I’m really pissed. I rolled back to 2.03 from 2.04, and rolled forward to 2.04 again, just to be absolutely certain. On both 2.03 and 2.04 my PUMP FAN header (only 36A header close to the socket) is now faulty. You can lock in static RPM values, and the board will decide on different values on different BIOSs and after draining power, but it no longer adjusts RPM dynamically.

Other than that, when I shut down on certain occasions, the board will enter this weird state where the BIOS indicator and RAM indicator lights disappear, and attempting a boot results in this odd loop of training codes like 16, 20 and 5F. You then you have to boot to safe mode or drain power and switch the PSU back on to get it back to normal.

This 2.04 experiment basically permanently screwed my board. I thought rolling back to 2.03 would be no issue if I had a bad experience, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. It’s almost as though whatever fundamental screw up 2.04 did electrically can’t be undone. I need to RMA but it’s going to be a problem given where I live.

I didn’t interrupt any updates and I do 30s-60s long CMOS clears before updating any BIOS chip. I’m on a 13700K and A-die, and I haven’t observed any improvement in memory OCing either so this experiment was utterly pointless. Other than that I can confirm the CPU temp increase thing. Utter waste of time and energy testing this BIOS, and I can’t believe this sort of a BIOS was released as a non-beta. Genuinely disappointed in EVGA with this one - shocking