WindowsXP constantly loses network connection - please help

[Akira13]

Hi everyone,
I'm using WinXP on my PC connected to a home network (cat5, Linksys router, ATTBI). I migrated to the network from a single dialup connection. Now when I browse the web, certain pages will almost certainly cause XP to "think" I've lost my connection. The network itself remains running properly, and the other computers on the network (all win98) stay connected.

For example, loading techbargains causes the "internet connection lost, open dialup connection or workoffline?" dialog to appear. I click cancel, then use the repair function, then try again, and when the "connect or stay offline?" dialog appears, I click connect, and I'm back online, temporarily. This happens 1/5 times I try to connect to any website. What's even stranger is that if I "lose my connection" but don't repair, and just reboot, it will remember that I've lost my connection instead of trying to reestablish, and give me the same "connect or stay offline?" message.

Can anyone help me?
Thanks.

Hardware: Athlon 1700+, 512mbDDR, Epox 8KHA+, Linksys NIC, Chaintech GF4Ti4200...

 

[Syran]

Open up IE and pull up tools->internet options (or just right click on icon if you can, and choose properties)
Click on connections.
Choose never dial a connection if you have any dial ups listed
Click on Lan settings
Make sure all 3 options here are unchecked. Sometimes I've found have automatically detect settings can cause problems.

Normally what seems to happen here is once a system is dial-up, windows ALWAYS wants to be dial-up, and can be a serious @ss about it too.

 

[Akira13]

Thanks, I tried those suggestions. Everything seems to be working fine now. It hasn't been that long since I implimented the solutions, but techbargains seems to load without fail. Thanks again.

 

[Syran]

My parents had that problem when they switched over from dial-up to dsl, that seems to work just fine.

 

[DeathByDuke]

I had that same problem with my dialup on the network and I traced the problem to my dial-ups DSN server settings had somehow installed itself onto the Netgear RP114 Router I have. I went in to the DCHP Server pages on the Router and got rid of them then I manually configured the DNS servers to the same address as the Gateway which is the router - not had any problems since. Apparently the dial-up was also trying to access the router because of the DNS servers settings and so was knocking the network off every 5 to 10 minutes