RATS.  Further testing gives me this:
 
1) VT still double-pumps when doing a cold start from AC mains off.
 
2) S3 sleep hangs going to sleep - fans running HD LED solid on.
 
I'm going back to the 74 that this board came with or maybe back to my fave: SZ2Z.
[edit] OK, I'm back at 74.  Cores are warmer.  To answer my earlier question: SpeedStep defaults OFF in 74, and ON in 82.  No big.

Bummer.
Z.

zoltanthegypsy

RATS.  Further testing gives me this:

1) VT still double-pumps when doing a cold start from AC mains off.

2) S3 sleep hangs going to sleep - fans running HD LED solid on.

I'm going back to the 74 that this board came with or maybe back to my fave: SZ2Z.
[edit] OK, I'm back at 74.  Cores are warmer.  To answer my earlier question: SpeedStep defaults OFF in 74, and ON in 82.  No big.

Bummer.
Z.

You might want to start at default BIOS settings for your sleep issue. My OC settings are significantly different (in most cases lower voltages) than with the previous BIOS. The settings I've used for several months resulted in S3 failing.

zoltanthegypsy @mdzcpa, I know it has always double pumped from an AC off boot.  I thought this whole exercise was to fix that...  If it was just to fix a warm boot, what's the point?

Its a huge deal! Double pump from a simple reboot, very likely a common event, is not same as double pump from AC cold boot, an event that has yet to happen for me this year. Note that AC cold boot is different from cold boot.

I have a x58 ftw3 mainboard.
Since the BIOS Update, I have a problem with the Raid System. I can normally create a Raid device, start the windows installation, can select the Raid device, but after the first reboot, he doesn´t start from the raid device, but he screen a error message, that are no boot device.
Before the update that failure wasn´t there.

Since I've always run with VT enabled, I guess I never realized that the VT issue was separate from the mains-off cold boot double pump.  My bad, but a disappointment none the less.
 
@Yaboze, I guess my "typical" is not your "typical" :)  I cold boot from mains-off ( UPS off) every morning.  Hard shutdown to mains off every evening.  I rarely warm boot - or mains on reboot if that's a better description - unless rebooting to Linux or Solaris for hardware and driver testing, or for the occasional update.
 
There's a bunch of stuff attached to my machine that gets turned off via UPS along with the main box getting its mains shut off.  That's for convenience mostly, but also to try to keep the hardware healthy.
 
  Around here power is very unreliable, and prone to brown outs, outages, surges, and spikes.   And occasionally the high-voltage lines drop onto the local lines and make an expensive mess.  I keep the mains off when the stuff isn't in use as an extra layer of protection.  Probably should pull the plug out of the wall...
 
Thanks all for straightening out my misunderstanding.  It just makes me realize there's no point in chasing BIOS updates.  I'll just stick with the one that keeps S3 working, and live with the double pump.
 
Later,
Z.

Woah! Ive been off the site for a few months and come back and see BIOS 82?! Im still on 73! lol 
 
Now at the time, 73 was the BIOS that was most stable for me at the time for my OC. Can anyone please inform me of what I am possibly missing out that is beneficial to me coming from the 73 BIOS to the 82 BIOS if I were to update them please. Thanks in advance everyone. 

SimC33

Woah! Ive been off the site for a few months and come back and see BIOS 82?! Im still on 73! lol 

Now at the time, 73 was the BIOS that was most stable for me at the time for my OC. Can anyone please inform me of what I am possibly missing out that is beneficial to me coming from the 73 BIOS to the 82 BIOS if I were to update them please. Thanks in advance everyone. 

The biggest improvement would be the updated RAID Rom.

I updated to  8.2 yesterday  --   (from a much older version  ??)
All looks ok,  except,  on BOOT, I  do not see the 8.2 Bios Version displaying as 8.2  as I  would expect, and have seen on most other manufacturer';s motherboards.
 
At the bottom of the Boot Screem,  there is a recent DATE,  but no direct Ref  to  8.2
 
Top of screen repots a Bios version of  6.???   something  (from memory),
 
Is this normal,  and  if so  WHY.
Why does  it not display  the 8.2  as the Bios Version ??
 
Geoff
 

Hi all, maybe was a bios bug problem, I have resolved it. Mounted the gtx 275 on the third pci-e and it function 16x, mounted again on the first pci-e and it function every time at 16x :D
 
For the sound card it not function (yesterday was the last day of life), I don't know why and how she is died :/

Thanks :)
 
Don't know if this is a coincidence but I went from a 3.49Ghz overclock on 1.29v to a 3.81Ghz overclock at 1.23v on bios 82 :thumbsup:

Updated x58 classified 3, bios on default, and adjusted memory timings and volt to manufacture.
System will not sleep.

BIOS 82 Updates: 

• VT Fixes  (not tested)
• Fix spacing on Intel RAID Rom Text  (work well)

 

Hi Jacob,
I've tried everything I know to do but can't get my x58 ftw3 to update the bios. When I reset the bios to default and reboot with the cd, the bios update boots up and the box comes up and says "file name to program" with the name "e768_82.bin" in the file name box and at the bottom the words "please input file name" flashes. I've tried the "enter" button on the keyboard but nothing happens. I've even copied the e768_82.bin file into the iso file and burned to a disk and still wouldn't work.
Don't know what to do.....HELP!!

@Arctucas
 
Now that I think about it I believe it was on a topic for the bios 72 update for x58 motherboards or for the E770.

+1 for E760