[thelist] OT Network question XP Pro

Ken Schaefer ken at adOpenStatic.com
Thu Jul 29 18:35:07 CDT 2004


If the SIS NIC has a miniport driver you may not be able to uninstall it.
Just disable the device. Assign the IP address to the new onboard NIC. You
will get a warning saying that the IP address has been allocated to another
device - ignore it. As long as both devices aren't connected to the network
at the same time, you won't have any problems (the error message says this
as well - namely that the reason it's giving you a warning is in case you
end up connecting both devices at the same time).

Cheers
Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" <schemer at speedeenet.com>
Subject: [thelist] OT Network question XP Pro


: I apologize in advance if this is off topic but I am feeling like a MS
: Beta tester right now :-(  I replaced my motherboard on my XP Pro box to
: resolve some stability issues, and after the never ending loop problem
: was figured out on boot up, I have a few other issues that maybe someone
: has experienced first hand. I know the answer about doing a "clean
: install" but I wanted to wait on that if I could. The problem is that
: after doing a repair install to get out of the looping bootup, I have a
: system that won't let me reuse an IP address from the old motherboards
: onboard NIC. My new Intel board has built in LAN but the old one had a
: SIS chipset version. When I try to use the same IP address as the old
: nonexistant NIC it throws an error type message that says that address
: is already assigned to the nonexistant device. I can see the SIS device
: in the device manager when I unhide the devices, but it won't allow me
: to delete it as it says it may be needed on bootup. The other problem is
: that the Intel INF Driver won't install. In the end I disabled the SIS
: device and got the network up and running using a different IP address.



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