Corrupt plug-n-play database?
> On May 27, 2014, at 12:51, "Melvin Backus" <[email protected]> wrote: > > There don’t appear to be. The only things that show up by turning on the > hidden devices are the various WAN miniports, ISATAP, and Teredo. > > -- > There are 10 kinds of people in the world... > those who understand binary and those who don't. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Invisible NIC - now there's no network > > But are there duplicates in hidden devices that are causing conflicts? > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Melvin Backus > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Invisible NIC - now there's no network > > No need for Show Hidden Devices, they show up there without it. > > -- > There are 10 kinds of people in the world... > those who understand binary and those who don't. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 3:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Invisible NIC - now there's no network > > Device Manager à Show Hidden Devices > > Does it show your mystery devices? > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Melvin Backus > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 2:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Invisible NIC - now there's no network > > OK, after about a day and a half looking at this I’m officially, well, that > might get me tossed… J > > Sorry for the long post but I want to make sure I’ve got everything so we can > avoided as many of the preliminary “did you” questions as possible. > > We had a maintenance event last week. We had to shut down all our VMs to > make some changes to the SAN. Everything we smoothly for the most part, but > our Lync server decided it didn’t want to play well when it came back up. > The NIC shows up in the Network Connections GUI, but under netsh / ipconfig, > there are no NICs, only the loopback adapter. > > Initial reaction was to remove/re-add the NIC which had no impact. So, we > added a new different adapter to make sure it wasn’t a corrupted driver, etc. > Originally it was an E1000, now VMXNET 3. Neither one shows up. So, since > it was late, we decided they could live without it until later, we’ll restore > from backups and move on. > > We came in this morning, restored the machine from backups. There was what > we initially thought was a snapshot from the backup software as well as the > main drive, so we only restored that. Everything comes up, talks to the > network, I can login to the domain, all is well, we thought. 2nd drive is > missing which as it turned out wasn’t a snapshot, it was a D: drive where all > the IIS, etc., lived. > > Soo, we restored again, this time everything. Things are looking better, but > now the domain trust is whacked, which we pretty much expected. But I can > talk to the network, Lync clients are actually connecting, but we don’t want > to leave it running this way so to make sure everything is back to normal we > disjoin / rejoin the domain and *WHAT!!*. You guessed, it’s right back to no > network again. Thinking it was something to do with the domain join (who > knows what, but that seemed to be the when part) we’ve disjoined it from the > domain again, but no joy, still no network. I’ve added an additional NIC to > the VM in the hopes that I could configure it and move on, but no joy, > regardless of the NIC type. Now the both show up in the GUI, but neither > shows up via IPCONFIG or NETSH. > > This is a 2008r2 server, fully patched, running on ESX 4.1. I’ve found lots > of links about resetting the IP stack, none of which worked, and a few about > the hotplug capability in vsphere causing things to get removed from the > configuration, but that isn’t consistent with this since they still show up > both in the GUI and in the VMWare settings. (We actually have people do that > occasionally in our VDI environment, and now I actually know how to prevent > it. ) > > > advTHANKSance > > -------------------- > Melvin Backus | Sr. Systems Analyst | Byers Engineering Company | 404.497.1565 > Service Desk | 404-497-1599 | http://servicedesk.byers.com > -- > There are 10 kinds of people in the world... > those who understand binary and those who don't. >
