While installing the DH87RL, I accidently set the BIOS to always use internal graphics and my monitor is incompatible and unable to use the internal graphics. This resulted in me not being able to view the BIOS without first resetting the BIOS back to its defaults.
I looked up in the user guide on how to reset the BIOS, it gave the following (below), remove the BIOS recovery jumper and then select the following:
1) Suppress this menu until the BIOS Security Jumper is replaced.
2) Clear BIOS User and Supervisor Passwords.
3) Reset Intel AMT to default factory settings.
4) Clear Trusted Platform Module.
Three issues with this:
1) You should be able to reset the BIOS to its defaults without a monitor. I screwed it up so I wasn't able to use a monitor and you can't navigate menus without a monitor. Was I supposed to guess whether it was displaying the text and start hitting 3 when I thought it was loaded up?
2) For some incomprehensible reason, when I did find a monitor that was supported by the internal graphics, when it got to the menu there was no #3 Reset to default factor settings. It had 3 options which included #1, #2, and #4 above. It was missing the menu option to actually reset the BIOS to defaults. The choices actually listed are next to worthless.
3) The only way to reset BIOS to defaults is to successfully boot into BIOS and to then instruct it to load defaults. This is completely crazy. There are many cases in which you need to restore defaults and you won't be able to complete entry into BIOS.
Details:
1) I tried removing the battery, power, etc. I even waited for 8 hours for everything to discharge. Nothing cleared the settings.
2) I was using the latest posted BIOS as of 11/20/2013. Which is RLH8710H.86A (10/3/2013)
Please change to allow a reset to defaults without entering BIOS, but if that isn't possible, at a minimum please actually implement the reset mechanism as specified in the board's own product guide.