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We upgraded to Virtual Center 2.5 and our XP deployments failed to join the domain. When I logged onto the VM I received a popup about an unsigned driver issue for the network card. Turns out a patch to the network driver in ESX 3.0.1 updated the driver to version 2.0.0.9 and there was a version of it in C:\WINDOWS\system32\ReinstallBackups. ESX 3.0.2 has a version of 2.0.0.8 so it looks like the problem was resolved within ESX itself.

I am not sure what changed in the deployment process for this issue to show itself after a VC upgrade, but here is what I did to resolve the issue in the template.

1. Convert to virtual machine
2. Power on
3. Uninstall VMware tools and reboot
4. Dismiss hardware dialogs
5. Delete the VMware driver folders in C:\WINDOWS\system32\ReinstallBackups
6. Delete lgotsync, vmmouse, vmx_svga, and vmxnet from windows\system32\drivers
7. Search for driver files in other locations and delete them
8. Reboot
9. Install the current VMware tools
10. Reboot
11. Configure display settings
12. Shutdown
13. Convert to template