H97M-G42 stuck at boot with BIOS 7925v25 and 7924v26

I am in a loophole with the MSI H97M-G43 Motherboard.
I would not recommend this motherboard to anyone planning to play with ESXi
Bios v21 v22 v23 v24 would not recognize quadport lan adapters such as Intel PRO/1000 VT or Intel PRO/1000 PT.
In Bios they will appear us "Unrecognized Manufacturer" and there is no option to enable hardware from unrecognized manufacturers
Bios v25 v26 would recognize PRO/1000 VT hardware but would refuse to but OS.
Very very confusing and unstable situation.

Update:
Bios v25 & v26 are unable to initialize 32GB of RAM, thus creating boot issues.
16GB RAM work just fine.
Bios v21,v22,v23,v24 would handle 32GB of ram without any problems.
Wow..... MSI

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I have an x3750 M4 system with M5210 Controller, 1GB Flash RADI 5 option installed, and 8 SED drives. The BIOS "Drive Security" is activated. The previously password does not work and the system gets in a loop prompting again for the pass phrase. When the cache, and thus the support for SED drives, is removed, the server boots fine.
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> But in the starting up, I do not see both operating systems. I see only Windows xp.
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Quote from: HenryW on 12-August-07, 08:15:55
Hey Jack did you read the whole thing?
Obviously not good enough. I had a look at the official BIOS update changelogs and saw that v1.2 included fixes that have to do with S3.
Quote
thought S1 was for sleep and S3 for hibernate.
Not exactly. Just to make sure we are all talking about the same thing:
Most common Important ACPI Standby-States:
- S1
This is the most shallow sleep state. Power to CPU and RAM are maintained, fans keep spinning.
- S3 (Suspend to RAM)
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- S4 (Suspend to disk, Hibernate)
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If I am not mistaken, all you can do in BIOS is choose between S1 and S3. In Vista you should be able to choose beetween Standby/suspend (S1 or S3, depending on BIOS settings) and Hibernate (S4).
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Jul 21 00:06:32 xxxxx Install Mac OS X Lion[290]: @(#)PROGRAM:IA PROJECT:InstallAssistant-197
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Jul 21 00:06:32 xxxxx Install Mac OS X Lion[290]: Env: USER=xxxxxxxxx
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Jul 21 00:06:32 xxxxx Install Mac OS X Lion[290]: Env: COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
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Jul 21 00:07:11 xxxxx Install Mac OS X Lion[290]: diskUnmounted: disk0s3
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I've tried everything.
Repaired permissions, disk.
Resetting PRAM, NVRAM, SMC.
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Tried to enter safe mode but I only get a black screen and a new restart. (Something like PRAM)
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I needed to boot to safe mode in order to finish the install of SL and remove these files from /System/Library/Extensions
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IOFireWireSBP2.kext
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Finally!! I'm currently using Lion on my MBP.
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Thank you Paul. I understad I just have one more question:
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3. Active Logical E: 78.13 Gb (NTFS)
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Verifying volume “Samsung SSD Daten”
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