Yeah…this last round was pretty good for the motherboards I got. Only 1 out of 10 wouldn’t post, but that was due to poor information regarding the type of RAM. Once I got that straightened out all was good.
Your experience is why I rarely say X brand is the best. I’ve had Asus/MSI/ASRock/Gigabyte/Tyan/Supermicro all work flawlessly and be a complete nightmare for no reason. It’s a chance one has to take. I just hope that the chipset has had a little chance to mature enough so most of the “major” hiccups have been worked out by either bios updates or chipset drivers.