
It is really hit or miss but if you are having stability issues or blue screens pointing to your network card(s) or network connectivity issues, it wouldn't hurt to try this. I have updated my BIOS a few times since but always left the network as the Atheros AR8161. Doing the above fix about 3-4 months ago has fixed my issues with the network card being flaky. I found with my own motherboard, Gigabyte M5.Sniper, the Killer NIC suite and the generic driver resulted in system instability on both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. There are numerous threads and within the past 2 months a few stickies have been added to their forums for this. Not always but enough it got a response from MSI that the Killer NIC software suite and often just the generic driver itself will result in system instability with both Windows 8 (Most often) and Windows 7(on occasion). There is a major thread over on MSI's support forums in regards to their laptops and motherboards that incorporate the Killer NIC and Killer WLAN. Razer Blackwidow Chroma X UK | T480 UK Lumi Logitech G305 Lightspeedy Wireless | Lenowo TouchPad & Logitech G305 Seasonic Prime 1200 watt 80Plus Platinum (Backup Seasonic Focus PX 750W Platinum) | 65W LG UltraGear 27GP850-B | LG 48CX OLED 4K HDR | AUO 14" 1440p IPSįractal Design Meshify 2 Tempered Glass White/Black | Lenowo T480 chassis Gigabyte M30 1TB|Sabrent Rocket 2TB|850EVO 1TB|Exos 16TB|10TB|1TB \ SKHynix 256GB 2242 3x2 XFX Radeon™ RX 7900 XT Speedster Merc 310 20GB | Nvidia MX 150 2GB GDDR5 Micron

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