Msi z77a-g45 - BIOS not saving loop

Hi there, I picked up a msi z77a-g45 and an i5 3750k, 4x4GB Kingston RAM, etc etc.
I'm an experienced system builder, but this is my first build in i5 land, or actually on an MSI board. The issue I've got is when I first booted, it shows the "CPU or memory changed !!" and to press F1 for setup or F2 to load defaults and continue. Cool, expected on first boot. I enter setup, get the BIOS how I want it, save and reboot, it immediately shuts my box off and 2 seconds later, back on. All good so far.
But it again prompts the "CPU or memory changed !!" warning. Err...it showed my CPU properly in the BIOS, same with memory.
I've now gone through it quite a few times, and it always re-prompts me to go into the BIOS again or F2 to use defaults.
Doing the F2 deal will get me into Windows, but upon reboot I get the error again and have to F2 again just to boot.
I've tried using Click BIOS to make changes, it however doesn't show any memory in here (updated to latest Click BIOS version), but does show my CPU fine. Shows 0GB.
I've also updated my BIOS to release 25 this morning, no change.
Anyone else have this happen at all? I suppose my next steps will be to drop to a single stick of memory, see if that goes, or do a full 'remove battery' cmos clear. I've tried pushing the clear button on back of mobo but didn't seem to do anything.
Would really appreciate any ideas, thanks all!

Quote from: Psych on 26-July-12, 03:43:47
Hi there, I picked up a msi z77a-g45 and an i5 3750k, 4x4GB Kingston RAM, etc etc.
I'm an experienced system builder, but this is my first build in i5 land, or actually on an MSI board. The issue I've got is when I first booted, it shows the "CPU or memory changed !!" and to press F1 for setup or F2 to load defaults and continue. Cool, expected on first boot. I enter setup, get the BIOS how I want it, save and reboot, it immediately shuts my box off and 2 seconds later, back on. All good so far.
But it again prompts the "CPU or memory changed !!" warning. Err...it showed my CPU properly in the BIOS, same with memory.
I've now gone through it quite a few times, and it always re-prompts me to go into the BIOS again or F2 to use defaults.
Doing the F2 deal will get me into Windows, but upon reboot I get the error again and have to F2 again just to boot.
I've tried using Click BIOS to make changes, it however doesn't show any memory in here (updated to latest Click BIOS version), but does show my CPU fine. Shows 0GB.
I've also updated my BIOS to release 25 this morning, no change.
Anyone else have this happen at all? I suppose my next steps will be to drop to a single stick of memory, see if that goes, or do a full 'remove battery' cmos clear. I've tried pushing the clear button on back of mobo but didn't seem to do anything.
Would really appreciate any ideas, thanks all!
Read my "thread" : https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=160606.0

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