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Speccy will not show you anything that fail safe vs optimized uses, nothing to check there. Trust me, I know these boards and how they act in all situations.
What you mentioned about CPU, I forget all about any of that, please refresh me with details. Why did Xeon not work, it should be working, did I do the BIOS mod? Are you sure the Xeon works? Did you put back stock BIOS after that, or not? I do remember you having issues with RAID ROMs etc, and all that mess.
Cold start issues are sometimes common with certain BIOS (Usually older BIOS worse than newer/latest beta etc) Can also sometimes be caused by CMOS related issues, if every time your CMOS is cleared when powered down, each cold boot may be loading fail safe due to that too, but the memory beeps (many fast) when this happens is due to memory/settings alone not just failed CMOS saving or fail safe loading auto due to whatever reason. Do you have multi meter? If yes, remove your CMOS battery and check if it's at 3V or above, if less than 3V when testing off the board, then you need new CMOS battery