Well my very old P5B Deluxe is now rocking a SM961 PERFECTLY and as easy as could be.

I downloaded the latest Windows 10 1709 iso using MediaCreationTool. Then I downloaded the latest Rufus and flashed the ISO onto a 32GB flash drive using "GPT for UEFI only". That worked perfectly. Then I created the DUET with REFIND onto the old CF card, booted up to DUET with the REFIND UI, it instantaneously saw my Windows 10 installer, I clicked on it and Windows 10 installed PERFECTLY. Now when I boot this old system it just automatically boots Windows 10 without a hitch on a GPT formatted NVMe Samsung SM961. Couldn't have been any easier. For some reason that even felt easier and faster than my much more powerful and newer Rampage III Extreme, haha. Thanks again @noInk for this wonderful implementation of DUET and for making it work with REFIND.

Now to sell some stuff so I can finally upgrade to Ryzen, lol. I waited a year for the refresh and it's almost here. w00t

Hey guys. Have figured out how to get rid of that annoying Red 'Welcome to EFI World' garbage text and get rid of the delay while the logo displays with Duet. Not sure if the Op here has made those optimizations or not. If anyone wants..

Zitat von davidm71 im Beitrag #197

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Hey guys. Have figured out how to get rid of that annoying Red 'Welcome to EFI World' garbage text and get rid of the delay while the logo displays with Duet. Not sure if the Op here has made those optimizations or not. If anyone wants..

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@SkOrPn

At that point the memory is getting mapped\reserved for the system.
Since skipping that part make the OS incapable to see over the dafault fallback value (2GB) and hiding the process doesn't change the required time, I opted to leave some visual feedback

Zitat von noInk im Beitrag #199

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@SkOrPn

At that point the memory is getting mapped\reserved for the system.
Since skipping that part make the OS incapable to see over the dafault fallback value (2GB) and hiding the process doesn't change the required time, I opted to leave some visual feedback

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Well I looked into the code and there is a five second hard pause just for the logo. I can get rid of that and the red testing memory info.

@davidm71

There no timeout or debug info on screen on the version available on the first page.

Then its all good! Just digging in to the EDK2 source code.

For example did you know they included useless 'Helloworld' code in there. Could be removed to make it leaner..

Zitat von davidm71 im Beitrag #203

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Then its all good! Just digging in to the EDK2 source code.

For example did you know they included useless 'Helloworld' code in there. Could be removed to make it leaner..

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@SkOrPn,

Looks good! Nice job modding the DuetPkg!

Didn't realize how far it has evolved. Thumbs up!

Zitat von davidm71 im Beitrag #205

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@SkOrPn,

Looks good! Nice job modding the DuetPkg!

Didn't realize how far it has evolved. Thumbs up!

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@SkOrPn

Well.. I did some, long story short:
That version, again, on the first page, is actually a sort of cherry build updated to 2017 since I manually updated (or modified) each of the module and the related components to allow the X58 to boot.
If you download the current ( or > than AUG 2013 ) GIT source version of EDK, chance are it will not boot on our platform.

Zitat von noInk im Beitrag #207

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@SkOrPn

Well.. I did some, long story short:
That version, again, on the first page, is actually a sort of cherry build updated to 2017 since I manually updated (or modified) each of the module and the related components to allow the X58 to boot.
If you download the current ( or > than AUG 2013 ) GIT source version of EDK, chance are it will not boot on our platform.

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@SkOrPn

Dunno! anyway, the 1E microcode for our CPU is out.
There some loss, depending by the task, coming with.

Hmm, 1E microcode? Is that an update to address Meltdown perhaps?