Been down this road before

I have a very stable build; real set it and forget kinda thing. Except...every time I DO make, the smallest change; my GigaByte freaks out!
In this case...it’s simply swapping out, the bootable USB flash; and I’m stuck at ‘verifying DMI pool data’.
I’ve searched, of course; and resetting to defaults didn’t do the trick.
I monkeyed with a few other things; but please oh please...I loathe pulling the case open, and clearing the CMOS!
Help!?
P.S. I think my board, is a GA-790XTA-UD4