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mmuthiah
I noticed one thing in bios,
 
1. If i disable  Intel Sata Raid , all the sata ports (disks) are disabled, but when i switch back to Raid again, all disks underneath that raid still remain disable (that should be enabled automatically).
2. If i power-off (unplug) and restart, all my bios setting are gone, i have load from my saved profile?  Anyone notice this?
 

I've read about the bios losing all the settings on here. Don't recall if anyone has tried to replace the battery on the board. If the battery goes dead, the bios will boot with defaults every time. Try replacing it.

NightWake
I feel cheated. I wanted a stable overclockable platform that I could game and perform work on.
I can't game because it will blue screen mid match letting my team down.
I can't work because it will blue screen and I will lose work efficiency costing my boss and myself money.
If it didn't blue screen at least once every 8 hours I would recommend it. Until blue screens, XMP, 4.5Ghz at mild voltage and the bios holds a config after being powered down I cannot recommend anyone buy this board over a competitor board.
 
They have fixed things since release, this is important to note. My experience now is better than 3 months ago, they are working on it, it is just really slow.
That being said, I will never trust a EVGA mobo again, I've given them the benefit of the doubt twice and they have let me down twice. I will still only buy EVGA gpus, I have never ever had a sub-par EVGA gpu, they are world class in that area and will continue to dominate there. I also love my EVGA Killer Xeno, I happen to one of the lucky ones and mine actually works.

morphaus
Doe's Sleep Work On this Motherboard. That is very important to me. ?

EVGA_JacobF
Most of that should be fixed on the latest BIOS update.
 
We will have a new release soon that will fix some more items as well.

ridesy

knotsonice
Sounds like you need to do some more stress testing on it. You may be undervolting the cpu for 4.5ghz. Start up a thread with your issues and specs and people will help you out on these boards. I've been rock solid for a long time now on the Dark.
 
Carl
 

NightWake
I feel cheated. I wanted a stable overclockable platform that I could game and perform work on.
I can't game because it will blue screen mid match letting my team down.
I can't work because it will blue screen and I will lose work efficiency costing my boss and myself money.
If it didn't blue screen at least once every 8 hours I would recommend it. Until blue screens, XMP, 4.5Ghz at mild voltage and the bios holds a config after being powered down I cannot recommend anyone buy this board over a competitor board.
 
They have fixed things since release, this is important to note. My experience now is better than 3 months ago, they are working on it, it is just really slow.
That being said, I will never trust a EVGA mobo again, I've given them the benefit of the doubt twice and they have let me down twice. I will still only buy EVGA gpus, I have never ever had a sub-par EVGA gpu, they are world class in that area and will continue to dominate there. I also love my EVGA Killer Xeno, I happen to one of the lucky ones and mine actually works.

Ditto
What CPU are you trying to OC to 4.5Ghz and why do you blame the Dark motherboard for your instability?
I run 4.5Ghz on 3920K with no issues at all and at low voltages, but that is a quad core processor and as with all CPU's I could just be lucky!
 
It is the job of the person building and overclocking the system to find the sweet spot for their individual CPU/RAM & Motherboard combo and unless you can actually demonstrate that your individual CPU will overclock 100% stable to 4.5Ghz on another X79 board, then it probably isn't the board that is at fault and maybe the sweet spot for your CPU is 4.3Gz or 4.4Ghz etc......
 
Ridesy