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That's exciting Bob and I can't wait to see that! Gotta be a "screamer".

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I had almost forgotten, the board before the last 2 Gigabytes also a Gigabyte and while I used that unit 2 years and then sold it in another system. I remember the start where they shipped with an old bios and the Usb ports didn't work right and I almost returned the board as DOA but flashed the bios before I did that. Needless to say the bios update never mentioned the fix for usb ports. I wound up buying that board accidentally for another unit and having the same issue which after wasting a few hours messing with it I remembered. Nope I'm done.

Well this just isn't my week....It seems the pci slot is no better for network speeds in fact while it started out running 58 it soon dropped to 3 mbps. I sent for an RMA and placed an order for an Msi board right afterwards. I am completely done with Gigabyte. I haven't the time for this. I plugged my laptop into the same cord and ran 58 Mbps. Oh before I did that just to rule out every other possibility, I moved the board and all the to a new case for the same result.

Well after all that would you believe even though I blamed my networking component of Windows for the slow internet and then decided to reinstall Windows, the proper way to do a pc upgrade it turns out that while I was right, I was only partially right. I thought the internet seemed slower than normal and began running speed tests only to discover I was only getting 26 Mbps where I should be getting 56-57. I tried plugging directly to the modem and no difference. Then I tried another client unit on the other side of the room and that got 45 which still wasn't good enough but was substantially better. Then to my All-in-One and 58Mbps. I called Comcrap and they tested the modem and found some packet loss. I had them coming out this week to check system but decided to see if I can get a pci-x gigabit modem in and test that and sure enough 57Mbps. What that most likely means is another Gigabyte motherboard with an issue, the nic card. I can't believe it would be unable to do higher speeds so I have to assume its defective. The video card is substantially smaller than my old 260 GTX so I would bet I can squeeze underneath it to get a pci-x card in the only slot available and sure enough it worked. OK I am now done with Gigabyte motherboards since that is two in a row now. Now to see if I can get my Creative sound card in here. If I use a mobo addon for Usb ports I can take out my pci card and use the pci slot there, crap my Creative card is pci-x so it means buying a pci sound card. I think I will live with the onboard and I am officially done now. That leaves me with Msi which I am fine with as they are getting better and better as I will not use Asus any more either as I have had way too many issues with those. I still have never had a bad Biostar board and am going back 13 years on that call. One more issue is when I shut down the power led light and hard drive light stay on. On opening the case this AM I discovered the cpu fan still running. pulling the power plug didn't help and throwing the breaker didn't before that. So I tossed out the Seasonic 650 watt Psu and replaced it with a brand new Seasonic 620 I had just gotten in thanks to the special I noted here a few days ago and that ended the cpu fan issue but not the red and blue light after shut down. I will also ignore that. The last Intel Gigabyte board did the same thing with the power led so I guess that's just another issue with Gigabyte boards now.

Well obviously then that is what happened. I think Pete is saying run Kill Disk or something like that, not just reformat and reinstall Server. If he isn't let me suggest that Bob as that should remove any trace of this as that also removes the boot sector and does a low level format.

Well that sounds better and you could not be better protected. I would believe you are that careful but I think Cindy is right, I would get Pete involved here and their knowledge is more current than ours normally.

Unfortunately you are right and that is the only reason I am there ever (which isn't much).

Wow I would feel totally violated if something like that happened to me. Lets hope whoever this is isn't on any of your other servers. You need to seriously sweep all your servers with a really good security software for this. I would try Nod32 Endpoint server version as it sounds like there is a keylogger somewhere Bob and just taking the server off line may not stop this. Server environment is one place I would not even debate the best possible security software. BTW I would really chill with server 2012 while I have no personal experience with it, I have some pro friends who bitch endlessly about that upgrade and all of them went back to 2008R2.

Just a cost of doing business, think of the people saved from that pollution for all those hours!

Welcome aboard N3, we think this will be the place for all of us!

Yeah we have had that before with floppy disks.

Yeah I never get away with it....I thought I got cut a break.

Well it was nice while it lasted but today I began my reinstall of Windows. I thought it was my imagination but one of the things that usually prevents such an easy install is a screwed up networking component and just ran a speedtest only to see 11Mbps followed by 4 mbps. My laptop with the same cable connection is getting 60 and so are 3 other pcs in here. Back into computer Hell I go.