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Dealing with a Device Driver Disaster

Invalid or corrupt device drivers can wreck havoc on a server, rendering the system unbootable in some cases. In this article, I will show you some techniques for recovering from even the worst device driver mishaps in a variety of Windows operating systems. The scary part is that most administrators are under a huge amount of pressure to keep their servers up to date with the latest patches and drivers. With such frequent updating, it only stands to reason that sooner or later the odds of an administrator downloading a buggy, corrupt, or simply incorrect device driver at some point in time are pretty good. That being the case, let?s pretend for a moment that you install an updated device driver onto one of your servers, and the server produces the infamous blue screen of death. What do you do about it?

The appropriate course of action really just depends on what operating system is running on your server. If you are running Windows NT 4.0, then all I can say is ?good luck?. The only real tools that Microsoft gives you to deal with a situation like this in Windows NT 4.0 are the Last Known Good Configuration option and the VGA Mode option.

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