Okay, So, I had a motherboard in this server have its system blower controller fail so I replaced the whole mobo in it under warranty. hardware replacement went fine, and it originally had three NICs on the original Mobo, and the OS had three seperate network connections for them. Now, that I have replaced the mobo with a newer revision (this server is about 4 years old and on the edge of its warranty) windows PnP said, oh hey, looky there you got some new hardware to install and installed the newer driver or whatever for the newer nics. Now I have 6 ethernet connections under control panels > connections but only 3 physical NICs in the system. It wiped out all the network/IP settings for the controller when I replaced the motherboard, so when I go back to set the assigned IPs this system is assigned it gives me an error message saying that those IP addresses are assigned to cards that are no longer in the system. So, nothing works. I can give it a new IP and ping the server, but I can't set up a remote connection. RDC works from the server out to any work station but not from a work station to the server. I have a remote account enabled and set up I am guessing win2k3 server keeps instances of all the NICs and the settings in the registry somewhere, and if I could maybe delete those keys, or perhaps run a fix I could get rid of those settings and those three extra connections. Thoughts? Thanks in advance

Use device manager, select "show hidden devices" on the View menu, and see if those missing devices are visible under Network Adapters. If so, remove them. "Enough, enough bowing down to disillusion! Hats off & applause to rogues & evolution! The ripple effect is too good not to mention. If you’re not affected, you’re not paying attention!"