Hallelujah Came back after taking the little one to watch ant man. Left the batter out and PC powered off. Powered on. No beeps of death and back in on my one working bios.
Now that I’m back in. Shall I try again....
nope call it a day and stick with what I have.

I think I’m now out for the count. Same issue again with the blank screen and the shutdown or reboot on my working bios. I guess last hopes now with evga see if they can or will be willing to send me a bios chip.

It’s a real shame. As trying to buy a new classified is non existent.

118KillBill
Briefly hangs on 4F before carrying on and sticking on 71

Code 71 from the manual... 
 
"South Bridge DXE SMM initialization is started"
 
Something is definitely up with the board. I'd call evga and ask tech support what vd1-vd5 all flashing means.

So I finally took the plunge and updated my Z97ftw BIOS. BIOS wouldn't recognize my SSD SATA drive after I rebooted which has my Windows installation. It showed in the SATA device listing, but the boot priority listing would only list my HDD instead with a bunch of other cd/dvd/usb options. After playing around repeatedly by changing the SATA plug into different SATA ports I was able to get it to recognize my SSD in the boot priority list, but now it doesn't list my HDD. In the master SATA list both devices are listed and after I boot up both drives are working. What a mess. I don't know what is going on, but it's as though the BIOS is only recognizing the first device detected at all for boot priority device list and then ignoring any SATA devices beyond that. That would explain why initially my SSD SATA drive which was plugged into SATA #6 wasn't being recognized over my HDD SATA plugged in at #2. 

Sajin

fearpoint
So I finally took the plunge and updated my Z97ftw BIOS. BIOS wouldn't recognize my SSD SATA drive after I rebooted which has my Windows installation. It showed in the SATA device listing, but the boot priority listing would only list my HDD instead with a bunch of other cd/dvd/usb options. After playing around repeatedly by changing the SATA plug into different SATA ports I was able to get it to recognize my SSD in the boot priority list, but now it doesn't list my HDD. In the master SATA list both devices are listed and after I boot up both drives are working. What a mess. I don't know what is going on, but it's as though the BIOS is only recognizing the first device detected at all for boot priority device list and then ignoring any SATA devices beyond that. That would explain why initially my SSD SATA drive which was plugged into SATA #6 wasn't being recognized over my HDD SATA plugged in at #2. 

Sounds like you'll need to go back to a older bios version.

Well it's working, so I'm not going to mess with it. 

fearpoint
So I finally took the plunge and updated my Z97ftw BIOS. BIOS wouldn't recognize my SSD SATA drive after I rebooted which has my Windows installation. It showed in the SATA device listing, but the boot priority listing would only list my HDD instead with a bunch of other cd/dvd/usb options. After playing around repeatedly by changing the SATA plug into different SATA ports I was able to get it to recognize my SSD in the boot priority list, but now it doesn't list my HDD. In the master SATA list both devices are listed and after I boot up both drives are working. What a mess. I don't know what is going on, but it's as though the BIOS is only recognizing the first device detected at all for boot priority device list and then ignoring any SATA devices beyond that. That would explain why initially my SSD SATA drive which was plugged into SATA #6 wasn't being recognized over my HDD SATA plugged in at #2. 

Kinda late to the party, with what I read, not going to flash yet on my Z97 Classified, unless someone can convince me to take the plunge ...  :)
 
Found something similar when testing a SSD, or even after I just cloned my OS boot drive to a new one (old one was SATA II - moving to SATA III to get better throughput)
 
I have three SATA drives in my rig, the boot drive and two used for storage, until now all were the same model.
 
What I found was that the board seemed "Confused" as to which one to boot to upon initial boot after trying the cloned SSD or my new cloned HDD, get "NTLDR is missing".
 
However that said, if I then power off, disconnect the two drives used for storage and then boot, it's all good - boots to 10, then after shutting down and reconnecting the other two drives, it's fine with all three.
 
 So ... For now I'd say anyone running into the above getting boot issues try just your boot drive to get back tot eh OS, then add your others afterwards and see if that works for you.
 
 The question for me remains - should I flash it? 2.04 to 2.06 on Z97 Classified.