Too Many Network Adaptors?

[Guest]

My wife did a diagnostic on our PC, and it showed everything passing but the
Network adapters. It refers us to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899868 .
When I looked in system info under Network/Adapters, I show 12 entries.
Name [00000001] HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Name [00000002] Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
Name [00000003] RAS Async Adapter
Name [00000004] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000005] WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Name [00000006] WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Name [00000007] WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Name [00000008] Direct Parallel
Name [00000009] WAN Miniport (IP)
Name [00000010] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000011] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000012] 1394 Net Adapter

All are showing as installed. Do we need all of this stuff installed, and
could this have anything to do with our PC booting up slowly? The aritcle
says to delete the false adaptors and registry keys. I don't want to start
deleting unless it is necessary. Any ideas on this?

Milkman

 

[DL]

Only you know what hardware is installed on your PC
Miniport drivers are generally chipset drivers

Have you perchance been using winupdate for drivers?
If so, very bad idea

 

[Brian A.]

You could delete the devices in SafeMode > Device Manger, it's best to remove all
of them.
Reboot and Windows will detect/install the devices/drivers installed in the PC.

Windows should already have the drivers for the HP and RealTek devices, yet just in
case you may want to download the drivers from the manufacturers site.
Start here for the HP if it is an HP or Compaq system:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html?pageDisplay=drivers

and the ReakTek drivers can be obtained here:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...d=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

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Conflicts start where information lacks.
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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[glee]

What diagnostic did your wife run, and exactly what did it say was wrong with the
network adapters?

I don't actually see anything wrong with that msinfo32 report itself, assuming you
actually have two different Network adapters installed. Do you have an onboard
network adapter as well as an add-in network card? If so, you will find two RJ-45
network jacks on the back of the computer.

An onboard jack will probably be amongst the USB ports and keyboard connector on the
back panel. An add-in card will have the jack on the card in a PCI slot, which is
located in a different section of the rear panel. It's also possible that you have
two and they are *both* add-in PCI cards.

It's also possible that you only have one physical network adapter, and the second
one is a ghost. If there is any doubt as to what is installed physically, remove
all entries in Safe Mode, or use this method:

Click Start> All Programs> Accessories> Command Prompt.
At a command prompt, type the following command , and press ENTER:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Still at the command prompt, type the following command, and press ENTER:
start devmgmt.msc

This starts Device Manager.
Click the View tab> Show Hidden Devices

Remove any "phantom" (greyed out) device entries that exist in the Network Adapters
heading.

Remove any "phantom" (greyed out) driver entries that exist under the Non-Plug and
Play drivers section.

Uninstall any network adapter by right clicking its entry under Network Adapters,
and clicking Uninstall.

When done, close Device Manager and the command prompt window.

Shut down the computer, wait a few minutes, then start the computer, and let Windows
re-detect the Network adapters and components. Be sure you have downloaded drivers
available in case Windows does not have the drivers for your device.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/

My wife did a diagnostic on our PC, and it showed everything passing but the
Network adapters. It refers us to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899868 .
When I looked in system info under Network/Adapters, I show 12 entries.
Name [00000001] HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Name [00000002] Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
Name [00000003] RAS Async Adapter
Name [00000004] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000005] WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Name [00000006] WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Name [00000007] WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Name [00000008] Direct Parallel
Name [00000009] WAN Miniport (IP)
Name [00000010] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000011] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000012] 1394 Net Adapter

All are showing as installed. Do we need all of this stuff installed, and
could this have anything to do with our PC booting up slowly? The aritcle
says to delete the false adaptors and registry keys. I don't want to start
deleting unless it is necessary. Any ideas on this?

Milkman

 

[M.I.5¾]

My wife did a diagnostic on our PC, and it showed everything passing but
the
Network adapters. It refers us to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899868 .
When I looked in system info under Network/Adapters, I show 12 entries.
Name [00000001] HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Name [00000002] Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
Name [00000003] RAS Async Adapter
Name [00000004] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000005] WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Name [00000006] WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Name [00000007] WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Name [00000008] Direct Parallel
Name [00000009] WAN Miniport (IP)
Name [00000010] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000011] Packet Scheduler Miniport
Name [00000012] 1394 Net Adapter

All are showing as installed. Do we need all of this stuff installed, and
could this have anything to do with our PC booting up slowly? The aritcle
says to delete the false adaptors and registry keys. I don't want to start
deleting unless it is necessary. Any ideas on this?

Be aware that the last one is in fact your firewire port, which is a valid
network port (in that you can implement a network entirely in firewire - and
windows supports such a network).

 

[RalfG]

Has nothing to do with your PC booting slowly other than you seem to have 2
ethernet cards installed in the computer. Most of the rest are virtual
devices required for networking. If you delete any of the entries you can
potentially create problems for yourself.

If you aren't using one of the ethernet adapters you can "Disable" it
rather than uninstall (also the 1394 Net Adapter) to prevent it waiting to
be assigned an address. It can take over 2 minutes waiting for DHCP to
time-out on the adapter and switch to automatic addressing. If both were
being used there should be duplicates of some of the entries you listed
below, one for each adapter.


normal-(added in ethernet card?)> Name [00000001] HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100
Fast Ethernet Adapter
normal-(on-board ethernet adapter?)> Name [00000002] Realtek RTL8139/810x
Family Fast Ethernet NIC

normal-> Name [00000003] RAS Async Adapter
normal-> Name [00000004] Packet Scheduler Miniport
normal-> Name [00000005] WAN Miniport (L2TP)
normal-> Name [00000006] WAN Miniport (PPTP)
normal-> Name [00000007] WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
normal-> Name [00000008] Direct Parallel
normal-> Name [00000009] WAN Miniport (IP)
normal-> Name [00000010] Packet Scheduler Miniport
normal-> Name [00000011] Packet Scheduler Miniport
normal-> Name [00000012] 1394 Net Adapter