Bad NIC Driver = Memory Dump NT Workstation

[mikeyt1513]

I disabled the 3Com 3c905 bt tx in the BIOS on the System board. Then uninstalled the drivers in NT. Then powered down put in a new PCI 3Com 3c905b tx 10/100... Booted up installed the drivers for the new card, specified IP address, etc.

Asks me to reboot, then I get the blue screen of death, it went to the logon screen then memory dump. IRQ error, it is definitely the NIC driver. So I do not have the last good configuration anymore. I cannot do a restore from backups because there is no network connectivity. How can I get it to boot up.

I dont want to install a new operating system on the E: partition and then do a restore. Time for a migration to 2000 and recovery console.

Please help before engineer gets back to build machine on Mon morning.

 

[dennyfset]

Can you go back to the original configuration? Can you put the old NIC back in and get into BIOS and go back to where you were? You didn't leave a backdoor open [ backups ].

 

[mikeyt1513]

Yes I can, but it will still try to load the drivers for the second NIC that I installed. I think I am going to just install a quick OS on another drive and do a restore of the C: Drive. Any other suggestions?