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Hello community.

Just wanted to share the experience i have had over the last week.  I have literally gained more grey hair with this mobo.. I have 3 of these i bought back in october 2016.  Used two of them to build rigs and one for just in case.  It sat in the box till last week.  I installed everything normally.. win 10 msi drivers from the disk etc.  Upon plugging in the video cards i started to see erratic behavior.  So i thought at first it was the psu.  So i changed that. No good.  Ive got 2 powercolor 480 2 sapphire 480 and 2 xfx.  (only because i had a two card buy limit from the sites i ordered from. ::) )  So i started isolation the cards. Started with one set and booted only for it to freeze up upon loading zec miner.  Tried all three sets of two to no avail.  So i bought 6 new risers ver 6 just to be certain i didnt have some flakey ver 3.  Still same behavior..  So i reset windows 10 from the system menu and reloaded the drivers from msi for the mobo.  Same problems as before. Only this time i had a weird issue with the network controller . It locked up my switch and rendered everything on the network unreachable.   Btc miners started beeping etc.  Soon as i unplugged this pc from the network.. Voila all was well again.> So now im really scratching my head.  So i decided today to try and look up why that could of happened and low and behold i find an article talking about just this with the network controller.  BSOD erratic system shutdowns, you name it was doing it to me.  So upon more research i found out that the drivers for the "KIller Ethernet controller causes severe system instability.. WEll crap wish i would of thought of this a week ago.   Ive never had such isssue with any other rig.. Tried all the usual stuff and nothing.  I was ready to return the board to msi as i wasnt about to buy another since they are gouging us on price. I paid 100 dollars for mine.. now they are pushing 400.. i think msi figured out what we using these for lol.. anyway. just wanted to share the resources with you in case you have such a problem with this board.  Sure had me stumped for a long time.  https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/guide-turn-your-killer-e2200-nic-into-qualcomm-atheros-ar8161.198899/  that site is the howto on fixing the issue.  Which worked for me :D  next is the forom where i located this info.  6th post from top page 3  https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=178063.14 

They sure picked an interesting name for this controller.  it def is a "killer'  sytem killer!!!!

BR
Doug