BIOS 74 Updates:

• Corrects 15x uncore multi shown as 16x in BIOS with Intel 980X

BIOS updating can be accomplished VIA the below methods:

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CD/DVD Installation - Recommended installation method

• Download the correct .iso file below for your motherboard:

         132-GT-E768-KR/TR - EVGA X58 FTW3
         141-BL-E760-A1 - EVGA X58 Classified
         141-BL-E759-A1 - EVGA X58 Classified
         132-BL-E758-A1/TR - EVGA X58 SLI
         121-BL-E756-TR - EVGA X58 SLI Micro

• Use a CD Burning software to burn the .iso image onto a blank CD (Nero, Alochol 120%, MagicISO etc.)
• After it has burned, insert CD and restart the machine, go into the BIOS and load defaults, save and exit
• Now set the CD Drive as the primary boot device, or press escape while the system is booting to select CD as the bootable device.
• After flash remove the CD, and power off PC Completely.
• Turn on the PC and load defaults in BIOS

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USB FLOPPY Installation - Recommended installation method

• Download the correct .exe file below for your motherboard:

         132-GT-E768-KR/TR - EVGA X58 FTW3
         141-BL-E760-A1 - EVGA X58 Classified
         141-BL-E759-A1 - EVGA X58 Classified
         132-BL-E758-A1/TR - EVGA X58 SLI
         121-BL-E756-TR - EVGA X58 SLI Micro

• Insert blank floppy disk into drive and run executable
• After the floppy has written fully, restart the machine, go into the BIOS and load defaults, save and exit
• Now set the USB Floppy as the primary boot device, or press escape while the system is booting to select USB Floppy as the bootable device
• After flash remove the floppy, power off PC Completely
• Turn on the PC and load defaults in BIOS

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USB Flash Drive Installation - Alternate installation method

• Download the correct .bin file below for your motherboard:

         132-GT-E768-KR/TR - EVGA X58 FTW3
         141-BL-E760-A1 - EVGA X58 Classified
         141-BL-E759-A1 - EVGA X58 Classified
         132-BL-E758-A1/TR - EVGA X58 SLI
         121-BL-E756-TR - EVGA X58 SLI Micro

• Visit this thread and follow the installation instructions. (thanks 30h6).

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Warning:
**Do not restart or interrupt your PC while the flash is ongoing
**Do not Flash BIOS on overclocked settings
**It is always recommended to power-down after flash and Clear CMOS

I'll give it a shot when I get my PSU back from RMA on Friday. So far the only bios I can keep my 4.2 overclock on is bios 44.

This has reach the point of being absurd! All I see is updates for the $1000 980x! How about the rest of us 90%? Some fixes for the major problems plaguing this board, maybe?


I used to respect EVGA but seeing as we can't even get any feedback or an admition to there being a problem with the way VT was implemented on this board, I definitely do not anymore.


I',m pretty sure someone will have some lamo response to turn of VT, so here is a preemptive reply to them, I cannot, as I use the feature all the time. 

I am in the market for a new Video Card but seeing as I have just lost yet another Hard Drive due to this VT Bug which by the way no other x58 chipset motherboard has. This will definitely be the last Product I buy from EVGA Period! I will also be telling everyone I know not to purchase anything from this company!


This damned bug has now cost me almost $300. I am mad as hell.

I'm not sure if this is an issue with the 980x, but I think it is. Now, I know that my 980x isn't broken because I replaced it and had the same exact issues. Also replaced the motherboard. But I can't get all memory to show Tri-Channel (I would get 3.99 usable). I suspect it being some sort of BIOS related issue because my previous 920 was able to pick up the memory when placed in the very same slots. 980x however, will not. I've replaced it thinking maybe it was broken, but I highly doubt I'm having the same exact issue with two. If maybe we can work out a BIOS update that can fix known memory issues with 980x processors...that'd be great.

I've added this to the BIOS Changelog for the E759 Classified Limited Edition Board (<-link), in case you want to check out the notes and links for current and past BIOSes, both official and beta (Twenty-four of them and counting...) for this great motherboard.

DarkOneZ13



I am in the market for a new Video Card but seeing as I have just lost yet another Hard Drive due to this VT Bug which by the way no other x58 chipset motherboard has. This will definitely be the last Product I buy from EVGA Period! I will also be telling everyone I know not to purchase anything from this company!


This damned bug has now cost me almost $300. I am mad as hell.

 
Hmmmm.  I have not been in the forums for a while and would have to ask about this one. I have a 760-A1 and have now had to replace THREE hard drives on this board. I am unaware of this issue and was chalking it up to a run of bad hard drives!
I have two WD 300GB VelociRaptors in RAID 0 and two WD 750GB drives in RAID 1. The failure is always on the same drive in SATA 3. After the second failure I replaced the SATA cord to see if that might be the problem but had another one fail just this week in the same SATA port. So far WD has RMA’d them for me without issue, but it’s a pain and shipping is not cheap.
If someone could post a link to this issue I would appreciate it.

 

If you were following the 'not all memory available' threads you would notice it's not a problem that is even close to being limited to 980's, nor 35nm CPUs. We seem to have a large number of ppls with nearly the same compliant, on different boards, with different memory mfgrs, and many different BIOSes. The common theme seems to be they have BIOSes dated this year. But some of them have tried older BIOSes and they failed to fix. Also, some have RMAd mobos, CPUs, and RAM and still not fixed. I don't know what to make of it. Even the Asus R3E has this prob right now.

HalloweenWeed

If you were following the 'not all memory available' threads you would notice it's not a problem that is even close to being limited to 980's, nor 35nm CPUs. We seem to have a large number of ppls with nearly the same compliant, on different boards, with different memory mfgrs, and many different BIOSes. The common theme seems to be they have BIOSes dated this year. But some of them have tried older BIOSes and they failed to fix. Also, some have RMAd mobos, CPUs, and RAM and still not fixed. I don't know what to make of it. Even the Asus R3E has this prob right now.

There are a slew of memory issues I have both encountered and read about. They all have the similar symptom of disappearing RAM but it seems like there are a number of ways this could happen. The 980x one that I referred to, while probably not limited to the 980x, just refuses to use all of the RAM in tri-channel. Even when used in dual channel, the RAM goes away after a shut down. Now, I know that people say they've had the same thing happen on other processors but in my experience, I previously had a 920 which would only lose RAM when overclocking (which the previous BIOS update finally addressed). I wonder if P55 mobos have the same issue. Not that I'd consider going to it, but just curious.

the trl setting included in bios 74 seems to have fixed the ram disappearing,now everything works well for me(for the moment...wait and see)

What is VT ?

dsk98

malvare1

What is VT ?

Its Virtualization Technology and there's a switch in bios to turn it on. For multiple OS applications.

No, it's for running an application in a "Virtual machine." Has little to do with "multiple OS" - when referred to as different multiple OSes. If by multiple SAME OS, then yes, that description applies; but the avg person reading your reply is not thinking you mean this.

It is for when you want to run an app without allowing it full access to your whole real OS system. One would do this to test what a virus would do for instance. It just so happens that other OSes can also be simulated. Think of it as like running a car on a dynamometer to test real-world situations and stress, or to take engine measurements under load. It is running Windows 7 within Windows 7 for instance. Programmers use it for testing debugging their newly made code - without the bugs bringing the whole OS down.

HalloweenWeed

dsk98

malvare1

What is VT ?

Its Virtualization Technology and there's a switch in bios to turn it on. For multiple OS applications.

No, it's for running an application in a "Virtual machine." Has little to do with "multiple OS" - when referred to as different multiple OSes. If by multiple SAME OS, then yes, that description applies; but the avg person reading your reply is not thinking you mean this.

It is for when you want to run an app without allowing it full access to your whole real OS system. One would do this to test what a virus would do for instance. It just so happens that other OSes can also be simulated. Think of it as like running a car on a dynamometer to test real-world situations and stress, or to take engine measurements under load. It is running Windows 7 within Windows 7 for instance. Programmers use it for testing debugging their newly made code - without the bugs bringing the whole OS down.

LOL HE SAID " MULTIPLE OS APPLICATIONS" NOT "MULTIPLE OS"
 
What I use it for is this in windows i can use say vmware to run linux on a virtual machince to have my PC fold a linux client in windows while useing both at the same time.

I'm close to sell this mobo and return to some asus. Corsair Dominator GT 2000 won't go more then 2:10 ratio again. JUST GREAT !!! Mem runs 2:10 ratio 1426 MHz

Here is my template for i7 975 EE

CPU Clock Ratio (30X)                                                                                         
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ( 143 )                                                                      
MCH Strap ( Auto )
CPU Uncore Frequency  (28x)                                           
CPU Clock Skew ( 0 ps )
Spread Spectrum ( Disabled )
PCIE Frequency (Mhz) ( 100 )

Memory Feature        
Memory Speed ( Standard )
Memory Control Setting ( Enabled )
Memory Frequency ( 1866Mhz / 2:14 ) 14x143=2006 Mhz
                                                     
Channel Interleave Setting ( 6 Way )
Rank Interleave Setting ( 4 Way )
Memory Low Gap ( Auto ) 
tCL Setting ( 8 )
tRCD Setting ( 8 )
tRP Setting ( 8 )
tRAS Setting ( 24 )
tRFC Setting ( 96 )
Command Rate ( 1t )
Voltage Control
EVGA VDroop Control ( Without VDroop )
CPU VCore ( 1.3125 )                                                                   
CPU VTT Voltage ( +250 )     
CPU PLL VCore 1.8 ( 1.425 )
IOH PLL VCore 1.8 ( 1.425 )
IHC Vcore 1.05v ( 1.200 )
DIMM Voltage ( 1.65 )
DIMM DQ Vref ( +0mV )
QPI PLL VCore 1.1v ( 1.100 )
IOH VCore 1.1v ( 1.100 )
IOH/ICH I/O Voltage ( 1.500 )
VTT PWM Frequency ( 250 KHZ )
CPU PWM Frequency ( 800 KHZ )
CPU Impedance (Less )
QPI Signal Compensation (Middle)

CPU Feature
Intel SpeedStep ( Disabled )
Turbo Mode Function ( Enabled )
CxE Function ( Disabled )
Execute Disable Bit ( Disabled )
Virtualization Technology ( Disabled )
Intel HT Technology ( Enabled )
Active Processor Cores ( All )
QPI Control Settings ( Enabled )
QPI Link Fast Mode ( Enabled )
QPI Frequency Selection ( 6.400 GT/s )
OC Recovery ( Enabled )
Turbo Performance ( Enabled ) 

PnP/PCI     PCI Express
Maximum Payload Size ( 1024 )

DarkOneZ13

This has reach the point of being absurd! All I see is updates for the $1000 980x! How about the rest of us 90%? Some fixes for the major problems plaguing this board, maybe?


I used to respect EVGA but seeing as we can't even get any feedback or an admition to there being a problem with the way VT was implemented on this board, I definitely do not anymore.


I',m pretty sure someone will have some lamo response to turn of VT, so here is a preemptive reply to them, I cannot, as I use the feature all the time. 

I am in the market for a new Video Card but seeing as I have just lost yet another Hard Drive due to this VT Bug which by the way no other x58 chipset motherboard has. This will definitely be the last Product I buy from EVGA Period! I will also be telling everyone I know not to purchase anything from this company!


This damned bug has now cost me almost $300. I am mad as hell.

It is really bad that I didn't notice this VT bug until I have got nearly 300 unsafe shutdown counts from each of my 3 hard drives!

Hope someone can assist me with this. I just assembled my system and before loading the OS, decided to update the BIOS to this one. I have an external floppy drive, so I used E758_74.exe to update the BIOS. The floppy works...it gets to "Starting Caldera DR-DOS..." and a flashing line...but that is where the system stays....nothing more and the floppy drive is not being read.  Any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong?