I replaced my motherboard battery and I thought it was fixed however that's when I discovered it only happens from a cold boot not a restart; VMD, CPU or Memory has changed. It's annoying but I deal with it. 

Did anyone find a fix? I’m also getting cpu and memory change from startup. I’m on bios 2.10 I believ

jason9755

battleskard
Did anyone find a fix? I’m also getting cpu and memory change from startup. I’m on bios 2.10 I believ

Yes, Eleet X1 was causing the issue for me. I simply disabled it from starting up with OS. Also other monitoring software like HWiNFO64 etc can cause this issue.

I really wish EVGA would spend a few minutes on fixing this, i have never user HW info, only eleet, thought it had gone away but it came back, I'm going to disable eleet and hopefully my RGB stays as is. I have to say I am highly disappointed in this board, I've been using evga MB's since the 780i days and never had any problems until this board, it's got me looking for another MB at this point, this thing is just to buggy. Would be nice to see EVGA chime in on this, they used to have great support and respond to issues quick, now not so much. 
 

I also disabled eleet x1 and no longer get the message

jason9755

quadlatte

jason9755

battleskard
Did anyone find a fix? I’m also getting cpu and memory change from startup. I’m on bios 2.10 I believ

Yes, Eleet X1 was causing the issue for me. I simply disabled it from starting up with OS. Also other monitoring software like HWiNFO64 etc can cause this issue.

I really wish EVGA would spend a few minutes on fixing this, i have never user HW info, only eleet, thought it had gone away but it came back, I'm going to disable eleet and hopefully my RGB stays as is. I have to say I am highly disappointed in this board, I've been using evga MB's since the 780i days and never had any problems until this board, it's got me looking for another MB at this point, this thing is just to buggy. Would be nice to see EVGA chime in on this, they used to have great support and respond to issues quick, now not so much. 
 

It's a minor inconvenience and there is no need to be overly dramatic. To say it would only take a few mins to fix is dismissive. Eleet X1 could be having issues with BIOS, UEFI, TPM etc. and be overly complicated to fix, who knows and you shouldn't assume as much. To condemn a whole company over a minor bug, bruh...

Bruh, I've been buying EVGA since the early days of eVGA, and when you pay a premium price for a "premium" product you expect it to work as advertised, if I want to deal with " minor inconvenience" then I would've paid way less, but I didn't. For EVGA to not make a peep about this, and there has been plenty of post about it, is concerning, if it was a one off thing that would be different but I have noticed problems with my keyboards and a PSU. At one time when you bought EVGA branded products you knew it would be problem free, now not so much.

israelduran
So I've had this board since march, and have also had this issue from day 1, happens multiple times per week and im finally sick of it. Is the consensus that there is no fix? For me in particular it wakes my computer out of sleep to restart in the middle of the night then stays on in bios with the error message saying x y z thing has changed or checksum error. Its specifically annoying for me because I have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard so I have to bust out an ancient wired keyboard to get out of the bios.

do you Eleet set to start up?

Another program mentioned by other members, that cause this type of issue: hwinfo64 
 
As far as possible Boot conflicts go - Do not have Any software start on Boot.  Then add one program (per re-Boot) at a time & see if issue happens

Seems all of this has carried forward to the Classified Z790 as well.
 
I mostly get a 50/50 shot of CPU has Changed, Memory has changed, or both together. But I've had these (all at once):
> CMOS Checksum Error
> Memory has changed
> CPU and memory have changed
> VMD Control setting has changed
> CSM settings has been changed to enable for legacy graphic card
 
I changed the battery like tech support told me to do when I submitted a ticket. That didn't do anything, as I suspected it wouldn't, it's a brand new board.
 
What is super irritating, is apparently this issue goes way back, and they just default to "change the battery" instead of admitting they have a problem across multiple bios, multiple product.
 
They want me to check to see if the board is shorting out on something, but that doesn't make sense, because it doesn't happen on EVERY boot up, like a short would cause it to do.
 
I can't find any info if I'm running HWinfo or not, how do I find that out?
 
> PSU: EVGA Supernova 1000G FTW
> Mainboard: EVGA Z790 CLASSIFIED (BIOS v1.11)
> CPU: Intel Core i9-13900KF
> Physical Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 (Running at 5000)
> Physical Memory Model#: CMH64GX5M2B6000C40
> Video Card: Nvidia 4080 FE
> Case: HYTE H60
> OS Storage: 3 Seagate Firecuda 530's
> OS: Windows 11

jason9755
Do you have EVGA ELEETE X1 software installed? If so disable it from starting up with OS and any other overclocking software (intel extreme tuning utility for example) from booting with OS. 
 

Yes, I removed both Eleet X1 and Intel Extreme yesterday. I came home tonight after work and cold booted, no force to bios! yay!
 
Now I need to find an LED controller for my bequiet AIO, because X1 was handling that, and now it's not working correctly.

jason9755
You can keep Eleete X1 installed just disable start with OS. 

Yes, that should work. 

Interestingly, after going into the bios and just hitting F10 to get to the desktop, I'm getting a "Standard PS/2 Keyboard" showing up in device manager but it's failed to start, so it has the triangle !.
 
Did I mess something up in the bios?
 

The boot time from pressing the power button to the point the desktop shows up is 1m:12s
My old Gigabyte board was fast, I'd estimate 20-30 seconds.
 
I will check the bios for Keyboard options on my next reboot.

Do you have force memory training enabled?  If you retrain your memory every boot, that would account for some of that extra time.

Figured I'd come back and update my personal situation with my z690 classy. 
 
Disabling Eleet X1 from startup changed the behavior from happening every time the pc was put to sleep to once in a blue moon, however it does still tend to happen where it'll be asleep, and I'll be asleep  and I'll wake up to the computer booted at the bios with any variation of messages telling me things that have not been changed have changed. 
 
What has not changed and still persists is that I still get any variation of those same messages from a cold boot EVERY TIME. 
 
It's pretty weird that despite this seeming to be an issue for everyone that has this board, that no one from EVGA has commented and why this is tolerable on boards 3x the cost of "lower end" boards that just work without issue.
 

 
I'm considering transitioning to a small form factor build, so any recommendations on boards are welcomed.