cannot uninstall NIC in SP2

Greetings! Please excuse any discrepancies as I am new to this forum. I am running Windows XP Home with SP2 on a small (2 computers) network. Recently I was adding a router to the network as I had hopes of adding a file server. I changed the workgroup name from "WorkGroup" to "Home Network." It seems once I did that I lost network connectivity on that system. Thinking perhaps my NIC card had gone bad, I replaced it. But the replacement didn't seem to resolve the issue. Still no network. I tried it in a different slot. No good. I replaced the cable. No good. I tried a diffferent switch/hub. No good. I tried a 3rd NIc card. No good. I have tried moving the card to different slots. When I went into Device Manager all THREE cards were listed. In fact, there was a listing for each time I uninstalled and reinstalled each card. and here is where the BIG frustration comes in: I CANNOT unistall ANY of them. It gives an error that "Uninstall device failed. Device May be needed to boot computer." I can disable them. Just not uninstall them. I have run registry cleaners. Virus scanners. I cannot Restore BACK past the point I did the change to the network settings either. I need help getting these cards uninstalled from my system please. Please let me know if I have left any pertinent info out. Thanks in advance! Shane

PS- The cards are showing as "Packet Scheduler" in Device Manager.

 

Welcome to the BBS,
A couple of things to try. Disconnect any network cable from the installed card. Boot the PC into safe mode, and try uninstalling them from the device manager.

If still no go. power off the PC and physically remove the card from the PC. Power up and try uninstalling from there, in normal boot or safe mode.

HTH

 

"WorkGroup" to "Home Network." Spaces in the workgroup name are a very bad idea. Home-network would be OK as would Home_Network.

 

still no go!!!

After doing above I am still unable to resolve the issue. I am about to format the HDD and reload WinXp. Does anyone have anyother ideas? I have been researching this left and right and cannot seem to get this corrected.

 

From a cmd prompt

Code:

Netsh int ip reset C:\iplog.txt

will reset all networking values to the default ones (same as you'd get with a reinstall of the OS). You can try that and setting the PC's networking up again.

 

All that installing and uninstalling. Either go to safemode and show hidden files under view in Device manager. Remove or, if they won't go away, just disable them. Even the most recent card. Reboot back to Windows and try installing the drivers again.