Hello, I read a lot of motherboard problems result in the Nvidia firewall. Is that option in the BIOS, because I never found such an option.

You wont get any firewall options in your BIOS it is not a hardware option that comes with your motherboard, at least not to my knowledge are there any m/b's with built in firewall. What exactly is the problem you are having?

Well I no longer have the motherboard but I was getting random BSOD and searched the internet and a lot of other people said they had the same problem but disabled the Nvidia Firewall and it solved it. So I was wondering if that was an option in the BIOS or something because I never seen the Nvidia Firewall, so I am guessing that I never installed it.

Just looked into it further, something I have never seen before but they have actually been incorporating a native firewall on nForce3-based mainboards. So maybe I was in the wrong, could have been a BIOS setting or maybe even a windows based configuration utility you could have downloaded. You learn something new every day as the say...

The nVidia firewall is a hardware firewall included in the nForce3 250Gb chipset. It can be enabled or disabled thru the BIOS. "....it's worth noting here that the firewall in the only native, hardware-accelerated one of its kind. Acceleration should help reduce the firewall's CPU utilization, and NVIDIA is even letting third-party software developers take advantage of the nForce3 250Gb's dedicated firewall hardware. The firewall's hardware components have benefits beyond lower CPU utilization, though. Because it partially resides in hardware, the firewall is enabled instantly when a machine is powered on. Software firewalls that rely on drivers and other programs can only protect a machine after it boots into the OS and all the necessary drivers and programs are loaded, leaving a small window for attacks to take hold." http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/nforce3-250gb/index.x?pg=1 http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/04/20/new_and_improved/

Ok well this mobo used nForce4 technology so I assume it also was in BIOS somewhere?

1st line: "....it's worth noting here that the firewall in the only native, hardware-accelerated one of its kind" It was only available in the nForce3 250Gb