Network Card keeps coming back

[VaeVictus]

Hi guys, neat forum you've got here.

Anyway I'm having problem with an old network card coming back agian and again. I recently upgraded my Mobo/processor/ram. I picked up the Epox 8KDA3J board which has a built in ethernet port which I now plug my cat5 into. Everything works fine except that the old networking card still shows up even though I removed it when I put the new board in. Every time I boot up windows gives me the "new netwoking device found" message. So I go to control panel -> system -> device profiles and I uninstall the old "card". And it KEEPS coming back. What can I do to remove it forever?

Thanks!

 

[tm37]

Did you reinstall the OS on that new board?

What card is it?

What was the old Board.

I have never heard of XP detecting something that was not there.

 

[VaeVictus]

Yes I did reinstall XP on the new config. The old card was an AOpen card, but it isn't detecting the AOpen card, some intel networking card. The old board was a Gigabye GA-7VRX (Rev 2.0). I'm thinking that there is an old driver or something left behind but I cant find it.

 

[sharq]

Maybe I'm not following you, but you say that you did a fresh install of XP from scratch after your upgrade, and its now detecting a card that you don't have and/or never plugged into it?

 

[VaeVictus]

The XP install wasn't a fresh install. I chose to recover XP after my upgrade because after installing the new cpu/mobo/ram, I couldn't boot into Windows at all. Rather, I would get a screen asking me if I wanted to go into windows, go into windows safe mode, start windows with networking or go to a command prompt. At that point I shut down the computer and put in my XP disk and turned the computer on again. I proceeded to install windows using the recovery process. When that was finished everything seemed ok ( all my new hardware was detected and running properly).

The problem is that Windows keeps detecting a network card that isn't there. There once was a network card in my system before I did the hardware upgrade but I removed it because my new mobo has a built in port. Every time I restart my computer I get the new networking device has been detected message. In my hardware profiles it shows two working cards (the Nvidia one build into my mobo and this Intel card that isn't really there). There is no networking card in any of my PCI slots.

Hope this helps.

 

[MaxDepth]

check your network properties for another local network connection. if it shows up there, then disable it and then remove it.

otherwise, check your hardware configuration in the device manager. then remove it from there.

 

[VaeVictus]

Ya, I did that too. I went to the network properties screen and saw the two cards. That's the screen that lists the cards and has the little "network graphic next to it right? Kinda looks like this:
-|- Nvidia Network Card
-|- Intel 70070 (can't remeber the exact numbers) Network Card

Neither connection has that red X that tells you that a Lan cable has been unplugged or one of the cards isn't working. It shows both as working.

When I go to "uninstall" in the device manager it gets rid of the card but it comes back every time I restart my comptuer.

Thanks for suggestions though 🙂

 

[dmcowen674]

Delete it out of the Device Mangaer from Safe Mode, that will get rid of it permanently for you.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Delete it out of the Device Mangaer from Safe Mode, that will get rid of it permanently for you.

Welcome back!

Are you going to be in Hotlanta this labor Day weekend?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Delete it out of the Device Mangaer from Safe Mode, that will get rid of it permanently for you.

Welcome back!

Are you going to be in Hotlanta this labor Day weekend?

Thanks

I am out of Georgia.

I now live in New Orleans.