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and the other in one of the PCI-X slots) everything seemed to fit without resorting to the use of heavy tools and when I switched on the computer it seemed to boot up normally, without any pops, bangs or a puffs of smoke.&#160; All that was needed was to get some drivers for Windows Server 2008 (these are old 100Mbps cards that have been sitting in my &quot;box of PC bits&quot; for a long time now).&#160; Windows Device Manager reported the vendor and device IDs as 8086 and 1229 respectively (I already knew from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/tracking-down-vendor-portion-of-mac.htm\">the first half of the MAC address<\/a> that these were Intel NICs), from which I could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/discovering-unknown-devices-in-windows.htm\">track down the vendor and device details<\/a> and find that device 1229 is an 82550\/1\/7\/8\/9 EtherExpress PRO\/100(B) Ethernet Adapter.&#160; Despite this being a discontinued product, 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