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
 

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.

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

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

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.

Will an EVGA Z68 Sli motherboard with original bios boot an Intel Core i3-2120T Sandy Bridge 35W cpu with G.Skill 16Gb DDR3-1333 CL 9-9-9-24 1.5v memory?  I have the motherboard and memory and need to know if I can buy this cpu.  I also have a core i7-4770K cpu, if that would boot the motherboard in order to update the bios.  I would like to purchase and use the 35W cpu though.  Does anyone know for sure?

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.

I really appreciate your reply.  That was kind to look up the info for me.  But I am still unsure.  I would hate to waste $134 on a cpu that won't work with my Z68.
 
The Intel i3-2120 is a 3.30 GHz - 65W cpu and the Intel i3-2120T is a 2.6 GHz - 35W cpu; both in 32 nanometer die with LGA 1155 socket and Intel HD graphics 2000.
 
I would like to run the low power 2120T, however the EVGA BIOS would need to be able to know to set the speed correctly as well as the voltages.  If EVGA can't confirm that it will work, then I will just assume it won't.  Again, I thank you and apologize for asking a weird question about an older product.  Still a nice motherboard, though.
 

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
 
 

The same thing happened to me with similiar hardware.  Everything worked fine with original A04 BIOS, but it was old.  I flashed successfully to R22.  I can now enter BIOS but get AE error and cannot boot up any device.
 
I don't know why none of the Z68 manuals or giant, fold-out motherboard diagram show or explain the BIOS Sel jumper down by the SATA ports that you can use to switch back to the old version BIOS.
 
I don't know if you can boot up with the old BIOS and then switch the jumper while it's running in order to flash the other BIOS back to a stable firmware.
 
I don't know why users are being told the problem is because of non-ATX v2.1 power supplies and other such amusements.
 
I don't know why evga engineers invested their research into a pulsing red E light instead of the obvious solution of designing a removable BIOS socket that one could exchange.
 
Perhaps I am just uninformed.