Review on ⚡ Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Converged PCI-E x1 Card 2X RJ45 LAN Adapter, 82575EB Chipset, for Desktops, Work Stations, Servers - Low Profile Bracket Included by Sean Young

In this review, I will be open with everyone. Immediately after installing this card, there was a catastrophic computer/power failure that resulted in a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) on my computer. However, I have no hesitation in saying honestly and sincerely that installing this card was the reason why this happened. My apologies to the seller if this is not the case, but I have to be honest about my experience and why I came to this conclusion. I installed this dual ethernet card into my motherboard's PCI Express connector, turned on the computer once after installation, and used my computer for about 30 to 60 minutes. During that time I mostly browsed the web, ran speed tests, looked at adapter driver configuration options, and that was about it. After deciding to tackle another project around the house, I turned off the computer completely and left. I have an HP 8300 CMT with a 3rd Gen Intel i7 vPRO. When I returned to my computer a few hours later, the power light on the front of my computer was blinking red. After pressing the power button, the fans spin for a second or two and then turn off. The red light flashes about 3 times with a pause in between. So the fear and concern that led to MANY bug fixes. I have a Thermal Take 750W PSU which is quite old but worked without any issues. To turn on my computer even after doing the usual simple troubleshooting steps. For example turning off the power supply, holding down the power button x times, removing all peripherals including my EVGA GTX 770 SC graphics card, this network card, the USB receiver for the keyboard and mouse, etc. No luck. So I replaced my PSU with an OEM PSU and removed the CMOS battery. (I think resetting my CMOS/BIOS ended up making the problem worse for me). Finally, my device was turned on and connected to the VGA monitor. I have power on password, secure boot, TPM module, BIOS setting to disable PXE, WoL, NO AMT/ME. My TPM was enabled for virtualization and all advanced options for VT except TxT, the OS that controls my TPM and no PPI enabled. I believe that due to my TPM and secure boot, I caused the BSOD by resetting the BIOS etc., but I believe that a new peripheral (not the first one I've plugged into my motherboard in the last month) is directly for a responsible was red light and no boot situation leading to it. Again, I can't say this is definitely related to this ethernet card failing. However, with my BIOS settings, my outdated 3rd gen Intel vPRO i7, TPM and secure boot, I believe this caused the fatal error, while other cards connected to the same PCI Express port did not . At the moment I'm on the verge of keeping this card and will probably return it because for 2 days I've been trying to solve my BSOD without reinstalling windows and now I'm worried about another PSU failure, or worse, maybe my graphics card. I just can't take that risk. I've tried to give as much honest information as possible about what happened so that others can make their own decision and also to help others out of my mistake with secure boot, TPM, etc. and resetting the BIOS by removing the CMOS battery or cmos reset can learn buttons. I got fed up with the Windows automatic repair, the bcedit command line, chkdsk, sfcscan, diskpart, booting into safe mode (which only came up as an option once) and ended up with Windows. My windows account password didn't log in to backup and restore at all. Even though it was right. (Probably because TPM and OS cannot exchange key IDs) How I solved my problem: I had exceeded the redundancy of my Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD by 10%, so I upgraded Win 10 from the USB path to the unallocated space could install. Disabled secure boot, TPM, disk lock, allowed legacy devices (just in case). Was then able to access my files on partition 3 in Windows. If you don't have unallocated space to install Windows, use command prompt disk to shrink system partition if there is space. Or use an external USB hard drive enclosure on another computer to retrieve files. Or use another form of bootable USB media like GParted, Clonezilla, etc. to clone your hard drive or resize partitions to boot other single windows. *** Only applicable if you have a BSOD that could not be fixed due to an ACPI.Sys error. I hope this review will be useful to someone. PS: The dual ethernet card was packed with bubble wrap in a standard carton. There's no anti-static packaging, and the Ethernet chip is covered by a heatsink, so you can't be sure what it is before you install it.