I've been
cleaning up my Exchange Server 2003 VM... I found a service which was installed when it was a physical machine... Intel Active Monitor...
It won't uninstall from add/remove programs and makes the machine give the "service / driver failed to load" message at startup, so I've made it a mission to get rid of it!
the eventvwr message i get is:
"The SIODRV service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the device specified. "
problem is I can't find which windows service that relates to... From reading around it appears to be the Intel Active Monitor....
First thing I thought was to try re-downloading the monitor, Installing, then UnInstalling. I got bored looking on the intel site so decided to dig a bit further...
The only Intel service on the machine is the Active monitor and that's disabled, so what next?
I found
this bad boy! So, I deleted the following Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SIODRV
this didn't remove the Intel Active Monitor service, but has sorted the problem!
edit: intel key is here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\imonNT
deleted this and intel active monitor is gone!!
In doing this i found
this... I can now shut my exchange box down in less than 10 minutes!!! The script doesn't work, but if i manually stop the services the box shuts down MUCH quicker!
