I friend and previous co-worker emailed this to me. Late on a Sunday night while working on setting up a new server rack in one of our East Coast offices we moved the main 200+ Gb Dell Windows NT 4 file server out from the wall, unplugged the power and Ethernet cable and heard something fall into the case. Upon removing one of the side panels we discovered that the port on the Intel NIC literally fell off. After bit of panic due to the fact we wouldn't have been able to find a new NIC and didn't have any media or way of getting a new NIC into the system that would have worked with Windows NT 4. After the panic subsided I found some scotch tape, bent the pins on the jack, carefully positioned on the card, and taped it down. We successfully migrated all data from this box to the new Windows 2ooo file server cluster and had everything up and running by start of business Monday. I only wish I would have used duct-tape.
I friend and previous co-worker emailed this to me. Late on a Sunday night while working on setting up a new server rack in one of our East Coast offices we moved the main 200+ Gb Dell Windows NT 4 file server out from the wall, unplugged the power and Ethernet cable and heard something fall into the case. Upon removing one of the side panels we discovered that the port on the Intel NIC literally fell off. After bit of panic due to the fact we wouldn't have been able to find a new NIC and didn't have any media or way of getting a new NIC into the system that would have worked with Windows NT 4. After the panic subsided I found some scotch tape, bent the pins on the jack, carefully positioned on the card, and taped it down. We successfully migrated all data from this box to the new Windows 2ooo file server cluster and had everything up and running by start of business Monday. I only wish I would have used duct-tape. 
