you must uninstall the driver before removing a nic or moving it to another slot in the server. to uninstall the driver software, do the following:

    1 start your windows nt system and log in. you must have network administrator privileges to install the driver software.

    2 click the start menu, and then select setting, control panel.

    3 the control panel screen opens. double-click the network icon

    4 the network window appears. select the adapters tab.

    5 click the nic you want to uninstall, and then click remove.

    6 a "do you still wish to continue" message appears. click yes.

    7 in the network adapters screen, click ok to finish uninstalling the driver.

    8 when prompted to restart your computer, click yes. now you can shut down your system, and then physically remove the network interface card from the pci slot.

    you must uninstall the driver before removing a nic or moving it to another slot in the server. when the driver software has been successfully uninstalled, you can shut down the system and remove the nic from the pci slot.