I tried to follow your instructions but no matter what I did I could not get this installed. How are you installing this? Are you connecting your USB stick to a rear port? I get stuck at either ACPI or USB initialization.
I've given up on Intel fixing this problem, It's been over a year and no go so I'm going to order a Supermicro board. I have several friends that have had ESXi fixes pushed out for motherboards that are over 3 years older then this one! Now that is customer service, I'll avoid Intel MB's going forward if this is what we can expect.