Can't Enable XMP after BIOS flash to V1.4 on P55-GD85

I didn't put this in the BIOS section because while the BIOS is involved, I don't think it's necessarily a BIOS issue. However, if it should go there please move it.
While not new to computers by any stretch I committed the cardinal sin of updating my BIOS when I didn't absolutely have to. While their were some issues I'd hoped would be fixed with a new BIOS revision, they weren't critical.
I have a i7 860 Lynnfield system running Win 7 Home Premium 64 with a MSI P55-GD85 mobo which has been running fine since being built in March of this year. This was the first BIOS flash since I've built the system. The system came with either V1.0 or V1.1 (I think it was V1.1). I checked using Live Update (yes, I now know this is bad) and found there had been several udpates since my current version. I went ahead and used Live Update to flash the BIOS (yes, I know...not a good idea). Contrary to the horror stories the flash itself went fine. I watched it flash the BIOS and everything verified fine. Of course after the update I had to reset my BIOS settings to get the system to run which went fine. The problem is that the one thing I can't do is enable the XMP option for the memory without the system crashing. If I enable this option the system will POST and then do a memory dump before ever getting to the desktop. Without turning this option on I can't take full advantage of my RAM. I am running G.SKILL Trident 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) which are XMP compliant and ran without issue up until the BIOS update. It is possible that there is some other setting that I didn't reset after the BIOS change to allow this to work that I am missing. I know I did a bunch of tweaking and changing of settings trying to get things to run correctly when I first built the system. I've gone over and over the BIOS and can't find anything else to try to get me to allow to enable the XMP option without crashing. By simply enabling that option my system would normally run stable at about 3.6-3.7GHz.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening or what I can do about it? About the only other thing I can think of is to reflash the BIOS back to a previous version to see if that helps. I am sure there is something I am missing as there is no reason the BIOS shouldn't allow the XMP feature to be enabled without crashing. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Have you try to increase your RAM voltage to 1.55v ~1.6v?

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I flipped the PSU off, I always do that.
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