@kamokar :

Hi,
Can you describe what did you do in order to get it running?
I purchased a HP Z Turbo Drive G2 that has SM951 installed.
It is not visible in my system in BIOS nor in Windows
I was trying to mod my BIOS with NVM modules but it does not work
I have ASUS P9X79WS MOBO with Intel i7-4930K CPU.
What M.2/PCIE Adapter do you use?
Regards,
Sebastian

EDIT by Fernando: This post may be misleading, because the user kamokar reported about the AHCI variant of the SM951, whereas the author of this post obviously has a Samsung SM951, which supports the NVMe protocol.

so basically i can plug this
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-850-EVO-3-...W/dp/B00TGIVY1G
into this
http://www.amazon.com/Sedna-Express-Adap...t/dp/B00XU7N0JS
on this
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H81GAMER/overview/
(yep...i already got an 850 M.2 looking like a useless laptop wifi card right now )

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded blank lines removed (to save space and to improve the readability)

well does that mean my bios will recognize the M.2 drive through the pci adapter as a boot drive without the rom injecting ?

edit: never mind i got it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gABlQz0ktd0

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #155

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@agablex:
Maybe you will have to insert a special BIOS module to get the AHCI supporting Samsung M.2 SSD bootable. For details please look into >this< thread.
The insertion of an NVMe supporting BIOS module is useless, because your desired SSD does not support the NVMe protocol.

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@Fernando

Thanks for the information that you posted on here, I was able to get a SM951 (AHCI varient) to boot with a ASUS Maximus VI Hero, via a ASUS Hyper M.2 x4 Mini PCIe Kit.
I followed your instruction >here< to create a MOD BIOS, based on the latest BIOS for Maximus Hero VI build 1603, and inserted the "SAMSUNG_M2_DXE" module provided >here< by our Forum member xelanaiznac.

To flash the motherboard with this MOD BIOS, I also had to do the Asus BIOS Flashback method, basically updating the BIOS with a USB drive via the designated USB Port on the back. The MOD BIOS had to be renamed to "M6H.CAP" for this to work as well. Instruction provided by Fernando >here<

Without the MOD BIOS, SM951 would not show up under UEFI/BIOS; I was only able to access the SM951 SSD under Windows 10. Only after flashing the Maximus VI Hero with the MOD BIOS that I was able to see SM951 being listed in Boot Menu under UEFI/BIOS, which allows me to set it as the main boot drive.

@Fernando ,

Thank you for your guide and all the information you provided to fix my Bios. I finally succeeded to boot on my SM951 AHCI (was initially only recognized by OS, not BIOS). The "SAMSUNG_M2_DXE" module did nothing with my Aptio V. Maybe because of the NVMe EFI modules already there (nvme, nvmeint13, nvmesmm), my laptop had a PM951 NVMe at first. So the only way for me had to add the "pciesatacontroller" module with MMTool to get the AHCI boot, I found it here (seems to be a standard module as this is from desktop mainboard).

@Fernando

My laptop is a Razer Blade Stealth. If someone want to have a look to the original BIOS, Razer do not directly release their BIOS but it can be found inside their "Razer Blade Stealth Updater" <HERE> by uncompressing the .exe (inside the BIOS file is named 0651.bin).

Hi guys,
I just want to report my successful installation of the mod bios on my sabertooth 990fx 2.0 using your method. Even with a pcie 2.0 port, the speed up is above expectations.
Installed a Samsung sm951 ahci 128gb with a pcie adapter in pci express port x16.The actual bios I've modified is 2901, who fortunately already supports nvme.
Hope this info is useful for someone and thanks for your tutorial.

Hi Fernando, I successfully flashed my Crosshair V Formula Z motherboard with the Samsung AHCI module. Also, I updated the other modules with UBU, but I had to use the MMTool for APTIO IV motherboards to get the USB Flashback method to work (just an advice for everyone). I have some questions for you, Felix posted in the ASUS forums that he didn't make the Samsung 951 M2 SSD bootable, so I'd like to buy the 951 (AHCI or NVME), but knowing it won't boot in my motherboard; can I install the Samsung NVME module instead?. Also, the NVME version is cheaper than the AHCI (half price) and as you said it performs better. Is possible to install a NVME ssd on AMD motherboards?, I know the Sabertooth motherboards can successful boot this drive, probably if I extract the module from that bios (GEN3 ver.) could make this drive boot.

Thank you!!

P.D. Here's the ASUS forum where Felix posted: https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.ph...-o-CHVF-Z/page3