NVIDIA DISASTER: thousands of GPUs faulty

* DRS:

I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium S939 Nforce 4 motherboard. I have the Nvidia
Ethernet driver installed but not MediaShield, etc. To date I have had no
problem with the Nvidia Gigabit Ethernet port.

I had a workstation that used the nForce Professional (workstation
variant of the nForce 4) and also had the Nvidia integrated NIC, and
while I also didn't had any real problems the performance was just bad.

The problem with the nForce 4 lies in the integrated firewall which lead
to data corruption (esp. with ftp) if active. Depending on the BIOS on
some systems it was still active even when the Nvidia Firewall software
hadn't been installed. In these cases it was necessary to install the
software, deactivate the firewall and then remove the software to avoid
these problems.

Benjamin