American Megatrends (Press F1 to enter Setup) sometimes during cold boot

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hapibanana21

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What is the common cause when this problem happens? Before I replaced my stock CPU fan with a liquid cooler, I was having an alternate between CPU Fan Error, New CPU Installed and just press F1 with no indication of errors in the American Megatrends. Having guessed that this might be caused by the stock CPU Fan not running properly, I thought that this problem would be gone already. Now I am sometimes having a press F1 page with no indication of errors or something. I was am thinking now if it is the CMOS battery that is causing this problem. Though I have my OC settings saved, it's kind of annoying that this resets all my settings. Note than this also happened even before I OCed my computer.
 
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The only other thing I can think of is what sata controller are you plugged into? If it's not intels controller i'd suggest plugging your hard drive into that one to see if there's a difference. There's a reason venders push out revision bios updates for motherboards. You can try replacing your cmos battery, but if your bios is keeping the proper time, I doubt that's the issue. Until you update the bios, there's not much else this forum can do for you.
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It is a P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT paired with an i5 3570K processor. Not really sure what the problem is as this happens very randomly. Sometimes it won't happen in a whole month, sometimes it happens twice a week.
 
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hapibanana21

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According to Windows I am currently Running "American Megatrends Inc. 1504, 8/1/2012" version. I did not update the BIOS ever since I bought it. Would a corrupted BIOS probably be the problem? I encountered very few blackouts over the years while using the computer, not sure if one of those might have caused this. Don't really want to fiddle with updating the BIOS if it is not necessary.
 
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hapibanana21

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I already searched countless threads regarding my problem and no one has an exact answer except to try and replace/reseat the parts one by one so I tried to ask once again and thought that maybe someone has an exact answer which can help me save alot of time fiddling with this computer. Will try to check my CMOS battery. Might really be the faulty part.
 
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The only other thing I can think of is what sata controller are you plugged into? If it's not intels controller i'd suggest plugging your hard drive into that one to see if there's a difference. There's a reason venders push out revision bios updates for motherboards. You can try replacing your cmos battery, but if your bios is keeping the proper time, I doubt that's the issue. Until you update the bios, there's not much else this forum can do for you.
 
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