When ever I boot up my Win Xp machine I almost always have to do a repair on the lan card to get connected to the Internet. Connecting to the Lan is no problem but I must do a repair before I can connect to the Internet. Any suggestions please.

What are yoou repairing? A loose solder joint? :-(

Might change the order of boot? Seems that when you do a repair it does (I think) 4 things. Can't remember them all. Arp cache, dns flush, get dns? dunno sumthin else. You could do each one at time to see what corrects your issue and trouble shoot it based on what fixed it.

"Using the Repair Button Clicking the Repair button on the Support tab of a connection’s status dialog box (shown in Figure 8-6) performs the following six functions in sequence: 1. Broadcast a DHCP Request message to renew the currently assigned client IP address. (This step is performed only if the client is a DHCP client.) This function is similar to the one provided by the Ipconfig /renew command, but in the case of the Ipconfig /renew command, the request to renew the currently active IP address is sent by unicast, not broadcast, to the DHCP server that assigned the address. If no address (0.0.0.0) is currently assigned to the client, the first step performed by the Repair button (as with the Ipconfig /renew command) is to broadcast a DHCP Discover packet to the network. 2. Flush the ARP cache. This step is the functional equivalent of entering arp –d * at a command prompt. 3. Flush the NetBIOS cache. This step is the functional equivalent of entering the nbtstat –R command at a command prompt. 4. Flush the DNS cache. This step is the functional equivalent of entering the ipconfig /flushdns command at a command prompt. 5. Reregister the client’s NetBIOS name and IP address with a WINS server. This step is the functional equivalent of entering the nbtstat –RR command at a command prompt. 6. Reregister the client’s computer name and IP address with DNS. This step is the functional equivalent of entering the ipconfig /registerdns command at a command prompt." A very good bookset, just had to look it back up. Knowing what repair does can help you determine how to correct your problem. Good luck. From 70-291 Microsoft press PUBLISHED BY Microsoft Press A Division of Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington 980526399 Copyright © 2004 by Microsoft Corporation