my FTW2 6686 came with 86.04.66.01.80 bios and runs at 11GHZ out of the box, i submitted it to techpowerup.

Can you submit a screen of gpuz?

Well, my RMA'd card has the exact same issue and bios.  Thanks EVGA.  Giving up.

I have the same issue with above, the card (FTW2) I just purchased contains 86.04.60.00.80 bios and default clock is 1251Mhz with the lower bandwidth.
Attempting to flash bios in any mode, safe mode included yields the error:
"ERROR: Failed to preserve Inforom BBO data due to vbios's IR does not contain the BBO placeholder."


Please assist, if this card is supposed to be able to use 11Ghz out of the box then I would like to use it as such.
 
Attached is GPU-Z.
 

How do I check if the update is perfectly applied? 

dyziplen
I have the same issue with above, the card (FTW2) I just purchased contains 86.04.60.00.80 bios and default clock is 1251Mhz with the lower bandwidth.
Attempting to flash bios in any mode, safe mode included yields the error:
"ERROR: Failed to preserve Inforom BBO data due to vbios's IR does not contain the BBO placeholder."


Please assist, if this card is supposed to be able to use 11Ghz out of the box then I would like to use it as such.
 
Attached is GPU-Z.
 

I had the same issue.
The reason was that I used an old "update.exe" downloaded in past days.
You should try to download update.exe again.
The link is same. However the contents is different from past one.
MD5SUM of new "update.exe" is "70cc85e70bceb7e8dda56292318658c7".

Greetings! Happy to hear about the bios post.
Wanted to know how I should Install my new EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING, 08G-P4-6286-KR
as I currently have an EVGA Geforce GTX 760 installed. Can you please give me a step by step how to remove uninstall GTX 760 and how to then install the NEW GTX 1080. I am worried I may Or something will go wrong. Please advise!  Thank You

SDDG27
Greetings! Happy to hear about the bios post.
Wanted to know how I should Install my new EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING, 08G-P4-6286-KR
as I currently have an EVGA Geforce GTX 760 installed. Can you please give me a step by step how to remove uninstall GTX 760 and how to then install the NEW GTX 1080. I am worried I may Or something will go wrong. Please advise!  Thank You

Start a new forum thread. Discussing this here is not appropriate.

SDDG27
Greetings! Happy to hear about the bios post.
Wanted to know how I should Install my new EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING, 08G-P4-6286-KR
as I currently have an EVGA Geforce GTX 760 installed. Can you please give me a step by step how to remove uninstall GTX 760 and how to then install the NEW GTX 1080. I am worried I may Or something will go wrong. Please advise!  Thank You

Where to buy: amazon
original bios : 86.04.60.01.80

current bios : 86.04.3b.40.80
 
I have updated 1080 ftw2 bios on the following link.

However, the memory type can not be confirmed like the following picture,
I noticed that the performance of the graphics card dropped significantly.
This phenomenon occurs both in primary and secondary.
I used ddu to delete the driver and reinstall the related program, but the problem is not solved.
Installing original bios does not work.
 

 
what can I do?