Two Versions of the same NIC

[Guest]

Hi all,

I recently had some hardware probs at home and was forced to rebuild one of
my PC's. The new MB had a built in NIC so decided to use that for my
Internet connection rather than a seperate card.

When setting it up, I was advised that the IP address I was trying to assign
was already assigned to the old Network card, although it had been hidden as
it is no longer installed.

I have since decided to reinstall the old NIC (for my home network).
Autodetected fine, although named NIC #2. I am having some difficulty
getting home network to work and I am confident it has something to do with
the "hidden" NIC#1.

Long background - simple question. How to I display NIC#1 so I can delete
this connection? Any help would be appreciated

Cheers
Rob

 

[BP]

This worked for me:

Have a read of this:
Device Manager Does Not Display Devices That Are Not
Connected to the Windows XP-Based Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315539

You might like to use this article to force Device Manager to show the
nonpresent devices.
The nonpresent ghosts should now reveal themselves.
You should then delete the nonpresent network adapter from device manager.

After doing this, disable and then re-enable ICS.
( use the wizard to set it up if you like, or just do it manually. )

From: Ron Lowe