Bizzare BIOS behavior with regard to RAM ECC mode

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Hi all. I currently have this motherboard with " Super Talent 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 PC3-12800E 240-Pin ECC Unbuffered UDIMM Ram" ram.

I’m running into a strange issue, where upon any reboot of the system causes the RAM to drop into non-ECC mode as follows:

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I cannot find a setting anywhere within the BIOS to alter this setting, the only remedy is to clear the CMOS. Which does work, but only until I have to reboot again. The BIOS is updated to the newest version as well, so I’m a bit stuck as to where to go next. Granted, I usually only take it down every 6 months or so but it’s a pain hooking up a monitor every time just to validate the ECC status.

Testing the ECC functions with the full version of Memtest yielded no errors, so I’m fairly confident that the RAM I have truly is capable of operating in ECC mode. I’m truly stumped, I have never seen this kind of behavior before, and based on the searches I’ve made through various forums, neither has anyone else.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Matty

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Is your BIOS up to date?

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I should also add that the CPU is an E3-1230 V2 if that changes anything.

I’m confident I fully updated it, but I’m just now noticing that pic says BIOS version 2.15, yet it seems 2.3 is available. Will look into that.

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It seem that 2.15 at the bottom actually refers to the Aptio Setup Utility version, not the BIOS version. I entered BIOS just now and the main screen reported that I am indeed on the latest BIOS version 2.3.

Although now I’m kind of wishing that’s all the problem was…