BIOS 0.08 Updates: 

• Adds support for Ivy Bridge-EP Processors

• Adds new GUI BIOS interface
• Various improvements/compatibility updates

 
 

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Windows Installation

• Download the correct .zip file below for your motherboard:

         270-SE-W888-KR - EVGA SR-X

• Close all open programs
• Go into the folder where you unzipped this package and run Windows_Update.bat
• Press any key to continue
• Click YES when the User Account Control message appears
• Press Y in to start the flash process
• DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR RESET DURING THE FLASH PROCESS
• After the flashing is finished, the system will automatically shut down after a key is pressed. Then power on again and go into BIOS to setup.

  
USB Flash/DOS Drive Installation 

• Create a bootable disk.
• Extract the above .zip file to your bootable disk.
• From a DOS prompt, run DOS_Update.bat

• Press Y in to start the flash process
• DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR RESET DURING THE FLASH PROCESS
• After the flashing is finished, shut the system down completely. Then power on again.

After flashing verify that the correct flash was applied by checking the version number on the lower right corner of the BIOS screen.
 
New GUI BIOS:

JACOB Thank you so much !!
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can......

 
I can't believe !
 
Thank you Jacob !

Many many many thanks for sticking with us. I have updated as per instructions but haven't got any Xeon V2s to test yet. In the mean time I did have a few questions.
 
1.  Is there any chance you could re-enable the manual override for PCI-e bifurcation? I have 3 video cards (in slots 3 5 and 7) and two peripheral cards in slots 1 and 2 and the only way I could get everything working without resource allocation issues (with BIOS 19) was to set the slots under IOU2 to 8x/8x instead of x16.  Cards are arranged as follows.
 
Starting at the top.
 
Slot 1 - Auzentech Home Theatre HD soundcard
Slot 2 - Matrox Mojito Video editing card
Slot 2 - GTX Titan
Slot 4 - Empty (disabled via DIP switch).
Slot 5 - GTX Titan
Slot 6 - Empty (disabled via DIP switch).
Slot 7 - GTX Titan.
 
I've also disabled the SAS boot orom, E-sata ports, bluetooth and onboard sound, none of which I use and had disabled in the previous BIOS. 
 
The system appears to be working now but sometimes it does not post following a soft reset and I have to reset again manually (same problem as no_fate's below!).
 
I think this might be down to the bifurcation setting mentioned but if you have any other suggestions please let me know. 
 
2. When the system does post I'll often get a long beep instead of a short one....!  Booting then continues and everything seems to function normally, what could be the reason for this?
 
3.  Finally, could you confirm that this bios fully supports all the Xeon V2 CPUs including the 12 core E5-2697?

cpu microcode version 710
also sas orom version 3.7  :)
 
i have some issues with soft reboot - system hangs and need power off\on to start. please fix this.
 
waiting my 2687v2 :)

Before I flash my motherboard, I'd like to know is this a *real* EFI based ROM with full EFI support, or just a new GUI slapped onto an old BIOS with couple of updates to microcode and SAS?
 
JacobF, could you please post a full change log for this release, detailing what are those "Various improvements/compatibility updates"?
 
Thanks.

So, I took the plunge flashing this pre-alpha BIOS, and I'm seeing weird things happen with it.
 
In the v020 my drives used to be available right away in the OS, but now they mount while my desktop is loading?!
 
Nothing else has changed in my workstation setup except the BIOS so has to be related to it.
 
Anyone else experiencing anything similar?

like new bios.
I disable CMS and enable fast boot - now Windows started for couple of seconds.
 
something changed in distribution of pci-e resources, now my GPU's:
Slot 1 - Titan GTX (pcie 16x 2.0)
Slot 2 - disable
Slot 3 - Titan GTX (pcie 16x 3.0)
Slot 4 - disable
Slot 5 - Titan GTX (pcie 8x 3.0)
Slot 6 - disable
Slot 7 - Titan GTX (pcie 8x 3.0)
 
before:
Slot 1 - Titan GTX (pcie 16x 2.0)
Slot 2 - disable
Slot 3 - Titan GTX (pcie 8x 3.0)
Slot 4 - disable
Slot 5 - Titan GTX (pcie 8x 3.0)
Slot 6 - disable
Slot 7 - Titan GTX (pcie 16x 3.0)
 
I don't know what a difference.

I just updated the BIOS from windows, after the restart the PC wont boot anymore: the BIOS is there but I have a black screen with a "-" blinking.
 
What can I do? Please help!

If you can still get into the BIOS try disabling a few of the onboard devices starting with the bluetooth and e-sata ports and SAS boot rom (if you're not using it).  
 
This board has always had problems in allocating resources when numerous slots are populated and it seems that address space that would otherwise have been available to components has been exploited elsewhere in this BIOS.