EVGA did right by me on the return. So unless they miraculously start making excellent Mobo's again like they did when they could go by an nVidia reference model; I will not be getting another EVGA mobo. However I will keep getting their video cards and power supplies. :) 

did anyone upgrade bios,using windows 8 OS ? 

gbak02


did anyone upgrade bios,using windows 8 OS ? 

 
Yes. You need to do it from an elevated permission command line instance.

savaticus,thanks mate
 
give us an example,i mean the way that you did it.
or what you wrote at cmd,i assume you can't do it direct
run as admin the 'ftpwin64'.
 
strange things,
 
it was my first time jumped from asus to another manufacturer,and everything goes wrong
even the bios i cant upgrade,usually i used asus update and everything was easy.

I just played around in the BIOS and figured out a solution that works.  Instead of changing the cpu ratio under MANUAL, I just changed my multiplier under the E-LEET Tuning option.  Changed my cpu clock to 4.1GHz and dropped the vcore to 1.15, saved, restarted, and everything works. I love the looks of the board and it does do pretty much all I need it too; it's just picky on how you do it. Love all the other EVGA products but the motherboards (BIOS mainly) need a lot of work. I have to be honest though, if the ASUS mini-itx board had a red/black color scheme, I would've bought that instead.

gbak02


savaticus,thanks mate

give us an example,i mean the way that you did it.
or what you wrote at cmd,i assume you can't do it direct
run as admin the 'ftpwin64'.

strange things,

it was my first time jumped from asus to another manufacturer,and everything goes wrong
even the bios i cant upgrade,usually i used asus update and everything was easy.

 
Others have provided full instructions further back in this very thread as well as the BIOS release announcement thread. 

So the Stinger looks to be a problematic motherboard or a problematic BIOS, that's a real shame as i was looking forwards to building my first ITX system.
 
Will evga be releasing a Version 2 of this board with all issues fixed?

jamesln5392


So the Stinger looks to be a problematic motherboard or a problematic BIOS, that's a real shame as i was looking forwards to building my first ITX system.

Will evga be releasing a Version 2 of this board with all issues fixed?

They haven't released a version 2 of the Z77 FTW with all it's issues fixed so....

Is it really not worth getting the stinger?
 
I was excited about evga mini itx but all i read is bad things 

VaporXtreme


Is it really not worth getting the stinger?

I was excited about evga mini itx but all i read is bad things 

Hate to say it, but it might be worth it to hold off on the Stinger till the bugs are worked out.
 
Mine overall will not OC at all, but at least it is running stable when it does work.  Thou one wrong setting in the BIOS and you got to start all over on the settings.

mine it works,@4.3Ghz  pretty stable,memory at 1600

gbak02


mine it works,@4.3Ghz  pretty stable,memory at 1600

for those that run a 3k series Intel CPU. 

gbak02


mine it works,@4.3Ghz  pretty stable,memory at 1600

 
Is it still unstable if you run it at 2133?

^Yeh,i tried the same thing like before,no post,needs cmos to restart
Well i observed,that the front usb 3 works normal now.

At NW Lanfest Intel with EVGA z77 Stringer, GTX 660 Ti, EVGA 750G PSU, 3570k 4.6ghz on EVGA cooler. McLovin it! the new 1.22 bios much improved and stable with oc'd, but no XMP enable :(