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.......
 

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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.

After update the R22 ,I can not get booted on any HDD SSD CD and USB. The Only way is Boot from UEFI. When I finished install a new Windows 7. can not boot from SSD again....................
When I try , it told that  "pdr and gbe doesn't exit"  

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.

If you're complaining about the quality of this motherboard you don't have the experience, and or the patients PC building/modding requires. It bothers me to see the EVGA forums flooded with trolling. When PC building: take your time, be patient, ask professionals you trust and do not troll.
The few chronic problems still with this motherboard is that my external USB 3.0 HDD does not enumerate (become available to Windows) each time Windows boots, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Next the LED temp monitor displays some encrypted code instead of the CPU temp as it should if booting with UEFI.
The first motherboard r1.1 crashed with USB 3.0 problems all the time, this one r1.1.1 doesn't crash at all with USB 3.0 problems but the USB 3.0 HDD still isn't available to Windows every time Windows boots up. Next the system becomes more unstable when vdroop is enabled.
 

hello  ivy on Z68 ftw
 


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I really hope they can fix the R22 bios to support more cards.   I also had to go back to the A05 bios.
 

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?

there is a way boot up on good bios then when you are booted flip the bios to the bad then run A05