Re: Network cards

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I'm not Kev, Mick here, or SG for simplicity's sake.

Yes, you should be able to remove the greyed out adapter and any miniport
driver associated with it. Do the adapter and the miniport should disappear,
but sometimes it don't, if so I'd try restarting before manually removing.

"Robert McHenry" <RobertMcHenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Kevin
>
> I believe it was the external (WAN) side that was moved. I followed your
> suggestion & it worked like a charm. I do see the original instance of the
> adapter, It's grayed out...Can I remove it?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> from a DOS prompt
>>
>> set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
>> start devmgmt.msc
>>
>> then, in the resulting Device Manager choose View, Show Hidden.
>>
>> was it the 'internal' or 'external' NIC which changed? (I'll guess
>> external,
>> else you'd be asking more questions :-)
>>
>> "Robert McHenry" <RobertMcHenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message
>> news:151BB141-06A3-4565-8063-01FBFD64CAAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I had my SBS server configured with two seperate NICS (from different
>> > manufactures) installed. I was having issues with a SCSI card so I
>> > swapped
>> > slots with one of the NICS. When I booted the server it redetected the
>> > NIC
>> > I
>> > moved but put a (2) behind the name of the NIC.
>> >
>> > How do I get rid of the original instance of this NIC. Has to be out in
>> > the
>> > registry somewhere. Having issues running the network wizzards & I
>> > think
>> > the
>> > errors I'm getting are related to the above issue.
>> >
>> > Thanks All
>>
>>
>>


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