Z370 Taichi won't boot after BIOS update

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   I had a stable system running 1.30 BIOS and Windows 1803. Decided to update to 1.80 BIOS and now I get a boot loop with a Windows Blue Screen MEMORY1 INITIALIZATION ERROR message. Windows will eventually try to repair but repair attempt fails.  I downgraded back to 1.30 but I still get the same message. Any ideas? I'm thinking maybe it has something to do with CSM or Secure Boot? Or clear BIOS? I don't want to mess with too much and make the problem worse.

ASRock Z370 Taichi
Intel i7-8700k
G.Skill 2x8GB DDR-4 3200 XMP 2.0 14-14-14-34 1.35V
2 x Samsung 860 EVO 500GB RAID1

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gman737 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 30 Jan 2018 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote gman737 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Z370 Taichi won't boot after BIOS update Posted: 28 May 2018 at 8:45am
	I had a stable system running 1.30 BIOS and Windows 1803. Decided to update to 1.80 BIOS and now I get a boot loop with a Windows Blue Screen MEMORY1 INITIALIZATION ERROR message. Windows will eventually try to repair but repair attempt fails. I downgraded back to 1.30 but I still get the same message. Any ideas? I'm thinking maybe it has something to do with CSM or Secure Boot? Or clear BIOS? I don't want to mess with too much and make the problem worse. ASRock Z370 Taichi Intel i7-8700k G.Skill 2x8GB DDR-4 3200 XMP 2.0 14-14-14-34 1.35V 2 x Samsung 860 EVO 500GB RAID1

badbri Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 20 Feb 2018 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 415	Post Options Post Reply Quote badbri Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 May 2018 at 10:03am
	Rule #1: never update BIOS on a good working computer, specially when running RAID. This poster got his failed RAID working, read the thread: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=8502&KW=raid&PID=50427 Edited by badbri - 28 May 2018 at 10:04am
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