Re: SBS NIC Cards give Code 1

Les,

I had checked the log, it gives no information on top of what I've already
got. It simply states "Class installer failed. Error 2: The system cannot
find the file specified."

So like you I suspect something at a fairly low level.

I'm pretty much out of places to go here I think so I'm hoping to do a clean
build and then restore.
"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you checked your setupapi.log for clues? This log records all the
activities of
the Windows Setup and Device Installer services.

But it appears something is wrong at a fairly low level - it's possible
you'll get the same error regardless of what hardware you try and
install - I doubt it's just networking.

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"William Paris" <williamparis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Lee,

Same error as above: "An error occured during the installation of the
device. The system cannot find the file specified."

Do I perhaps have a corrupt drivers directory or more likely corruption
in the registry linking network drivers?

As an aside, also affected is the 1394 adapter.

I don't think that this is a hardware fault. The pci nic has already
been tested in another system and it works. The fact that the on-board
nic, pci nic and the firewire have all been effected AND given that I
can't install the MS loopback makes me believe in either a HAL error (I
hope not) or a corruption in the registry.

Regards,
William
"William Paris" <williamparis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Les, thanks for your answer.

I'll try configuring 2 loopbacks and you suggested and removing one
adapter and disabling the other.

Will post results.

Regards,
William
"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Also, you might try installing two loopback adapters, transferring your
NIC settings to them, and then completely removing the physical nics
from the box (or disabling them in bios if embedded) , including
drivers and cleaning out devmgr. If you can get it stable with the
loopbacks, add in the NICs and transfer the settings back.

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you tried removing the device (NICs) in Device Manager; then run
the Add New Hardware wizard and reinstall the NIC(s) using drivers
downloaded from the manaufacturers web site (or from a recovery disk)?

--
Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"William Paris" <williamparis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi everyone, long time SBS user but this is the first post I've done
on the
newsgroups.

I run an SBS 2003 server at home with a number of Non-Profit websites
for
free for charities that couldn't otherwise afford webspace. I
provide them
with mail, remote webwork place etc.

Here's my problem.

I've got workmen at my house converting my garage into an office.

They were messing with the electrics and powered up/down about 14-15
times
throughout the course of the day. By the end my UPS had no more
juice left
and my SBS server went down hard a number of time.

After one of the times it didn't come back up. It gave a boot error
and I
went into recovery console and performed a FIXBOOT. The server then
booted
fine.

However here were the following behaviours of the server:

1) I only had external connectivity
2) The internal (LAN) side card showed in the dev mgr but gave a Code
31
3) The only thing that showed in either card's properties was the
Windows
Client. Each time I tried to add tcp/ip the error msg given was
"Cannot
find file"

I contacted MS Support who brilliantly called my back the next day -
the
bummer is that I was out of the office the whole week this week and
wasn't
able to contact them back. I did via email ask if an "In-Place
upgrade"
would sort my issue. The MS engineer responded with a 'most likely'
so
Friday night after doing a full backup using NTbackup I did that.

Now my server's behaviour is much worse:

1) I have no connectivity at all
2) The NICs all give a Code 1 in the Dev Mgr and won't uninstall
giving an
error msg of "This device is required for boot"
3) Each time I reboot I get a "New hardware found" and then the cards
don't
install giving a "file not found"
4) A full restore with file over write did NOT get me back to the
previous
behaviour. I'm now stuck.

I'd really like some help getting this back without having to rebuild
the
server. I've got screenshots of all the above mentioned if this will
help.

Here's some actions I've performed:

1) Added devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices 1 into the environment to see
if the
nic cards had hidden devs that were preventing them from being
uninstalled
2) Manually uninstalled the devices via the registry and
system32\drivers
(they reappeared and gave the above error msg!)
3) Backed up my system state, my exchange, my www and iis config.

Can someone please help me!

Regards,
William Paris
williamparis@btinternet<REMOVEME>.com













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