AD Failed after replacing NIC

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From: Richard (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:50:05 -0700

Hi there,

The old NIC in my win2k server just died, to the point
where the server doesn't boot up if the thing is plugged
in.

So I replaced it with another one and now AD isn't
working. I've tried following the instructions in
articles such as Q263532, however not even DCDiag will
run, giving the following error:

[DC01] LDAP bind failed with error 31,
A device attached to the system is not functioning..

netdiag also shows up errors, as does ntdsutil.

I can't even get AD users and computers up, and ADSI edit
says "No authority could be contacted for authentication"

It's a domain controller (the only one), running on win2k
sp4, with exchange 2003 installed.

I had this problem on another server a whlie ago when
upgrading the NIC to a GB card, is there any way I can
restore connectivity to the AD database without doing a
re-install?

We even considered bringing forward our 2k3 roll-out,
adprep won't run either, so even upgrading is out of the
question.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Richard

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