So I can simply move the bios select jumper back while the computer is running? Then it'll flash the corrupt chip when I run the flasher?
 
I don't mean to sound distrustful, but could anyone else confirm this?
Don't want to permanently brick the board.
 
Also, I switched to a different SSD and it still freezes occasionally while idle. I'm now testing with untouched optimized defaults, to see if a bios setting is causing this.

I had Bios 0.16 on my Z68 SLI at the time I got the board and it was screwed up cause it was freezing on me in the bios even at default settings with post code "A6" which means "No space for Legacy Rom Initialization"

so I used this method here to get 0.22 installed and that solved it for me.
 
It's really nice having multible computers for troubleshooting to work with in situations like this. Thankfully I do.

Ok thanks guys. I'll reflash it tomorrow. Which bios do you recommend for a Sandy 2500k? Is the old A05 still the best?
 
Edit: A05 seems to be missing from eVGA's servers. I can download every other bios except A05. Does anyone have a backup?

Here is the link from the drivers site:
 
http://cdn.evga.com/bios/E685_A05.zip
 
A05 for the Z68 SLI board.
 
Nevermind: tried the link and it does not open.  Maybe someone will see this and fix the download. 
 
You could always call tech support and have them email you the BIOS too.

Ptiwhisky

Hello i came back here (sry for my english) because i'm on a Z68 FTW with the last bios and a I7 3770K.
Since i flashed the bios my usb 3.0 ports are not recognized in windows (everything is fine and up to date).
But in the uefi/bios in my configuration the line "USB3" is tag as "Enabled" so...
What can i do, is this a known problem? 
Thanks.

 
did you install the USB 3.0 drivers?

Ptiwhisky

Yes 2/3 times... Nothing happened except the fact that the driver told me that there is no hardware detected....
I don't know what to do....

Nothing is detected in windows but the option USB3 in the bios is set to "ENABLED" and when i go (always in the bios) to the usb configuration i've got only the usb 2.0 ports that appears...

 
USB 3.0 isn't in USB Configuration, its under Onboard Device Configuration
 
here is a picture I took of it
 
(btw for those wondering, pch azalia is the onboard sound, I been looking around where to disable it and that was it, it confused me at first)
 

 
 

heres the link to a05 topic in the forums   http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?&m=1252762&mpage=1   the links don't work anymore

Ptiwhisky

Yes it's set to ENABLED i said it 3/4 times on this forum ^^
BUT do you saw this usb 3.0 port anywhere in the bios?

 
unfortunate no I don't see usb 3.0 configurable anywhere, I don't have any usb 3.0 devices anyway to test mine.

Anyone?

here's where I am after nearly a year of ownership on this board and a few bios updates.( I'm on r22 now methinks)
 
according to Eleet....
I'm currently running with my i5 2500k:
core speed 4789
multiplier 48
bus speed 99.8
 
So it looks like best I can tell..I've got a pretty fast box now. Ran FC3 at max setting with no issues.
 
Vcore is running auto in bios and is providing 1.47v.seems a little high
 
CPU temps may be a little higher 55-62 at idle then I like, but the system doesn't bsod except in GTA IV with an audio driver issue ( I have to clock down a bit for that game to be solid)
 
it would surely be good to have some detailed explanations of the various readouts in Eleet..I've been able to cob together some basics..but no manual?..please hire an intern to create one....I get conflicting information about the meaning of the temps I'm seeing. I guess if they don't show over 80..I should be ok.
 
The system is typically recording 2 + HDTV channels on a ceton TV card, displaying video from my surveillance cameras on the property and streaming music of video to some other device in the home. I've been able to run this machine up to 18 hours a day with very solid performance
 
frankly speaking I got so tired of redoing all windows authorizations and keys that I gave up making any changes in bios that might brick the system..sure I can reflash, but win7 insists I go thru the pain of all validations for office and all other "protected" software. What happened to windows using the onboard mac address to prove it's the same machine?
 
I did end up putting a pretty big cooler on the CPU only to get away from the noise the stock cooler was making ( and bigger is typically better when it comes to heat sinks. I didn't go water cooling due to costs and the fact that I really dislike getting into the case for anything these days)
 
So in the end a pretty happy customer. I got the board on a newegg deal, but I sure paid the discounted price in aggravation of an end of life product.
 
I really have to stop buying EOL products, but old habits die hard.
 
Well I have at least 18 months left on this as a mainline system before the next greatest thing is flying by my face
 

Howdy!
New to the forum and to evga so, hi.
First off, I LOVE these boards! I bought 2 of them (P67 micro), one for a 2011-WHS and the other for a Win7-MCE. Both boxes needed upgrading
badly, but I didn't want to dump out a lot of money to get it done. This was a great solution for both and I am really happy with this product.
Anyways, not being the sharpest pencil in the box, I went ahead and quickly flashed the bios to the new R22 rev and now I don't have digital
sound on my MCE box anymore. I was using a toslink (sp?) digital wire, but now I got nothing from it and I have already verified the drivers and
the speakers. The analog works just fine so the whole thing is kind of weird. To my best knowledge, the only thing that changed was this bios
upgrade. The digital was working before the upgrade, but not afterwards. 
 
I do have some options here including trying the other bios (thanks for that! I didn't even know that these boards had that LOL). If I can't get
the digital audio working, I can always swap mainboards between the two boxes, but that is a bit of a pain and a solid couple hours of work -
probably half a day. My WHS doesn't need sound so no worries if I put this board I that box. I want to stick with this new bios because it brings
a lot of great stuff. At the time that I bought these boards, Ivy wasn't supported, but I had a hunch that it might be one day. I guess my
biggest question is this - has anyone else had issues with the digital audio after flashing the bios to the R22 rev? I read through some of the
posts and I didn't see anything about audio related to this new bios. 
 
Thanks in advance for any replies. Any insights into this would be greatly appreciated. The only thing that I didn't do when I flashed the bios
was set it to defaults first. I got a bit hasty and missed that part. Not sure if it has anything to do with it or not, but certainly can find
out, I have one more bios chip on this board and 2 on the other. By the way, if anyone has any advice about the digital audio in general, that
would be great. It seems to be set up correctly and I have tinkered with all of the setting available to it. I am running driver rev 2.73 as I
recall. A fairly new driver for the Realtek audio chip. Of course I also tried the previous driver, but this does not appear to be a driver issue
and the device reports that it is working properly. 
 
-Bear
 

Bowenac

tet5uo
My USB 3.0 died on this board the second day I used it.  I could have RMA'd but I didn't feel like  pulling apart a triple GPU/CPU watercooling loop so just kept it without USB 3.0.
 
I've heard anecdotes from other people saying this board had flaky USB 3.0.
 
I don't use my external drive that much that the slower speeds bugged me all that often, and besides that the board has served me. 

Mine sometimes work... most of the time it doesn't. This board is the worst board I have ever purchased and the reason I will never purchase another EVGA motherboard.

Same here worst board I ever had,
 
mine doesn't overclock the cpu properly (it downclocks when it goes above 50% cpu usage, not due to temp but because Turbo Mode is required to be enabled to overclock at all and I hate it, I want it disabled but can't)
 
and my ram speed still can't run at advertised for my modules either..... (get the dreaded coded 55 error whenever I access the memory settings page in the bios)
 
I'm trying to decide if I want to get a different brand board (something on Z77 chipset) to move my 2600K too or just deal with this issue and wait to do a build on a new cpu/board/DDR4 ram based system in the future

directxbear
Hey, I just wanted to check in with an update. After I had updated to R22, I lost my digital sound. When I switched back to the other (older) bios, I got my digital sound back! I was surprised that nobody else had this issue, but it is easily resolved.
 
Bear

I don't use the onboard sound so I never knew about that issue, I have an Asus Xonar DX for my sound card.
 
based on all the problems I've had on this board as well as issues I've seen from others I'm not surprised at all.....
 
I got my board for $30 on bstock and thought I was getting a bargain deal, not gonna make that mistake again, ya end up paying for someone elses problem.

these are the cpus to use on z68   

• P67/Z68 Series Motherboard (LGA 1155)
  • Sandy Bridge
    • Core i7 2700K – 3.50 GHz
    • Core i7 2600K – 3.40 GHz
    • Core i7 2600 – 3.41 GHz
    • Core i5 2500K – 3.30 GHz
    • Core i5 2500 – 3.30 GHz
    • Core i5 2400 – 3.10 GHz
    • Core i5 2300 – 2.80 GHz
    • Core i3 2120 – 3.30 GHz
    • Core i3 2100 – 3.10GHz
    • here is a question it says it works with 2120 what is the t for.

HI,
 
I just upgraded the BIOS and now I can't get any drive to boot. I can get into the BIOS, and tweak settings, but regardless of what I select I can't boot to HDD/SSD/DVD/USB -- I select it (tried both the UEFI and SATA: versions) then I get a blinking cursor and a POST code of AE ("Legacy Boot Event") but nothing else happens.
 
someone mentioned earlier they had got things to work by disableing Intel Speed Step, I tried that, but it hasn't work. 
 
Does anyone else have the idea's to try.
 
My system is using Intel i7-2600K and 4x 4G Corsair 9-9-9-24 1600Mhz (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) RAM