Z87-G43 Bios crashing, not showing information

I just built a new system using the Z87-G43. Everything was fine, I just installed a pci-e esata card using the Silicon Image SI3132 SATALink Controller.
My computer will not boot unless I have my external bay on and a drive installed. If I don't have the bay turned on and a drive installed, I get the A2 error.
I had previous esata cards and never had this issue.
Also, now when I enter Bios setup, virtually no information is displayed. I see only Advanced and Password as options in the main screen. If I click where the other options are, Bios freezes.
I'm pretty sure this didn't happen until I put the new esata card in.
Can anybody help me figure out what is going on?
Should I be concerned my Bios is going to fail or become corrupt?
I can't be sure but I was able to read this number at the top of the Bios page, E7816IMS V1.6
I would like to make sure I have the latest Bios but am weary of using Live Update due to all the horror stories.
If anybody has any insight as to what is going on, I really would appreciate some help.
Thank you!

Update;
My BIOS update to v1.7 seemed to go ok, haven't noticed any problems. I also updated the Intel ME drivers, that went fine as well.
Weird, even when my bios (v1.6) was corrupt, my system would boot without issue (not sure if the A2 error was due to bios or a piece of my hardware).
Anyways, I had a pci-e esata card PEXESAT3221, couldn't get it to show the drives inside my 4 bay esata enclosure. It was just like they weren't attached or the enclosure was not powered on. After much frustration, I moved on to a different card.
Card two, SD-SA2PEX-2E, This card would only see one drive in my enclosure (when I had more than one installed) in My Computer. I could 'see' the drives in the bottom pane of Disk Management, then could right click on the drive and select 'change drive letter and path' and that drive would show up in My Computer and was available. I had to do this for every drive. If I moved a drive or swapped drives, I would have to go through the process again. If I rebooted, I would again have to go through the process to be able to 'see' more than one drive. I was working with the manufacturer of the card and they kept telling me to install the latest drivers, which I did but the latest drivers were only compatible with card bios v 7.7.02 (my card was 7.7.03). Their website stated that bios and driver versions needed to be matched. For some reason, I could never get them to understand that the driver for bios 7.7.02 was not working as my card had bios 7.7.03. So, out of frustration, I nixed the card and went back to the first card.
Now, same thing as before, this card just would not show any drives. I checked the installation of the driver and it showed the latest, v 1.3.8.0 Asmedia 106x. I did some research and discovered that some people were discussing drivers for this device they found on a foreign website, not affiliated with the card vendor. I took a chance and downloaded those drivers, v 2.0.8.0 and what do you know? Everything works fine now, so far (still have to do some testing before I'm absolutely convinced)...
Feels good to see my drives show up when I power on my enclosure, or swap drives etc...
Not sure why a motherboard bios update would change the behavior of a pci-e card like this but I feel fortunate to have struggled through. I appreciate all the help and advice, thanks fellas.

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