Wow, I'm so surprised that no one here has figure this out or even experience this problem. After spending hours on this problem, I am now confident that the problem lies in the fact that the Gigabyte P55A-UD3 motherboard has a problem with my Liteon iHOS104 Blu-Ray reader in AHCI mode. How do I know? Everything works when under IDE mode, but it'll hang if AHCI is enabled and only by resetting the CMOS, can I access the BIOS.
Over at Anandtech, one of the reviewers for the Gigabyte H55-USB3 experienced the same problem as me:
Gigabyte H55N-USB3 : Mini-ITX done the Gigabyte way... - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News
Unfortunately, pressing the pause key didn't help me at all. The screen will pause and then nothing will materialize as I wait.
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