This is very discouraging to hear, especially since I'm currently choosing a motherboard for a new PC build. Is there any good way to determine the quality of motherboard firmware? Are there any recommended vendors?
ASRock, as you see from this HN posting, has a reputation for not being quite as polished. Probably best to skip for now if you don't want to be messing with potential weirdness.
If you're looking for higher end things, Supermicro boards are good. Recent weirdness - "Chinese installed backdoors on Supermicro boards" - aside that is. ;)