System Won't Post to UEFI or boot

I was trying to upgrade to a SSD boot drive on my h9-1420t running Window 8 Pro 64 bit.  I modified the UEFI to legacy enabled and changed the boot order.  Boot failed.  I am unable to boot to windows or the UEFI.  No beeps.  I have tried clearing the cmos both via the battery and the jumper.  Still does not work.  Removing all sata cables and power to the devices also did not help.  When I removed both memory sticks, I did get 5 beeps.  Is there a way to reset the UEFI to system defaults in this situation?
Thank you for your assistance.
Mike

I thought I was being careful with static etc, hopefully it isn't the motherboard. 
I have seen some threads that UEFI settings are kept even after clearing CMOS.  I was hoping there was some "hardware" way to know that the UEFI was restored to system defaults.
Thanks for your thoughts, Paul.  Appreciate it!
Mike

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    line to grub and now my system won't boot. I get an error saying something about syslog service not enabled and then a black screen. I can boot my machine fine without the "init=/bin/systemd" line but I want to run a pure systemd system since Arch is moving to it anyway. In the wiki it mentions to install systemd-sysvcompat but it conflicts with initscripts it says. What am I doing wrong or missing?
    Last edited by fettouhi (2013-12-08 14:42:04)

    fettouhi wrote:
    Thanks for the clarification about the DAEMONS list. My DAEMONS list is:
    DAEMONS=(!hwclock ntpd syslog-ng !network netfs crond @alsa dbus networkmanager ufw cupsd avahi-daemon samba)
    when I try to enable alsa and dbus I get this
    [root@andre ~]# systemctl enable alsa-store.service
    The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
    [root@andre ~]# systemctl enable alsa-restore.service
    The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
    [root@andre ~]# systemctl enable dbus.service
    The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
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    I made the permanent transition to systemd and did not start alsa at all - sound works fine - so I never bothered with the alsa-store/alsa-restore service files at all - it just works! Also dbus gets handled by default in systemd so you don't need any starting of dbus service at all... it just works.

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