Quote Originally Posted by BenSanford View Post
The pause in the boot sequence is not due to the test for the lengthly memory self test. The quick test is enabled. I turned it off one time and that takes forever - much longer than the ~1-2 minute pause that I get now.
looking at your specs i see a dual receiver....what is that?...you might want to pull that out for a short time to see if that changes anything on the post-up.

the next thing is raid 5 making it 1 Tb of storage....are you using the intel controller?

Problem with the new BIOS B 10.10 was that after clearing everything, it tries to come back up with 1.8 volts to memory and SPD timings - which don't work, and I couldn't even get into BIOS setup to change things. So I had to remove two sticks, then I could get into Setup, set voltages, timings, etc., then after a boot, reinstall memory, and now finally working fine.
many board makers have the vdimm reset back to 1.8v...that is why it is important that your dimms will boot at 1.8v so you can recover form a CMOS reset without putting in a different memory stick, which works at 1.8v.

Guess I'll have to go through that process everytime I update BIOS - which is one reason why I wish we could get information about what the BIOS changes are indended to address.
abit does not release a text update document for beta bioses...they verbally tell the recepient who is usually a hardware website/forum site reviewer.