Unknown adapters!

[Marco]

While workinlg with my PC today the system flashed a blue
screen and rebooted itself. However while rebooting the
system again flashed a blue screen (too quickly to read)
then seemed to be starting normally then again rebooted
itself this time with the standard black screen promted
how I would like to start. I chose safe mode, when there
I entered the device manager, all looked normal but when
I expanded the Network adapters I saw not only my NIC but
also the following; Direct Parallel, WAN Miniport (IP),
WAN Miniport (IP) - Packet Scheduler Miniport, WAN
Miniport (L2TP), WAN Miniport (PPPOE), and WAN Miniport
(PPTP). I did not install any of these adapters and I
can't delete them. When I do I receive the following
error "Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be
required to boot up the computer." When I restarted the
same issue occured and I had to enter safe mode. This
time I disable all the additional adapters and the system
started normally. I still can not delete those adapters
nor do I have any clue how they got there or what they
do. If any can help please email me.

Thanks, Marco

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

All those devices are normal and shouldn't be deleted. Do you have modem
installed?