Multiple Network adapters appearing

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Bill Bennett

Have a XP home system that is not able to access the DHCP
that is working fine on all other systems here. The
problem being is that I have tried to remove the adpater
from the system via device manager but it will not allow
me to remove it giving me a error stating that it is a
device required for booting. I have also tried installing
a differnt adapter and now that adpater (even after being
physically removed from the system) gives me that same
erro when I try to remove it from device manager even
thought it is no longer even in the system. The other
question I have is why does each time I disable the
adapter that teh next time I start teh system and the hard
ware is reinstalled that the adpater is shown as adpater #
2 or 3 etc. now I am up to adapter # 9 and it will not
enable or show any sort of connection to the network at
all.
I have removed all Malware etc. and my updates are current
and Antivirus is completely upto date.
 
Bill Bennett said:
Have a XP home system that is not able to access the DHCP
that is working fine on all other systems here. The
problem being is that I have tried to remove the adpater
from the system via device manager but it will not allow
me to remove it giving me a error stating that it is a
device required for booting.

This is a bug in device manager. In some cases if installation of a driver was aborted, it fails to
remove it.
I have also tried installing
a differnt adapter and now that adpater (even after being
physically removed from the system) gives me that same
erro when I try to remove it from device manager even
thought it is no longer even in the system. The other
question I have is why does each time I disable the
adapter that teh next time I start teh system and the hard
ware is reinstalled that the adpater is shown as adpater #
2 or 3 etc. now I am up to adapter # 9 and it will not
enable or show any sort of connection to the network at
all.

Installation of that driver fails from some reason.
Request help from those who provided this driver.

- PA
 
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