Pump It Up MK9 - "Read Error" Warning on Boot

What happens:
When the system is turned on, you are greeted with a black screen with the message "Read Error" in the top left corner.

MK9 Motherboards:
Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2, Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2L, GA-945GCM-S2C, Asrock G41M-S3, Asrock G41C-GS

Steps to Replicate:
Replicated the error while running a Fiesta 2 HDD on a MK9v2 (Asrock G41M-S3) in SATA 1 port.

Solution:
When using SATA ports 2-4, it seems to boot with no problems.

Other things to check:
I suspect the bootloader has the boot partition confused or there is a config issue in the BIOS as others have reported restoring the BIOS to default settings or re-flashing the BIOS. So that is always something else to try.