@ - just read what I wrote and you will understand that the comment: "Thank you for nothing EVGA support tech!" Was a way of being ironic. I don't think of it as an insult.
I worked with EVGA tech support for over 3 months (all logged with EVGA tech support) and they basically told me that there is nothing else that they can do. The official tech support from EVGA had no clue on what to do anymore.
If I could not care less of about this I would have fixed the issue and stayed quiet and let other people run into the same issue but not I decided to share that with the forum, so if others have the same issue - I explained what worked for me.
This was the last answer from EVGA:
"Hello,I'm sorry about this ongoing problem but you are the only customer I have encountered having this issue with this particular CLC. I myself also have one installed on a X299 micro and it works right at boot up with the only minor issue being the implementation of Microsoft's annoying UAC pop up but that's all on the OS. There is no known incompatibility between Asus motherboards and any of our CLCs being that it does work and I would highly encourage you to test it on another system to confirm for yourself that the issue is isolated and neither the CLC, the motherboard or the software are at fault." And yet
I fixed the issue (myself) with
a very simple solution.....
I still like EVGA products, particularly this AIO, very effective - better than most 360 AIOs out there (in terms of performance). (although I might go custom loops after this AIO dies for other reasons)