890FXA-GD70 SATA drives causes Mid POST hang

Hi,
I experienced a strange problem today when my PC couldnt startup. The POST debug shows error code of 3C "Mid post initialization of chipset registers". After going through some forum and a guy reported that disconnecting his CD rom drive solved the problem, I disconnected every one of my drives (SATA HDD + DVD ROM). Finally after several tries I found that one of my SATA HDD is causing such problem. I disconnected it and the PC boots up fine.
Has anyone encountered such problem before? Is there any way to boot the PC even with the affected drive connected so I can run test on the drive to check whether it has crashed etc.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

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A failed drive I imagine just wouldn't get detected by BIOS and POST would continue anyways.
Depending on the defect, a bad drive is in fact able to stall the system during P.O.S.T.. I have a drive right here that went bad and does exactly that (tested in three different systems). The findings of Mityangel do not point to a processor issue.
Yes, many problems during P.O.S.T. are (statistically speaking) CPU and/or memory related. However, the 3C AMI BIOS P.O.S.T. Checkpoint that the system seems to get hung up is definately located way past the processor and memory initialization phase which actually does not occur during the P.O.S.T. Routine, but before that (when the BIOS Boot Block Routine is executed (which happens before the actual System BIOS is decompressed into system memory --> the actual P.O.S.T. Routine starts right after that.))

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OS-Windows 7 Professional
Power Supply-Corsair 750

After checking the boards and google search, it appears that several other people are having the same issue. If the memory sticks are placed in dimm1 and dimm3 the board seems to post and runs fine. But that will not produce dual channel memory. Should I change memory to another brand? What is the best memory for this board. The computer has been running all day and seems to be stable but, just worried that memory is still incorrect and only have 10 days to return to Frys. I have also flashed the bios to 1.6! It appears that after reading several other post on this forum, they had to return the board, could I have a bad board?

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