Guest milkman2283 Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 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 -- milkman
Guest DL Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Too Many Network Adaptors? 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 "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:26CA3A1A-3443-489A-8E8A-A64054F771DE@microsoft.com... > 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 > > > -- > milkman
Guest Brian A. Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Too Many Network Adaptors? 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/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:26CA3A1A-3443-489A-8E8A-A64054F771DE@microsoft.com... > 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 > > > -- > milkman
Guest glee Posted August 3, 2007 Posted August 3, 2007 Re: Too Many Network Adaptors? 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/ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:26CA3A1A-3443-489A-8E8A-A64054F771DE@microsoft.com... > 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 > > > -- > milkman
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted August 3, 2007 Posted August 3, 2007 Re: Too Many Network Adaptors? "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:26CA3A1A-3443-489A-8E8A-A64054F771DE@microsoft.com... > 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).
Guest RalfG Posted August 4, 2007 Posted August 4, 2007 Re: Too Many Network Adaptors? 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 "milkman2283" <milkman2283@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:26CA3A1A-3443-489A-8E8A-A64054F771DE@microsoft.com... > 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. > > 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 > > > -- > milkman
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