Quote Originally Posted by vipertwo View Post
Nick, I flashed to bios 1814 and I still have the same problem as you. All my bios settings are on default.

Every time I boot after disconnecting the mains power the following happens:
power on, drives and fans power up, screen stays black; after a few seconds everything powers down (drives getting knackered...); and then it starts up again reaching the "POST failed (press Y for setup screen, etc)" message. After that it boots up normally, and reboots properly provided that mains power is never disconnected.

So Intel still needs to fix this.
I first saw this issue when I got the board > two months ago and I was concerned because at that point nobody had posted anything regarding this issue on forums. I contacted immediately Intel regarding this issue and spent a lot of time with them doing stupid tests after which they agreed to test on their own computers and were able to observe this SAME issue on their OWN computers to the great surprise of the Intel tech guy on the phone (great design and quality control!!!! they missed that!!!!). Like you, my main concern besides the fact that there is an unsuccessful POST and behavior for no reason while no settings are changed, is the cycling of the hard drives. Everything is on UPS now and if I need to remove power to install stuff etc I unplug the HDD on the first boot after re-applying power.

The Intel "fix" so far according to the Tech guy I talked to last week is:

- Update to the latest BIOS as usual
- Remove the battery for one minute and put the battery flat on a table upside down (this is exactly as it was explained to me)
- Replace the battery, go in the BIOS, and in the memory options, choose Advanced-> User Defined instead of Auto, but without changing any options. Then save.

I haven't tried it yet....does it work for anyone here?