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Aussie Doug
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:23 am Post subject:
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Hi,
I have just suffered my first M/B failure on SBS 2000 that required me to
install my SCSI drives on another MB.
Everything has been bedded down and is working OK except that the system
still thinks that the old network cards are necessary and not able to be
'uninstalled'?? The report is that they are 'hidden' and are associated with
the previous IP addresses which I have reused with the new network cards.
Can anyone give me a clue on how to remove the old network card information?
Doug |
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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Paul
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:06 am Post subject:
Re: Help! |
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This is scary because it involves going into safe mode and removing the
entries using regedit.
I has the same situation after replacing a network card in the server and
had a similier problem - I could not uninstall the old network card
driver....
Here's my recollection of what I did.
Follow these instructions at your own risk. No warranty is stated or
implied.
Note: If in a production environment you may have to do this after hours -
depending on how generous you boss is 8-).
1) Performed a full verified backup
2) Go to Device manager and take a note of the name of the driver(s) that
you want to remove, you may have to view hidden devices to see this
3) Reboot the server in safe mode
4) Enter regedit and navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum]
5) Perform an export of this key - in case you need to reinport
5) Perform a search for the name of the driver(s) as noted in step 2)
6) When it is found look in the left column and delete the key starting
with "VENxxxxxxxx SUBSYSxxxxxxx" that is on the line above the key that you
found.
7) Look in the device manager to make sure the old driver is removed.
8) Once confirmed reboot the system normally
Note: If you have problems after doing this then double click on the export
file you created in step 5) and reboot.
This is how I did it - if anyone has an easier way, I'm all ears! 8-)
"Aussie Doug" <dgrady@intelesys.com.au> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi,
I have just suffered my first M/B failure on SBS 2000 that required me to
install my SCSI drives on another MB.
Everything has been bedded down and is working OK except that the system
still thinks that the old network cards are necessary and not able to be
'uninstalled'?? The report is that they are 'hidden' and are associated
with the previous IP addresses which I have reused with the new network
cards.
Can anyone give me a clue on how to remove the old network card
information?
Doug
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SuperGumby [SBS MVP]
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:
Re: Help! |
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PIFFLE to the other replies.
start the system in DSRM mode and run this batch file.
--------bat file starts after this line-------
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc
----------bat file finishes before this line------------
in the console it produces View/Show hidden devices.
remove the nonpresent nics (and other nonpresent devices, carefully, there's
some show as nonpresent which you actually want to keep).
Start the system in DSRM mode several more times, allowing any hardware
changes to be detected.
Configure your NICs.
restart normally.
NOTE: This may not in fact be the whole procedure, but it's close. If you're
in Sydney I can be contacted and will either get the system up or eat crow.
"Aussie Doug" <dgrady@intelesys.com.au> wrote in message
news:e2PO$WF9EHA.4004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | Hi,
I have just suffered my first M/B failure on SBS 2000 that required me to
install my SCSI drives on another MB.
Everything has been bedded down and is working OK except that the system
still thinks that the old network cards are necessary and not able to be
'uninstalled'?? The report is that they are 'hidden' and are associated
with the previous IP addresses which I have reused with the new network
cards.
Can anyone give me a clue on how to remove the old network card
information?
Doug
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Aussie Doug
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Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:
Re: Help! |
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Thanks guys!
I actually thought of trying Sup's method but got scared off of the Dos bit
and went for Safe Mode, view/hidden and removed the unwanted NIC card info,
even thought it would appear that Sup's a fellow crow eater!! (small world)
I was amazed about the number of duplicates when I clicked on show hidden!
Is there a safe way of going through and removing the majority of these
unnecessary 'hidden' unnecessary resources??
Doug
"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@your.nellie> wrote in message
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| Quote: | PIFFLE to the other replies.
start the system in DSRM mode and run this batch file.
--------bat file starts after this line-------
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc
----------bat file finishes before this line------------
in the console it produces View/Show hidden devices.
remove the nonpresent nics (and other nonpresent devices, carefully,
there's some show as nonpresent which you actually want to keep).
Start the system in DSRM mode several more times, allowing any hardware
changes to be detected.
Configure your NICs.
restart normally.
NOTE: This may not in fact be the whole procedure, but it's close. If
you're in Sydney I can be contacted and will either get the system up or
eat crow.
"Aussie Doug" <dgrady@intelesys.com.au> wrote in message
news:e2PO$WF9EHA.4004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
Hi,
I have just suffered my first M/B failure on SBS 2000 that required me to
install my SCSI drives on another MB.
Everything has been bedded down and is working OK except that the system
still thinks that the old network cards are necessary and not able to be
'uninstalled'?? The report is that they are 'hidden' and are associated
with the previous IP addresses which I have reused with the new network
cards.
Can anyone give me a clue on how to remove the old network card
information?
Doug
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