Bigfoot Killer E2100 Corrupted

[Element_FBG]

Hello everyone! I recently purchased a X58 Gigabyte G1 Sniper, which has a BigFoot Killer E2100 network chip integrated with its RAM chip, the problem is that I went to update the driver and forgot that I had the overclocking profile activated and ended up giving BSOD, now every time I try to install the driver I have BSOD instantly (both in Windows 11 and 10/7) Is there any way to reverse this? Would a BIOS rewrite on the motherboard help or does it have its own BIOS chip on the Bigfoot?

 

[VuurVOS]

Does the standard Windows driver still work?

 

[Element_FBG]

Does the standard Windows driver still work?

It turns out that it is mandatory to use the bigfoot driver for it to work, since the network is controlled by it, I am having to use a pci wifi card, all because I had a BSOD in the middle of installing the bigfoot network driver.

 

[R-T-B]

I believe the ol' 2100 ran a full linux os under the hood to manage it's TCPIP stack... and if I had to guess, that's exactly whats wrong. Your Bigfoot 2100s linux install is now hopelessly obsolete, probably pwned/malware infected, and running god knows what inside its little linux chip. This was made before we learned how dumb ideas like this where from Internet of Things, and everyones washer/dryer/home security camera/whatever joining public botnets.

I'd just not use that NIC ever again. The 2100s were always a security nightmare lol.

More info from the past on this fairly bonkers card architecture:

Bigfoot Networks Killer 2100 Review | bit-tech.net

Can the latest evolution of the Killer NIC justify its £60 price tag?

bit-tech.net

 

[Element_FBG]

I believe the ol' 2100 ran a full linux os under the hood to manage it's TCPIP stack... and if I had to guess, that's exactly whats wrong. Your Bigfoot 2100s linux install is now hopelessly obsolete, probably pwned/malware infected, and running god knows what inside its little linux chip. This was made before we learned how dumb ideas like this where from Internet of Things, and everyones washer/dryer/home security camera/whatever joining public botnets.

I'd just not use that NIC ever again. The 2100s were always a security nightmare lol.

More info from the past on this fairly bonkers card architecture:

Bigfoot Networks Killer 2100 Review | bit-tech.net

Can the latest evolution of the Killer NIC justify its £60 price tag?

bit-tech.net

I understand that there were security issues, but the issue is that it seems that I corrupted it when I went to install the drivers and right in the middle of the "flash" during the installation I had a BSOD because I had an unstable overclock active.

 

[R-T-B]

I think the bsod would have happened regardless due to outdated firmware, but if you really did partially flash it somehow I really have no idea how to help, sorry. That's way out in undocumented town.

 

[Element_FBG]

I think the bsod would have happened regardless due to outdated firmware, but if you really did partially flash it somehow I really have no idea how to help, sorry. That's way out in undocumented town.

Wow what time they put this kind of "flash" when installing the driver. punching head: punching head:

 

[R-T-B]

Wow what time they put this kind of "flash" when installing the driver. punching head: punching head:

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but yeah those cards seemed like a good idea at the time but really are just a nightmare sadly.

 

[remixedcat]

most of the killer stuff can be bypassed by installing the chipset it was based off of's driver, but I dunno if you can still do that these days... I've done that for one of my family member's laptops (HP gaming) that the wlan was killer wireless and I installed the base chipset it was based on and it worked (qualcomm atheros)

 

[R-T-B]

most of the killer stuff can be bypassed by installing the chipset it was based off of's driver, but I dunno if you can still do that these days... I've done that for one of my family member's laptops (HP gaming) that the wlan was killer wireless and I installed the base chipset it was based on and it worked (qualcomm atheros)

That would be for the later ones that were just a chipset + QoS stack. The 2100s are a whole different animal.

 

[remixedcat]

That would be for the later ones that were just a chipset + QoS stack. The 2100s are a whole different animal.

Well feck that is crappy

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/G1Sniper-rev-10#ov

This board?