Apollo1321
My Post indicator Just failed with a segment on two of the 7digit displays. One failed last night, today another failed, was flashing for a bit before it finally gave out.

And that makes 10. I really didn't expect to be updating the running tally so often.
 
Also, further inspection shows that it is a through-hole component and there isn't much else on the back side of the board. With a soldering iron and a solder-sucker, you could theoretically swap out the indicator without too much trouble. I would assume that would ruin your warranty, but it does look feasible in my opinion. Only problem is that I don't know what the current unit is or what the current ratings of the segments should be. So you could replace it with one that burns out too if you don't put in a more robust part.
 
I really am curious if the indicators are defective or if EVGA accidentally designed all their board to put too much current into the indicators and somehow didn't catch that mistake while copy-pasting the design into all the z490s and z590s (and I can only assume x570's). "Super rare" they told me on the phone lol.

Yep me too. My Z390 Dark post code LED - ZERO issues since February 2019, the entire board is flawless. 
 
Sometimes I run it using only one display reading CPU package temp and sometimes I run both displays reading Vcore.
 
This motherboard is beautiful! 
 
https://i.imgur.com/pj4CwWF.jpg
 
 

 no idea if I should be glad or sad that I'm not the only one with this happening. 

So is the general consensus here that I’m better off just turning off the LEDs when my RMA board comes in this week? Cuz that’s what it seems like.

And now there's a report of an x570 board's LEDs failing too.

B0baganoosh
And now there's a report of an 's LEDs failing too.

Wow I really really hope that the issue can be fixed via a bios update or something because I find it disheartening to believe that Evga used a bunch of defective LEDs on the their most recent boards.

Hello everyone...
 
   As mentioned previously, my Z590 FTW LED (The right top) segment has started to go bad....Wanted to contact EVGA to see if they have identified, and found a reliable replacement LED for this board so if I do an RMA, I wont be sent a board that will fail again, but been working too late the last couple of weeks so have not had a chance to contact them...  I did see a few post's about turning on "Dark Mode" in the bios in an attempt to lengthen the life of the LED's so I thought I would try that....  To my surprise, turning On Dark Mode did nothing....  The LED's continue to stay on through the post, and Windows boot...  Is there another setting in the bios that Im not aware of that has to be turned on to keep these LED's off/Dark????

@geforce10, I picked the "off" option. I didn't have anything called "dark". It still shows the post code, but then turns off.

Also, I sent Jacob a message directly and he said he was looking into it.

B0baganoosh
@geforce10, I picked the "off" option. I didn't have anything called "dark". It still shows the post code, but then turns off.

Also, I sent Jacob a message directly and he said he was looking into it.

This is what my bios shows under "Dark Mode".  As you can see, I have it enabled, which should turn off the LED's after bios post, but they remain on no matter what....Sigh.  As of now, I dont think EVGA has a new revision/fix for this, and I cant even turn my off to save them from totally not working....

B0baganoosh
@geforce10, the setting for the post led is in the hardware monitor section.

Oh wow, may have missed that one, LOL!  Thanks for the heads up, trying that now and will post right back with results...  Still curious as to what "Dark Mode" does in the "Advanced" section???
 
UPDATE: Yea, that turned off the LED's after post, so thanks for the heads up B0baganoosh!!   I guess, even if I didn't have the LED's for POST, I get all the codes on my monitor during post. just not CPU temp.  However I do have an alarm set on my Corsair AIO that will alert me of the water temp/CPU gets too hot...  This EVGA DG-86 is amazing at keeping everything very cool inside the case, but ONLY if you remove the front air filter....Its a great idea, but honestly, that air filter BLOCKS at least 85% of the air flow from those 3 intake fans.  I mean, I could not believe the different once I removed it...Now my fans are nice and quite during gaming and my GPU and CPU both run really cool... I just blow my case out once a week with compressed air and life is grand...
 
Thanks again B0baganoosh for the info!!

rblaes_99
I just checked my sons 590ftw and his LEDs are still just fine.  seems like we got ours at the same time too boba.  

Good to hear!
 
Yeah, I really don't know what the exact problem is. As I've said, my theories are only just theories based on electrical understanding and what I'm seeing. I think if every single one was bad, they would have issues even with the demo units they do streams with and stuff. I think the whole production run has a potential to have issues, because my board was SN 000015 and people with SN's much later than that have had issues, as well as people with z590 Dark boards, x570 Dark boards, and z490 Dark boards. They're just indicator LEDs, there isn't much current (relative to anything else on the board anyway) and it isn't like they're being driven at various levels, they're either on or off (any particular segment anyway). So it definitely seems more like some sort of defect in the actual indicator itself to me.  *shrugs*. ...we won't know more unless EVGA actually tells us something.

Same problem here...
Supposed to be a 52 and a 41

My brand new [#1] Z590 DARK post LED has failed. My previous [#2] Z490 DARK Kingpin post LED failed too.. Last but not least, my [#3] X299 DARK before that also had post LED failure.


EVGA cannot build a properly functioning LED to save their own butt.
 
 
This is a photo of my Z590 Dark. I bought this motherboard brand new from EVGA last month. Once I saw it get dim, I knew it would fail soon… Unfortunately for me this is a feature I really enjoy. I like seeing my temps, I like seeing the core voltages on the debug led.
 
This sucks!! This motherboard has gone to a test bench and that’s it. Here it sits without a working debug. Evga will probably just send a replacement that will also fail. So why even RMA? How do we trust Evga again?? 




 

Add me to the failed LED club!  
Bought mine in June.
Now to RMA or not is the question.

Add me to the club also. My Z590 dark LED's are failing