Old EVGA problem back to haunt me!

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Rig is in sig, Upgraded to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit for about 3 months now. If anyone remembers a few years back when EVGA had serious complaints and problems with the 680i motherboard. Crappy overclocks, xxnm compatibility problems, overheating, etc etc. Well, my 680i was flawless, massive overclock on my Q6600 G0, super stable, basically it was perfect.

Anyways, EVGA stepped up to the plate as always and offered an upgrade program to the 780i and fixed the problem as they always do. With all that said, Karma visited me these past few weeks and I am having the same problem so many people were complaining about here at the H years ago. It will boot up past the bios screen and then BSOD. Sometimes up to 3 times, and then will run windows flawlessly without fail until I reboot it or do a shutdown/restart.

The purpose of this post is not to knock EVGA in any way, they have been perfect to me and this board is covered under their lifetime warranty protection. What I'd like to know is if anyone ever found a solution to this problem. I would really like to avoid doing an RMA and rebuilding my machine if something as simple as a BIOS update will fix it. I already get the feeling that I'm going to have to, but it doesn't hurt to ask I guess. This old PC runs everything surprisingly well!
 
As you have guess, it could be something as simple as some BIOS corruption. Might simply clear the BIOS and re-enter your existing settings and give it a try and then update to the latest BIOS if that does not work. Not a lot of work involved in trying these ideas and I would always try them before taking the system apart and RMAing the board.
 
do what was recommended above. if it dont work rma that mofo and cross your fingers you might get a FTW board.....780i ftw maybe. that would be awesome!
 
Carlitos714 said:
do what was recommended above. if it dont work rma that mofo and cross your fingers you might get a FTW board.....780i ftw maybe. that would be awesome!
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What benefit does the FTW board have?
 
Carlitos714 said:
do what was recommended above. if it dont work rma that mofo and cross your fingers you might get a FTW board.....780i ftw maybe. that would be awesome!
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I was thinking this too, since it's so old, but I'm not holding my breath since the 680i is probably THE most returned MB in EVGA history and I'm not sure if they repair the boards or what they do with them.

I updated to the latest BIOS and it still does the same thing. I might just wait til the board totally dies because it really is rock solid once it gets going. Reminds me of my old tractor, hard as hell to start, but once it gets warmed up it runs all day no problems.
 
Sorry that the easy solutions failed.

EVGA keeps a stock of old models for the sake of RMAs. When they run out of a particular model, they will replace it with the next higher model that they have available. I had an old 8800 GTS fail after years of use and they replaced it with a GTS250. It is luck of the draw ... sometimes they have a similar model and sometimes they give you a good upgrade.
 
Ya, EVGA are usually on top of the game in terms of RMA and customer service. I'd shoot em an email to find out what options you have
 
90% of bsod during boot-up are ram related. the rest are mostly hdd. try unplugging all extra drives, hard and optical. try booting onto safe mode. try each stick of ram separately.
 
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