted using a manual open it deos not recognise the disc . When the
computer reboots the drive light flashes but the system hangs if the
eject
button is pushed the light dies and the computer proceeds to install
ok. The
DVD is a cr40 shuttle( shows up on device manager as ATAPI DD DVD and
the
motherboard is a A8n32 sli delux. AV is norton AV 7. All of the
problems
seemed to start after a windows update ( set to auto)
So in short
1) Does the repeated network connection/ disconnection problem have a
solution.
2) Has the DVD gone to god or is it a problem with the motherboard
bios
recognising the drive correctly.
Thanks for your Help

This paragraph reads as if you have misconfigured power options for your
needs.
Also for best performance the CMOS/BIOS settings _should_ be
reconfigured
after a BIOS flash.

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much for the reply frank.
Since my post I have replaced the DVD with a new dvd and this machine works
fine. So i am assuming the dvd died.
The connect/ disconnect problem is still occuring on the other machine and
this one doesn't have any changes to the bios. I will check the power options
as you have said.