Oh crap.. now I just had some issue with SZ2Z that I've never seen before after the PC went to sleep (S1 not S3).. PC would not come out of sleep, so I reset, but then could not boot - BIOS kept giving an error message about resetting CPU or RAM, and in the end I had to reset cmos to be able to boot to windows. Damn **** yo? I never used to have these issues..  maybe I'll go right back to SZ2R where I had higher clocks and did not have a single freeze or BSOD for about 9 months, then I 'upgraded' the BIOS early this year and everything turned to custard since then! Same deal with graphics drivers.. fine up to 186.18, but nothing but problems ever since.
bah!

disable just temporary so i can downgrade the bios?
In the Bios settings or simply pull the plugs?

IT WORKED!!!
Oh my god thank you sooo much
I had an RMA open for this.
OH THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

Last thing.
I downgraded the bios to E760S61J.bin 
is that ok? i am using i7 950 and corsair 1600mhz ddr3 dominator.
Thank you

thank you sooo much...
you are the best!!!!

lam_das

2 weeks and counting...c'mon folks! We need fixes!

Don't hold your breath.  Maybe in the next BIOS release.

chizow

Same problems persist on this release, I'll be sticking with S61J for the 760:
 
Problem #1
PCIe x16 Slot #2 and #4 still drop PCIe bandwidth to x8 for Slot #1 and Slot #3.  Just need a confirmation at this point whether this is a known bug or working as intended and the FAQ on PCIe bandwidth is incorrect and needs to be corrected or not:

http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmmain.aspx?faqid=58513

E760 - X58 SLI Classified

PCIe slot 1: 16x (8x if slot 2 is filled*)
PCIe slot 2: 8x
PCIe slot 3: 16x (8x if slot 4 is filled*)
PCIe slot 4: 8x
 
*not affected when running 1x PCIe cards like a sound card or Killer NIC

Again, this is incorrect as an x1 card in PCIe slot 2 drops PCIe slot 1 bandwidth down to 8x as seen in the picture below.  Verified with S61D, S61J and now BIOS 44:



Again, just need a simple confirmation whether this is something that's a bug or working as intended so I can stop wasting time checking it every BIOS release and look for alternative solutions, like custom chipset cooling.  Ideally, EVGA could release a Classified North Bridge cooler without the bump preventing larger x1 cards in the top x1 slot, or sell Classified coolers so we can modify it ourselves.

 
So this problem still persists? Even a x1-card in any of the x8-Slots pulls down both x16-slots to x8?
It is said that only >x1-cards in an x8-slot pull down the corresponding x16-slot to x8. NOT both x16-slots, and not at all with x1-cards!


The reason I bought a X58-platform is the massive amount of PCIe-lanes, to be able to feed my graphics- and RAID-cards!


I, too, would be interested in a definitive answer!

How do i exactly check which bios i have? I flashed the latest bios but i am not sure if i did it correctly.
I checked the 'Mainboard' Tab in CPU-Z but it says Version 6.00 PG, Date 3/11/2010. Is that right?

lam_das

twwix

How do i exactly check which bios i have? I flashed the latest bios but i am not sure if i did it correctly.
I checked the 'Mainboard' Tab in CPU-Z but it says Version 6.00 PG, Date 3/11/2010. Is that right?

Can we please fix this thing for good? For once! You should not require to reboot just to find the BIOS version. All other vendors report their BIOS version correctly in all the programs but EVGA has this generic crap in there. Can someone at evga make this simple change? Put the right version at the right bytes in BIOS.

So, i do have to go into the bios to check its version then?

lam_das

twwix

lam_das

twwix

How do i exactly check which bios i have? I flashed the latest bios but i am not sure if i did it correctly.
I checked the 'Mainboard' Tab in CPU-Z but it says Version 6.00 PG, Date 3/11/2010. Is that right?

Can we please fix this thing for good? For once! You should not require to reboot just to find the BIOS version. All other vendors report their BIOS version correctly in all the programs but EVGA has this generic crap in there. Can someone at evga make this simple change? Put the right version at the right bytes in BIOS.

So, i do have to go into the bios to check its version then?

No, you have to scan the screen in that brief period where it shows the bios version during post. I did not find it anywhere else. You blink, you miss!

Well, that's rather stupid. Why haven't they addressed this yet?

You know, if you have Everest installed, you can see your bios build in there , Right?
 

If you hit pause/break button during boot, that will hold that screen so you can actually look at what it says rather than blinking and missing it..  for Everest Ultimate on Linux, there's a bunch of links to downloads on google - don't know how safe they are.. Did you check the Lavalys forums?.

Interesting

I assume i got the latest bios. It's labeled as v6.00PG during post too.

lam_das

Well, that's rather stupid. Why haven't they addressed this yet?

There is a lot of stuff EVGA hasn't addressed yet! And this board's been out for more than a year now.

I don't see many changes coming from them. New BIOS's typically contain a trivial fix or two, nothing major. They tried one major fix (VT double pump) in this BIOS and fell flat on their face! So, their BIOS dept looks severely lacking.

EVGA's BIOS struggles continue to baffle and frustrate me (and a whole bunch of other folks). Particularly given the general excellence of their products and support otherwise.

Their flash procedure is fragile (IMNSHO) compared to other MFGRs.  It seems to take forever to address the basic stuff (S3 sleep anyone?) and there are a bunch of fiddly details that would be nice to address, like OPTIONAL added boot delay to allow time to hit ESC or DEL, (eeek! he wants MORE delay????) and so on.  AND Vt-d would be nice...

I wonder how much of this comes from trying to cram an entire BIOS image into something that would fit on a floppy? That would really handcuff the BIOS wizards, or so it would seem to me.  Time to expand the image and move on ...

Z.

One thing I really liked about my old Asus board was that you can press F2 on post and enter the Award BIOS programmer. Then you'd simply stick in a thumb drive with the file on it and it had a predetermined drive letter for the thumb drive. Type in the path and let it rip.

You never had to make a bootable floppy, CD or USB drive to flash the bios, just needed the file copied to the flash drive. Nice and easy. It also had a thing to restore the default bios if it failed, although I never had to use that part of it.

I guess my only complaint about this pre-Gulftown BIOS is the double-pump on VT, but I hardly reboot, so it's ok for now. I'm definitely holding off for a few days when the next one comes out.

To play devils advocate, at least EVGA updates the bios frequently. My not-so-old Asus MB's latest BIOS is from 2008 with a beta driver that's over a year old and hasn't been updated.

The build quality of this board seems much better than the Asus. I'm not getting any coil whine and the layout is good. My Asus P5K squealed like crazy, it drove me nuts.

My next GPU will probably be a EVGA 480 when the price drops.

I'm a fan......