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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/18 08:13:48
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Zaskar
Ok Tested it, 2.40 semi works.
On my E759 I cant get it to show the 2 separate Realtek NIC ports in the ESC boot menu or in bios boot options. I tested it on Bios 82 with the stock RaiD Rom, and with the newest one your currently using. I also tested it with Bios 78.
You can however still boot the PXE by selecting the Legacy LAN option in bios.
You can Select it in the ESC Menu also but you have to change the boot options inside the 2 PXE boot rom menus (which as you said are hidden) since Legacy Lan wont show in the ESC menu if the PXE roms are set to let the Bios choose (I think in bios 78 you had both Realtek NIC's AND Legacy LAN in the menu though) , atleast one of them has to have the boot option changed to let Legacy Lan show.
That kinda tells me that its not working properly since it seems to be trying to work, if this was how it was supposed to be then I kind of doubt that you would need to disable the non existent boot option to get the Legacy Lan backup to work.
Im assuming the Legacy LAN PXE option is one you see, or are you actually seeing both Realtek ports? Or is this tested on a different board then the E759? I think I remember you saying you had another one also.
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StillLearning: do you have any additional cards installed aside from the graphics card? I got that garble when I have my Intel NIC installed and then also enable the onboard NIC's PXE boot rom, I just disable the onbord Boot rom to fix it. They both take up too much memory together I think.
Hey, I just retested again, and you are right actually. I apologize for sending you on a wild goose chase. I actually made a mistake in thinking that I flashed to the BIOS with the 2.40 PXE ROM but I was actually still using 2.39 (I have two custom BIOS made, one with 2.39 PXE and one with newer 2.40 PXE). I can confirm that what you said above is the case on my E759. 2.39 does not show (same problem in 2.40) the Shift+F10 prompt, but you can still enter configuration for both Realtek instances and can see them in the ESC menu. With 2.40, you can enter configuration for one only and by default you cannot see the ESC menu boot options. I am not sure what changed between the two. On a side note, I want to digress to the new RAID ROM and drivers. I have since imaged my OS drive, SE the RAID array, and restored, and the performance gains are pretty serious when compared to the same setup with the original 10.5.0.744 combined with 10.5.0.1015 RST drivers. See for yourself below. The first screenshot is 10.5.0.744 RAID ROM with 10.5.0.1015 RST drivers, the second is 10.5.0.1034 RAID ROM with 10.5.0.1034 RST drivers, both following a secure erase and re-image.  
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/18 10:28:54
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Thanks for verifying that for me, good to know its not just mine acting different. Its odd how it actually does work in the end though if you change the default "Network boot using PnP/BEV (BBS)" to "Network boot using interrupt 18h" (maybe its 19h, i forget. Whichever one says it will let the Bios choose). It relinquishes the control to the Bios's built in Legacy Lan option, which does the same thing as picking the first Realtek NIC in the ESC boot menu. (I dont think there is a way to boot the second NIC with Legacy Lan)
So it seems something is just different with either how this one sends the bootable device information to the bios, or maybe a bug with the new option rom and this realtek NIC chipset. I got it working fine on an older P45 board, but it used the other 64kb PXE/RPL package so its not really the same, probably a different Realtek chip also.
I was able to enter both PXE config menus, to get to the second one I just enter the first immediately, then exit and re enter. When you exit the first the second one loads by itself letting you enter it easily.
As for that increase in performance from the newest Raid Rom, that's a pretty insane bump in write speed!
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/18 10:41:12
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Zaskar: humm, I do have a port multipler sata card, used for my eSata DVD tower. I think it's also a raid card, but I thought I had that ROM shut off. Have had it in the machine for some time and never experienced this event. Don't roms sit in separate spaces? I'll check it out though, thanks for the reply! StillLearning [Update] Removed all cards but graphics, one 260. PXE off. No Change, Bios 77 does it also. Really need help EVGA on whats causing this. Also could you please post hash and/or checksum values on the downloads. StillLearning.....but need a Professor now.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 08:55:59
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@StillLearning - on a off-shoot chance, did you try re-seating your BIOS chip?
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 09:30:18
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@dejanhn
I tried three brand new bios chips.
1 - bought with 82 burnt
1 - downloaded 82 and machine updated.
1 - I burnt ( 82 ) with my external programmer
All three have the same hash. All three show the same strange characters/symbols.
77 does the same thing, so if no one else has this problem on a 759 Classified Limited, there must be something goofy with my machine.
I would try a different Vid card if I had one.
Maybe it something with that, but is displays everthing else fine.
EVGA any ideas.
Thx
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 09:32:14
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@dejanhn
I tried three brand new bios chips.
1 - bought with 82 burnt
1 - downloaded 82 and machine updated.
1 - I burnt ( 82 ) with my external programmer
All three have the same hash. All three show the same strange characters/symbols.
77 does the same thing, so if no one else has this problem on a 759 Classified Limited, there must be something goofy with my machine.
I would try a different Vid card if I had one.
Maybe it something with that, but is displays everthing else fine.
EVGA any ideas.
Thx
Bruce
So if you bring your system down to the basics, CPU, one stick of DRAM, GPU, BIOS defaults loaded, it still does the same thing?!
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 09:53:08
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Pop out your PCIE/PCI cards except for your video card and check. I had those exact symbols showing when I enable the onboard PXE when I also have my Intel NIC card installed with its PXE rom loaded. the ESC menu's listing for either the Onboard or Intel's PXE has those symbols, and inside the bios under the area where you chose to enable or disable the onboard PXE has those symbols. Disable 1 and the problem is gone (which is not an issue as you really don't need or want both active, I disable the onboard NIC all together) What causes it is a good question though, is it running out of allotted ROM space? I would think (but could be very wrong) that a PCIE Raid card would have a bigger Rom loaded, and many people use those with these boards without issue (whether or not they also have the Realtek PXE enabled is unknown). Maybe they are trying to use the same resources? I really don't know, but other then a nagging curiosity it hasn't been much of a problem for me since I would never have both enabled at the same time even if they worked flawless together. Maybe you have a similar issue. If taking out your addon cards fixes it, try disabling the onboard ICH10r and jmicron (or marvell, depending on board) controller and see if it works fine. if it does enable 1 or the other to find the conflict.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 10:43:08
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Zaskar
Ok Tested it, 2.40 semi works.
On my E759 I cant get it to show the 2 separate Realtek NIC ports in the ESC boot menu or in bios boot options. I tested it on Bios 82 with the stock RaiD Rom, and with the newest one your currently using. I also tested it with Bios 78.
You can however still boot the PXE by selecting the Legacy LAN option in bios.
You can Select it in the ESC Menu also but you have to change the boot options inside the 2 PXE boot rom menus (which as you said are hidden) since Legacy Lan wont show in the ESC menu if the PXE roms are set to let the Bios choose (I think in bios 78 you had both Realtek NIC's AND Legacy LAN in the menu though) , atleast one of them has to have the boot option changed to let Legacy Lan show.
That kinda tells me that its not working properly since it seems to be trying to work, if this was how it was supposed to be then I kind of doubt that you would need to disable the non existent boot option to get the Legacy Lan backup to work.
Im assuming the Legacy LAN PXE option is one you see, or are you actually seeing both Realtek ports? Or is this tested on a different board then the E759? I think I remember you saying you had another one also.
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StillLearning: do you have any additional cards installed aside from the graphics card? I got that garble when I have my Intel NIC installed and then also enable the onboard NIC's PXE boot rom, I just disable the onbord Boot rom to fix it. They both take up too much memory together I think.
Hey, I just retested again, and you are right actually. I apologize for sending you on a wild goose chase. I actually made a mistake in thinking that I flashed to the BIOS with the 2.40 PXE ROM but I was actually still using 2.39 (I have two custom BIOS made, one with 2.39 PXE and one with newer 2.40 PXE). I can confirm that what you said above is the case on my E759. 2.39 does not show (same problem in 2.40) the Shift+F10 prompt, but you can still enter configuration for both Realtek instances and can see them in the ESC menu. With 2.40, you can enter configuration for one only and by default you cannot see the ESC menu boot options. I am not sure what changed between the two. On a side note, I want to digress to the new RAID ROM and drivers. I have since imaged my OS drive, SE the RAID array, and restored, and the performance gains are pretty serious when compared to the same setup with the original 10.5.0.744 combined with 10.5.0.1015 RST drivers. See for yourself below. The first screenshot is 10.5.0.744 RAID ROM with 10.5.0.1015 RST drivers, the second is 10.5.0.1034 RAID ROM with 10.5.0.1034 RST drivers, both following a secure erase and re-image.
Those scores look pretty sweet. I would love to get a copy of the bios with the newest raid rom if you have the time. I don't really care about the PXE rom since I never use it. I have an E758. I wish EVGA would update the bios with the newest roms and Intel AHCI.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 11:34:25
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Zaskar
Pop out your PCIE/PCI cards except for your video card and check.
I had those exact symbols showing when I enable the onboard PXE when I also have my Intel NIC card installed with its PXE rom loaded. the ESC menu's listing for either the Onboard or Intel's PXE has those symbols, and inside the bios under the area where you chose to enable or disable the onboard PXE has those symbols.
Disable 1 and the problem is gone (which is not an issue as you really don't need or want both active, I disable the onboard NIC all together)
What causes it is a good question though, is it running out of allotted ROM space? I would think (but could be very wrong) that a PCIE Raid card would have a bigger Rom loaded, and many people use those with these boards without issue (whether or not they also have the Realtek PXE enabled is unknown).
Maybe they are trying to use the same resources? I really don't know, but other then a nagging curiosity it hasn't been much of a problem for me since I would never have both enabled at the same time even if they worked flawless together.
Maybe you have a similar issue. If taking out your addon cards fixes it, try disabling the onboard ICH10r and jmicron (or marvell, depending on board) controller and see if it works fine. if it does enable 1 or the other to find the conflict.
I tried that, as per your suggestion in your first welcome reply. No PXE enabled, No other cards but video in box. The darn thing still does it. I guess I'll try to disable the two Nic's, disable is the top entry? I ask because the garbage is also in that screen. Kinda need a good picture map now of the 82 bios layout. Thanks for your further help. StillLearning
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 12:37:59
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Oh, didn't catch the update!
Hmm, thats not good then. Im asuming you tried resetting the cmos? If not try that after disabling the onboard NIC ports (might as well try setting the ICH10r controller to IDE and disabling the 2 jmicron ones also). But if that fails I cant see much else possibly being wrong aside from a faulty board.
1 thing to note is that oddly enough, the settings inside the Realtek PXE rom actually persist through bios flashes and CMOS clears, maybe something is up in there. But that shouldnt even matter if its disabled.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 17:26:55
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Well I just updated by BIOS on the E770 for the first time in my life successfully using the USB method! haven't notice any differences in anything yet but I'm hoping it will have fixed a little boot issue I was having with SSD.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/19 22:02:53
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Zaskar
Oh, didn't catch the update!
Hmm, thats not good then. Im asuming you tried resetting the cmos? If not try that after disabling the onboard NIC ports (might as well try setting the ICH10r controller to IDE and disabling the 2 jmicron ones also). But if that fails I cant see much else possibly being wrong aside from a faulty board.
1 thing to note is that oddly enough, the settings inside the Realtek PXE rom actually persist through bios flashes and CMOS clears, maybe something is up in there. But that shouldnt even matter if its disabled.
Well, my friend, you seemed to have been on to something. If I disable both of the JMicron's 362 & 363 then the garbage gets "FLUSHED" If I leave either one Enabled. The garbage characters come back. Now why does this happen? I'll need to think about this one Back in a few days... have to go out of town... Thanks for all the help. At least I have an idea. StillLearning
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/21 03:23:34
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If you're trying to run raid-array is best to use raid setting in Bios and forget about AHCI.I have read that some boards don't take kindly t it.
Some operating systems, notably Windows Vista and Windows 7, do not configure themselves to load the AHCI driver upon boot if the drive controller was not in AHCI mode at the time of installation. This can cause failure to boot with an error message if the SATA controller is later switched to AHCI mode. For this reason, Intel recommends changing the drive controller to AHCI or RAID before installing an operating system.[1] On Windows Vista and Windows 7, this can be fixed by booting in legacy mode and changing the registry.[3] A similar problem can occur on Linux systems if the AHCI driver is built as a module, rather than included in the kernel, as it may not be loaded into the initrd (initial RAM disk) created when in legacy mode; the workaround is to build a new initrd containing the AHCI module
Hope this helps.
Pass this around to all your friends....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
Hi, I do not use RAID but I often hotplug SATA disk. I will apply the fix for the iaStorV service (currently at 3), the Msahci service are already set at 0. It's wierd because I did not have this issue with bios # 77 and I dont have reinstaled the OS (Win7x64) only a bios flash. Thanks for your help, I keep you informed.
post edited by herrdarkshadow - 2011/05/21 03:25:45
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/22 11:30:18
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Zaskar
Oh, didn't catch the update!
Hmm, thats not good then. Im asuming you tried resetting the cmos? If not try that after disabling the onboard NIC ports (might as well try setting the ICH10r controller to IDE and disabling the 2 jmicron ones also). But if that fails I cant see much else possibly being wrong aside from a faulty board.
1 thing to note is that oddly enough, the settings inside the Realtek PXE rom actually persist through bios flashes and CMOS clears, maybe something is up in there. But that shouldnt even matter if its disabled.
Well, my friend, you seemed to have been on to something.
If I disable both of the JMicron's 362 & 363 then the garbage gets "FLUSHED"
If I leave either one Enabled. The garbage characters come back.
Now why does this happen?
I'll need to think about this one
Back in a few days... have to go out of town...
Thanks for all the help. At least I have an idea.
StillLearning
Are you using a PCI-E RAID controller by some chance?
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/22 12:58:09
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/23 18:13:41
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dejanh when new bios?
You asking for a new version with the updated ROM?
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/25 09:31:56
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No, I asked a version of bios that corrects the last bugs of motherboard!! ?
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/25 09:50:34
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No, I asked a version of bios that corrects the last bugs of motherboard!! ?
dejanh doesn't work for EVGA. I've been waiting for some updates from Jacob for quite a while myself...
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/25 12:08:43
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No, I asked a version of bios that corrects the last bugs of motherboard!! ?
dejanh doesn't work for EVGA.
I've been waiting for some updates from Jacob for quite a while myself...
Lol, indeed. I guess somebody was bound to make this mistake sooner or later  hahahaha
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/25 13:11:59
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I knew that did not work for EVGA, but since I always head the bios, I wanted to know ifthere was something new!
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/27 08:36:50
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I've noticed that after flashing and after I enter the bios and reset the boot order and save that the next boot doesn't reflect the changes that I just saved. I have to reenter bios again and correct the boot order and save once again for it to be right.
Did you clear CMOS after flashing, with the PSU on and computer off, hold the button for at least 10 secs? Did you load a BIOS profile that was saved by a different BIOS? If you cleared CMOS, and didn't load a previously saved BIOS profile: That means either you are setting the boot order for a removable drive, and sometimes it is removed during boot, or your CMOS batt is dead. Check your batt level in E-Leet or BIOS "health status" and you will see it is near or below 3V. Full batt is 3.3V or more. If you had started a thread, it would not have taken two weeks to get this answer. I only check this thread every couple of weeks, and won't check it again when a new BIOS comes out.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/27 18:39:25
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haha always wondered what the vbat was. thanks HW
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/28 13:39:48
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Hello: I do not know if this is the right forum for me to post this issue, but I shall try here and perhaps at least one other place on these forums.
I just purchased and installed an X58 FTW3, to replace a wonderful ASUS P5WD2 Premium that had given great service for 8 years before losing all USB functions 2 weeks ago.
Since instaling the X58 FTW3, I have had nothing but problems, which apparently center around the Marvell 88SE 9128 SATA controller for (red) SATA ports 6 and 7.
I had hooked up all my SATA dives to the X58 FTW3 before I did the first boot.
THe POST only got to the "Varifying DMI Values..." message, and then I got an error message "BOOT DISK FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND REBOOT".
I had used all the default BIOS settings (with my Hitachi 500Gb IDE with my existing copy of WXP Pro on it), as the first boot disk.
After trying to boot a few more times, always getting the same results, I started unplugging drives before each boot attempt.
Fortunately, the first 2 I unplugged were from the red SATA ports 6 and 7.
Immediately on the nest boot, the BIOS went through a full POST and opened into my WXP Pro.
I installed all the drivers from the EVGA CD and tried again.
Same results. If SATA Ports 6 and 7 had drives attached, the POST failed at exactly the same place. If there were no drives attached, the POST went through perfectly.
Next I tried to update the BIOS and SATA6 and SATA firmware (Marvell) drivers.
The ISO images online (and here) all appear blank when they are opened, as if there were no files in them.
However, I used Daemon Tools Pro to burn the 3 images onto CDs.
I followed all the instructions online and here for inserting the CD, entering the BIOS, setting the defaults, setting the CDROM as the first boot disk, saving, etc.
The BIOS went through the POST without booting from the CD.
Just as a test, I inserted my WXP CD into the drive and restarted.
This time the BIOS found the WXP CD and started to load the setup files.
Just to be sure, I stopped that task, inserted a Norton GHOST rescue CD that I had burned with Daemon Tools Pro, and restarted.
Again, the BIOS found the Norton GHOST rescue CD and started to load the Windows boot files.
I stopped that task, and e-mailed EVGA tech support.
They responded by suggesting that rather than use Del at the beginning of the boot process to get into the BIOS menu, I should use Esc.
When I try that, the POST only gets to the screen "Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter - PIOS Version 1.0.0.1012. Initializing...." and then it just hangs forever (as it is hanging now, even as I am writing this on another computer).
So what is the problem?
It must have something to do with the Marvell 88SE9128 controller.
But why does the BIOS not recognize your image files that I burned onto the CDs?
I should also say that if I wait until WXP Pro is through loading, if I then plug my SAYA drives into Ports 6 and 7, Windows installs them as if they were external plug-n-play drives, and they are fully functional.
EVGA tech support has not provided any substantive suggestions other than "update the BIOS".
Well, that would be great if the ISO images i burned onto the 3 CDs were recognized during POST, but they are not, for reasons unknown.
The X58 FTW3 seems like a nice motherboard, but I have already wasted about 8 hours trying to fix these issues, and I have gotten nowhere.
Any assistance you can render would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Marc
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/28 16:28:53
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Use SATA 2 instead of the other ones. Also try to flash the bios through USB see if it works. It's simple and you won't waste CDs. Good luck.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/28 20:00:08
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Marc it sounds like you have gone through the proper procedures. You didn't say that you set the proper HD boot order before attempting boot, but I have to assume you did, sounds like you really know what you are doing. Unfortunately, several ppls on these forums have had unfixable probs W/the new Marvell SATA III ports. Most of these have just quit using them. I wonder how many ppls that aren't using those yet just don't know they won't work for them when they will try in the future. 
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/29 13:26:14
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i think i may have found a bug that's been in the bios since bios 64. (edit fixed link) (shortened version) i've been trying to figure out why my computer has been freezing quite a bit lately. so me and a few people on the forum narrowed it down to my graphics card(gtx 470) freezing my computer. so i decided to go back to a bios that released when i put my computer together because i ran the same tests on my computer at that time and it never froze. so i looked up the bios release dates and chose bios 59 and re-flashed my bios. my computer is not freezing anymore even when running the same test that freezes it in 15mins or less on bios 82. my computer has been freezing since bios 64 but its way worse in 82 the freezes are similar every time. here's the link to my thread its better explained there: ( http://forums.evga.com...m=1034207&mpage=1 ) (
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/29 17:47:10
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I've found that freezing can often be attributed to undervolted or bad ram.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/30 02:36:58
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lol i tested the ram it was good and other people told me were to set my voltages and it still froze after that on bios 82.
on bios 59 with everything on auto no freezes doing the same stuff that freezes in 82 lol
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/30 03:26:29
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lol i tested the ram it was good and other people told me were to set my voltages and it still froze after that on bios 82.
on bios 59 with everything on auto no freezes doing the same stuff that freezes in 82 lol
Try flashing to an older BIOS, like 81. Or reflash 82.
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Re:EVGA X58 Motherboards - BIOS 82 Released
2011/05/30 03:39:57
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i re-flashed 82 twice it still froze and 81 has the freezes too (ive been testing a few different bios as well) 64 and newer seem to bug my gtx 470 sc. 59 seems good doing the same things that freeze in 64 and newer. WOW(world of Warcraft) Stutters on some bios as well but on 59 its smooth (this one is hard to explain).
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