Well, I thought it was fixed with A14 but my computer is now totally unuseable with A14. Dell should hire me as a software stress tester as I am on my third motherboard. All I did was use Shift + RESTART to take the Windows 8 shortcut to SETUP which is same access to BIOS with an F2 upon a powerup. I was going to add a boot device but instead my 7720 now only goes to the F12 Boot Options page and SETUP path is now missing there so I have absolutely no access to the BIOS and it will not boot off C: drive. I tried to boot a Win 8 Repair DVD(UEFI) but that will not boot with the corruption so I am assuming Windows Boot Manager is corrupt as well. My BIOS is really shot now. I was going to wait 2 weeks before trying A14 and I should have stuck to that. Fortunately Dell was easy to get on this quiet Sunday night and have decided to take the machine back for diagnosis which is better than just throwing another motherboard at it. It has to be A14 since A13 had been very good. By the way A14 was okay for a week until I tried the Shift RESTART path to Advanced Startup Options in Win 8.
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