BIOS Freezing on a Z77A-GD65

Hello, was wondering if someone can help me out with my situation.
Just purchased a Z77A-GD65 along with a 2500K and the bios freezes every time shortly after I enter it (cursor and arrow keys doesn't work) but the temperature monitor still shows the 1-2 degree changes in the CPU temperature.
Edit, forgot to mention, I'm not trying to OC it a lot at the moment, it even freezes when I have it at 3.5ghz, and it also happens when I use OC Genie to OC it.
Specs:
Patriot Viper Xtreme 8gb 1866 kit
Corsair TX850M
I5 2500K
EVGA 560ti
Coolermaster 212 evo heatsink
Thanks in advance

Running memtest as I'm typing this on my netbook. It didn't give me much time to revert to default settings as it freezes 1~2 seconds after I load into bios. Heck, it even froze when I had the cpu at the stock clock of 3.3.

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Probably a USB device problem.
This is a candidate, as well as mouse and keyboard. Disconnect USB devices one at a time to find the culprit.
A lot of devices running. PSU a +12V single rail or is it multi rail? A rail going to the graphics or components may not be enough amps. My best guess is the card reader.
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I'll definitely try unplugging some of these USB devices to see if that helps with the B4 hang issue.
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But people on line say you do which one is right thanks

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MSIHQ: Information detected by MSIHQ Tool ver: 1.25g
MSIHQ: Report generated in 08/02/2013 at 23:37:57.77
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PCB Version: 2.0
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Changelog removed, no publishing outside beta section
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Quote from: Noway77 on 16-July-13, 17:03:52
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