P67A-GD65 B3 boot priority keeps changing with USB device plugged in

I just bought this board this week and updated to the latest ( 1.D0 ) bios and still having these issues. First issue is that when in bios, my mouse only moves up and down. Can't move it sideways. I have to use my keyboard to adjust settings. I have Logitech USB keyboard and mouse. Second major issue is that I have 4 drives in a Raid setup and 1 1tb drive for storage. The Raid drives are hooked up to the Intel controller and the 1tb drive is hooked up to the Marvel controller. Everytime I turn the pc on and off or do a reboot the bios keeps changing the hard drive priorities to having the 1tb drive 1st even though I had the Raid drive as being first. One thing I notice is that if I unplug my USB card reader it boots fine and doesn't change the drive priority. It would be a hassle if I have to unplug my card reader each time and plug it in when I use. Kinda defeats the purpose of a front panel card reader. BTw the reason I had to plug my front panel card reader into a passthrough USB is because the board only had one 2.0 USB header and that was already being used by my 2 front panel USB connectors which was also disappointing.

Ok, all testing complete. Installed a USB 3.0 external, & a WD 2TB HDD to the Marvell. Settings, Intel AHCI, Hot Plug enabled. All USB functions enabled. Marvell set for AHCI. Booted to Windows normally. Marvell HDD showed up at POST, but in Windows had to be activated & assigned a drive letter. Full shutdown. At fresh startup, all was normal in the boot sequence with the Intel OS HDD as the #1 Boot Option, & the Marvell HDD was listed in the BBS as available to assign it's boot order. Continued to Windows & did another full shutdown. This time on a fresh restart, the Boot Option Priority was still #1 the OS HDD, but, the BBS boot order was the Marvell HDD listed as first & the Intel OS HDD as the #2. This didn't really cause any problem to boot normally even though the HDD BBS sequence was out of order. Full shutdown. At this restart, the Marvell 'was' #1 in the Boot Option Priority & the Intel OS HDD didn't show in the BBS list. I went ahead & let it boot into Windows which it did without a hitch & then I shutdown right away. At this point I took the USB external out of the picture, & it had no affect one way or another as to the boot order. Full shutdown/fresh startup, but this time, set Marvell to IDE, changed Intel Hot Plug to all disabled, save & exit, next cycle, Marvell was #1 Boot Option Priority again. Set the Intel as #1 Boot Option Priority & also as #1 in the BBS, & at every shutdown & restart since, the Intel OS HDD has held as #1. I went back & changed the Marvell back to AHCI later, & it still held correctly as to what I had set in each fresh startups.
Summary? I believe the Marvell devices are being initiated first in the POST sequence. Disable of Hot Plug seemed to help. Since the Marvell has no way to disable Hot Plug, the HDD always shows up in the Sys Tray. My advice? Unless you have multiple ODD's, I would suggest to disable & not use the Marvell ports or controller at all, or use it for ODD's only. How your card reader fits in to all this, I have no way to test for that. Place the storage HDD in one of the Intel SATA III ports, leave the 4 HDD's in Raid in the 4 black SATA II ports, place the ODD if only one in the other Intel SATA III port. Bottom line; MSI Tech Support needs to be notified & involved with this. By your description, there is an obvious conflict with the card reader & how all the boot order is established. Although I did have the Marvell take over the boot order a couple of times, it never caused the OS to not load as normal or cause any problems while in Windows. http://support.msi.com/

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