Network card details locked to card slot

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Dear John,

Please remove/uninstall your LAN card from Device Manager and then re-boot
your machine. Insert the second card and on restart it will configure it
automatically. If not then you have to provide the right drivers. Also
please note that you might get a message to activate your copy of Windows XP
after the HW change in your machine.

Taimur Mughal [MSFT]

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"John" <nospam@plusnet.com> wrote in message
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> When I move a network card from one slot to another, XP thinks I have
> introduced a second card and continues to associate the original slot
> with the card that has been moved.
>
> I find that after moving a card and entering the fixed dns address
> that I choose to use, xp warns me that I am duplicating the dns
> address of 'another' card.
>
> When I try to remove all details of the 'first' card from the
> registry, regedit won't allow it.
>
> This is not an operation-stopping condition but it seems perverse of
> xp to allow the details of a removed card to take over a slot for all
> time.