2021/10/08 08:57:57
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. Purchased 9/9/2021. Sigh, not even running for two weeks lol as it sat in its box for a while.
2021/10/08 09:08:46
B0baganoosh
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.
2021/10/08 09:14:50
Apollo1321
Yea kinda sucks, the post leds on my z390 dark have had zero issues.

I'm also dreading rma as I'm way too ocd and last rma I did with evga was 2080 ti kp, the one I sent was perfect like it just came out the box. The one I recieved from rma looked as if it was thrown around, the sleeving on tube was coming off, scratches on the backplate, and a gouge on the pcb itself I was so upset over it I sold the card.

But I will ask evga if I can rma this dark for a new in box as I've only physically had the board for 3 weeks.
2021/10/08 11:41:50
WebsterRKL
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
 
 
2021/10/08 12:51:27
B0baganoosh
I had run an x58 board for years, then x99 for several years. Never had this kind of problem with EVGA boards before. Seems like a silly part to have fail on a several hundred dollar board.
2021/10/09 20:24:35
Feuer_Psycho
 no idea if I should be glad or sad that I'm not the only one with this happening. 
2021/10/11 08:31:31
Ludacon
update on my z590 ftw LED issue, the left display segment is back to working order. But now the lower righ segment on the RIGHT side is starting to flicker on 4 and 3, but no other numbers at the moment. 
2021/10/12 20:18:26
cristian0215
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.
2021/10/13 07:13:34
B0baganoosh
cristian0215
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.



That's what I did, so my vote is to do that. Just a note, if you set it on "POST Code" in the BIOS, it will show that last code the whole time the computer is running. If you set it to "Off", it will show you the POST code during boot (which is important), then turn the LEDs off.
2021/10/13 12:30:58
B0baganoosh
And now there's a report of an x570 board's LEDs failing too.

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