K8N Neo4-F 1.D BIOS cold boot issue

A couple of months ago I flashed my BIOS to the latest version for this board, 1.D. Since then, I've noticed that sometimes on a cold boot, the computer won't complete a POST. I have to hit the reset button and warm boot for the machine to POST normally. Once the computer POSTS it otherwise works fine, so this is a minor annoyance at most. However, sometimes after the warm boot, the BIOS will warn me that overclocking has failed, and that the BIOS has reverted to default settings (although I am NOT overclocking), although hitting the DEL key and entering CMOS it's clear that the BIOS has not been reset to defaults (nor would I want it to be). After hitting F1 to continue, the computer boots as normal. Is this a known issue with this BIOS version?

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