Great to hear you got it working! I also ran into this "dF" issue with my 10980xe last night and I have an updated BIOS chip on the way.
 
While I was taking out my current BIOS chip, I dropped it and I can't recall which orientation it was at in the board. Could someone guide me in this matter? I don't want to install the new BIOS chip incorrectly.

Thank you! I really appreciate your help 

can you see that picture?  I think photo bucket is down.  PM me your email and I will send it to you.  Kind of wanted it here to so others can learn from our frustrations.

Oh yes I see it clearly. Again, appreciate the help

Skoopsro
did anyone  try to get into bios with NO cpu installed?
curious if that might work..

I tried and it did not work.

rblaes_99
EVGAs solution is to send out a BIOS with 1.19 or 1.20 installed.  The only issue I have with this solution is that there really isn't a way for me to update the other hard wired BIOS chips is there?  I doubt I will ever use the other BIOS chips anyway, but mine are probably going to be stuck at 1.07 as it was shipped.

ok thanks. figures. doubt ill hear from service dept before monday. probably be 10days atleast before i get the damn bios chip from them. lame. 

rblaes_99
EVGAs solution is to send out a BIOS with 1.19 or 1.20 installed.  The only issue I have with this solution is that there really isn't a way for me to update the other hard wired BIOS chips is there?  I doubt I will ever use the other BIOS chips anyway, but mine are probably going to be stuck at 1.07 as it was shipped.

i guess the only real way to fix that is get a loaner cpu or order a cheap kaby lake i5 7740x and then do a return back to amazon or something. crappy, but i dont want to be stuck with one bios on an "XOC" mobo. major oversight with the lack of bios flashback. very frustrating

I have the rampage omega(the 2nd of the 3 boards) and was able to get that up and going right away. I really like it so far. I had both boards boxed up and was trying to decide which to try first and I went with the dark. I love my z390dark. Was really excited to give the older brother version a try. So i obviously picked the x299dark first. And yes. Bummer.

I'm not gonna go on about it anymore. It's over. Support is sending a replacement bios chip. I doubt anyone ever in their wildest dreams thought we would see 4 generations in a row on these x299boards. Ill get the other chips flashed one way or another. : /

DEJ915

Load into bios and move the selector switch to whichever bios you want to flash and run the bios updater.  This might sound goofy but works for every board I've ever used.


That's a good suggestion. I ordered a 7640x fairly cheap and have that as an option now also. I hope your suggestion works for everyone else because NOBODY should have to buy kaby lake X in 2020. Smh

rblaes_99

Nealx01

DEJ915

Load into bios and move the selector switch to whichever bios you want to flash and run the bios updater.  This might sound goofy but works for every board I've ever used.

Can confirm....  booting into windows with the 1.20 BIOS chip EVGA sent me, then moving slider, running the bios update batch allowed me to update all three BIOS to 1.20 and all is good.  Thanks for the help.

Awesome. RMA sent a replacement on tuesday. Usually takes a week for normal orders to arrive. So still playing the waiting game a bit longer. Glad that works. I dunno why I overlooked that. Wouldnt be much different than flashing over a corrupt bios in practice. 🤔

EVGAs solution is simple enough and only really impacts those few of us jumping into the x299 this late in the game and going right to the 10th gen CPUs.  Switching the BIOS after POST works just fine.
 
The only thing to be careful about is ensuring the BIOS chip is inserted correctly.  it can be installed backwards and take it from me, it goes bad fast if you screw that up.  refer to my earlier posts for a close up photo.

Hi,

it is a pity that no one has previously sent information to registered users about the possible occurrence of problems with the installation of the 10th generation CPUs. Just today I had a moment of time, my son and wife went on vacation, I made a new build and for good morning I get postcode"dF".

damm!

I can't flash mobo without CPU, I get the code "F" and that's it. What to do with this? I've tried USB stick with mobo box, with BIOS versions 1.12 and 1.14, did not help.

Can you help somehow with this? Is only RMA left for ATX Micro 2?

sshanmugam1979
Hello all, I have recently purchased an EVGA x299 FTWK Motherboard and assembled the computer yesterday. I am getting a Code DF. From the forums, I understand that I need to get an updated BIOS.

How do I get it shipped to me? Appreciate your help?

register your motherboards serial number and upload your purchase invoice. you can find all that by clicking the service tab on the top of this page. then once thats done open the support tab again and click contact support team. and tell them what is happening. if you have a 10th gen x299 CPU you will need a bios update. your board has a socketed bios they should just send it out. its pretty easy to do. the instruction packet they send has a bad photo in it at a critical place. so be warned about that.