X99 Sli Plus WHEA 17 Errors.....Again

So I decided to go back to MSI and bought my second X99 Sli Plus board. Thinking that by installing the latest bios (5 revisions since I had the first X99 Sli Plus) that of the kinks would be worked out. Sure enough after updating everything and reinstalling all of the newest drivers. WHEA logger 17 errors are once again flooding my System logs.
Is there a fix for this?
I went to an x99 Asus board for a while, and had no issues. After searching around, both Evga and Asrock have fixed this with Bios's.
Please for the love of god someone tell me how to make this stop other than disabling event viewer. It's annoying to no end.

Hi I have the same whea logger 17 issue again and again on my MSI X99 SLI PLUS!
I have the latest nvidia installed, the bios is the version 1.8, the graphic card is galax gtx 980 SOC (factory overcolocked).
For now I found a solution which is not a real solution. If you force from the bios PCI-E to GEN2 (in place of auto or GEN3, that is PCI-E 3.0), the whea logger errors suddenly disappear.
That's why I think the problem is a bios problem. Maybe next bios update must be focused on solving the issue. It's like we are not able to run gen 3 cards in this way.
Please MSI fix this issue in the next bios update!!!!
(or If somebody know how to solve this issue in a different way please help us out)

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