What can I do to solve this issue?? in a Proliant DL380 G5 server.
The driver for your NIC card failed to open. So I would say you have a wrong, faulty or corrupted Nic driver.
Go to device manager and it will tell you the status of your network adaptors and make and model so that you can search for new drivers.
The other thing that you can do is delete your nic card in device manager and reboot this will force windows to search for the correct driver so that it can reinstall.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Get the latest updates from Microsoft that have anything to do with networking. Get the latest drivers from the manufacturer and install them. If the error persists, contact the card vendor (motherboard vendor?) and ask them.
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March 10th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Go to http://www.eventid.net
Enter 296 in the event id search field
You’ll need to find the original entry in the event log because you will need to know which process or service issued the error.
Find the matching service/process and look over the suggestions.
This site is pretty good about giving decent suggestions.
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March 10th, 2010 at 6:17 am
The driver for your NIC card failed to open. So I would say you have a wrong, faulty or corrupted Nic driver.
Go to device manager and it will tell you the status of your network adaptors and make and model so that you can search for new drivers.
The other thing that you can do is delete your nic card in device manager and reboot this will force windows to search for the correct driver so that it can reinstall.
References :