Im using a z68 sli micro board and i cannot flash my bios. Every time i start windows just shuts down. Not idea why. Any help?
 
Let me be a little more specific. Im running windows 8. I download the proper bios. Click on fptwin64.bat. I press "Y" and hit enter. My computer restarts. Nothing happened. 
 
I originally thought it was because im using raid0, but i installed another copy of windows a different ssd and tried. Same thing. I have no idea what to do at this point.

If you're having issues flashing be sure to follow this link to install. Works more often than just running the file straight from the folder.
 
http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmmain.aspx?faqid=59335

I'm not having run into windows after update.

hey guys... i have this question.... if i upgrade the Bios of my Z68 sli micro with the newest R22 Can i install the i7 3770k and run it without problems or it will not work?????

I don't see why not

Thanks a lot Now i'm back to A05 .

rsabatino

yo guys if you want to overclock any z68 boards and you are using sandy bridge not ivy bridge use the A05 bios. now this is for sandy bridge if you have ivy download the latest

this is the best for overclocking sandy bridge at normal settings my cpu does not go over 28 C over clocking is easy fallow the p67 over clocking guide. with this bios with air cooling I can get a stable 4.5 ghz      that's my rig as proof xmp profile set at 1.

rsabatino

yo guys if you want to overclock any z68 boards and you are using sandy bridge not ivy bridge use the A05 bios. now this is for sandy bridge if you have ivy download the latest
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?&m=1252762&mpage=1
this is the best for overclocking sandy bridge at normal settings my cpu does not go over 28 C over clocking is easy fallow the p67 over clocking guide. with this bios with air cooling I can get a stable 4.5 ghz   http://www.modsrigs.com/detail.aspx?BuildID=29493   that's my rig as proof xmp profile set at 1.

 
The release notes for this new BIOS says it adds Ivy Bridge support, not that it degrades support for Sandy Bridge. Furthermore, A05 also had a major bug in it that caused Code 69 errors at POST every 2 of 3 times I booted up. That was a bug that was acknowledges elsewhere in these forums and this new release is the only update we got since then. This isn't good enough. I don't want to have to choose between two unstable scenarios. I bought a board that's supposed to be overclock friendly and honestly, I've never had problems like this with boards from bigger manufacturers.

well my system usually around 28c with the old bios. with the new bios at least 10 to 20 degrees more and inability to overclock because of the heat. with a05 I can get the cpu up 4.5ghz on air cooling no problems or codes.

This bios can handle with 32gb of ram?
I use some heavy software and 16gb come to heir limits....

Caps lock?.....
Too bad for you now i'm stable at 5,8Ghz with my I7 2600K...

hello  every  one, whats  best  bios  for  evga  Z68  FTW,  using  sb cpu  for  overclocking  it, some  bios  will  not  go  past  4.2  but  cpu-z  says  its  at  4.8  an  thats  not  true,  old  days  x58  was  the  best   an  I  still  use  my  x58   love  it......some  of  the  new  evga  bios  just  flat  out   a   joke.......
 

Honestly I have had this board since the z68 was released. the z68 is still usless from EVGA. EVGA should just give us all refunds. This should fall under the lemon laws.

agreed that evga should either give us refunds or a discount on an item. this is just too much hassle for a board that I paid over $200 for.

hello  ivy on Z68 ftw
 


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Hi errbody.
 
I'm currently rebuilding my rig with a custom watercooling setup and I have a eVGA Z68 SLI with bios 105 (A05) with a 2500k that was constantly freezing when idle, so I decided to flash the new R22 bios to see if it would fix it. Seeing that bioses before it also had some changes to the fan headers, I thought I'd maybe get fan control of some of the FOUR PWM headers that have NO fan control. Boy was I wrong...
 
I flashed it according to LVcoyote's DOS guide. Restored optimized defaults and then flashed from USB. It seemed to go fine, simply wrote to flash and then instantly shut down. I removed power from the machine and held the 'Clear CMOS' button down for 10 seconds. Turned it back on, went straight into bios and restored optimized defaults again. Noticed that it took a while to get into bios and the font and settings had changed quite a bit. Looked around the new bios, memory timing settings were not in a straight line, sort of scattered around the area where they are and when I tried to open the Intel ME settings, it gave me an error, said something about being unable to load a module or something. And froze. Rebooted and went back into bios to set the SATA controller to RAID, so it would start Windows, noticed some nice changes there like a SSD setting, which I chose since I was running a Corsair X64 SSD. Save & reboot and simply got a black screen after POST. Nothing. Hmmmm. Decided to try and boot again to the USB stick, since it should work no matter what the SATA controller was doing. Rebooted, pressed F7, selected the USB stick. Black screen. Nothing. Tried messing around a bit more and at some point it wouldn't even POST, it just gave a 55 error code and beeped. Then I decided that the flash fracked up somehow and switched the BIOS select jumper to the backup setting. Turned it on and thankfully it had the old A04 (104) bios on it. Started fine. Thank god for dual bios!
 
Regarding the freezing, i also suspected the SSD and I am currently testing that out.
 
Now after reading through this board, I've decided that bios A05 might be a better choice but I don't want to flash the backup chip. So...
 
Is there any way to flash the main bios chip while running on the backup chip?