Z87-GD65 weirdness

Hi,
I just installed a Z87-GD65 in my desktop, replacing a Z68a-GD65. Booted up to my old windows install, let the drivers install, installed the ones that were missing from CD. Installed LiveUpdate 6. Flashed the BIOS to 1.A, and rebooted. The board does not want to reboot, but when I power it off and then power on again, it boots just fine.
So then I go to install the updated drivers in LiveUpdate and got all of them installed, but I am getting an error with the Intel ME drivers. When I pick Download, it gives me an error that the computer doesn't meet the minimum system requirements. So I rebooted and tried again, without success. Eventually, something happened, I'm not sure what, and now every time I power down to reboot, it powers on, sits with a black screen for about 20 seconds, powers off again, then back on and displays a screen that indicates the CMOS settings were cleared and to press F1 to enter setup or F2 to continue.
Any insight or assistance with this issue will be appreciated.

I did a little more research on switching the BIOS while the machine is booted, something akin to the really old method of recovery of booting a known good board, removing the BIOS chip (when they were removable) while the system was booted and inserting the bad board's chip, then flashing, which would allow you to recover the bad board.
I was able to successfully flash. Details and steps below.
When I initially flashed to 1.B using mFlash, the screen went black on me mid-flash but I wasn't looking at it to see what percentage it was at. I let it sit for somewhere between 30-60 seconds before powering down and trying to boot again. It didn't look good because the screen didn't come on. So I switched to B but later on switched back to A to play around with it and see if I could get anything. That's when I got stuck and posted the original message.
After much research, if you go into setup on B, load up mFlash, select the USB stick, switch to A, then select the file to flash, it will flash the A chip.
So because of the problem I had before, I decided to watch it like a hawk. I lost video again. It was at 47%. I let it sit. This time for 2-3 minutes after the video cut out, figuring that the previous flash must have continued anyways and that it wouldn't reboot properly on it's own anyways, and that the previous flash must have gotten really close to the end in order for it to not have been a completely failed flash.
That seems to have done the trick. I powered it down, powered up, no video. Powered down again. Powered up, got video for a few seconds, then lost it again. Powered down a third time, powered up and it booted straight into Windows.
My guess is that whatever is causing the reboots to fail, when I power it down, that's doing the same thing that the reboots would have done.
Now I get to test the reboot issue on the latest BIOS and make sure that I can actually save my setup settings. If I have any issues with either of those, I'll make a new thread.

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