In Depth guide to BIOS settings. and Mouse/UEFI woes

I'm wondering if there is any on-line in-depth guides to the BIOS settings. I have a P67A-GD65 B3 and the documentation is pitiful. I am not interested at this point in overclocking, but I do want to optimize BIOS to get maximum performance and boot times. I want to disable any unnecessary items (such as 1394 support and Marvel SATA controller) and disable all that green energy stuff.
Also, I just flashed my UEFI from a  V1B to V1E, and now, my mouse in BIOS is worthless. It jumps all over the screen and all settings need to be made with the keyboard. My mouse is just a Microsoft Natural wireless laser. It worked fine in V1B.
My Specs are:
CPU: i7-2600K
RAM: 8Gb Corsair
Video: GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Tom

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I'm wondering if there is any on-line in-depth guides to the BIOS settings.
A search of the net may point to some. Flash back to v1.B unless v1.E addressed a specific reason for flashing in the first place. Recommend to contact MSI Tech Support & advise them of the issue experienced with v1.E; http://support.msi.com/ 

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