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
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
