Periodic disconnects from the LAN on XP Pro sp1

I have a few clients who run XP pro sp1 and are
experiencing periodic disconnects from their LAN for no
apparent reason or error message. It can be reconnected
by just right clicking on it and enabling it but it can
be a hassle when this happens on file transfers. Has
anyone heard of this or know how to fix it???

Chris wrote:
I have a few clients who run XP pro sp1 and are
experiencing periodic disconnects from their LAN for no
apparent reason or error message. It can be reconnected
by just right clicking on it and enabling it but it can
be a hassle when this happens on file transfers. Has
anyone heard of this or know how to fix it???

This can happen if the physical connection has trouble supporting
100Mb/s due to cabling problems, dirty jacks, hot switches, etc. Most
LAN cards seem to autodetect to 100Mb/s if they can initialize the
connection at all even if there are difficulties doing so. Setting the
card manually to 10Mb/s often solves the connection problem and points
to a physical network fault.

Q