@Lost_N_BIOS you seem to be everywhere on this forum and the master of modded Bios ;)

I've updated my RIVBE with your Version posted here. I can see the drive in the bios. When I'm in windows, I can see the drive as well. I've cloned my current SSD drive to the NVMe drive and have had no luck in being able to boot up from the NVMe drive after the cloning. I've tried this with 3 different brands; Sabrent, Samsung and WD Black. All of which the booting of windows has failed. I've tried the cloning with Acronis and Samsung Magician with no luck. Closest I've gotten was with the Samsung NVMe cloned, it will start to boot, but then blue screens with the whea_uncorrectable error.
So I've moved on to just trying to install fresh from USB to the 3 different drives and each one has crashed. I've tried using the Asus Hyper M.2 adapter with 4 slots, no good. I've tried a single RIITOP adapter, no good. I purchased a Super Micro 2 slot M.2 card and no luck with that setup either.

At first I was thinking maybe something wrong with my hardware. But the problem seems to be at the exact point everytime during the windows install. I can leave the computer running for hours on the initial Windows Setup Prompt, but once I get into the nitty gritty part where it starts copying the windows files, it'll crash. Now if I stay persistent, I can just about get all the way through the setup after alot of restarts, and selecting some prompts through the process as fast a possible. But even then, once installed, it crashes with the whea_uncorrectable error message. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I have managed to setup NVMe Win10 boot disk on 3 different Asus x79 boards (although not RIVBE) and even Dell T3610 either by cloning or fresh install. Have you changed your system to use UEFI boot mode? Legacy boot mode does not work.

Hey thanks for replying. I managed to figure it out. Turns out my issue was voltage related. I don't know why though? I was able to reinstall using SSD on Sata ports no problem, but using a NVMe in the PCIe slots resulted in crashes. Under Lost_N_Bios suggestion, I went and upped my CPU's voltage from stock to 1.24v, which resulted in a BOOT finally, no crashes yet. Now I'm onto another issue, which from my understanding with Bifurication enabled, I should be able to see both my NVMe drives but I can't.

I'm using a SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 adapter with 2 Sabrent NVMe 1tb drives on it, of which I can only see 1. I've switched the drives around and noticed at first I could only see the one drive and changed the setting from x4x4x4x4 to x4x4x8 I believe, if I remember correctly, and I noticed both LED indicators flickered. 1 flickered a quick sec, while the other one which is the boot drive flickered and booted. I'll keep at it and hopefully figure this out so I can have both drives available.

*So I've double checked. I can only get it to boot if I have it set to x4x4x8. None of the other variations seem to work? I figured maybe the x4x4x4x4 would, but no go.

Any advice is appreciated.

When I had 2 NVMe disks mounted to ports 1 & 2 of Asus Hyper x16, which should be similar setup as yours, the 8x PCIe slot bifurcated to 4x4x worked on P9X79D, RIVE and RIVG boards. However it seems that RIVBE does not have a 8x PCIe slot so you may be out of luck.

I believe this whole thing is related to the same issue as @JackSted has already reported: with 16x PCIe slots only ports a & c are available. It seems something is missing in the bios.

@Lost_N_BIOS & @biosphere

I have finally managed to get my setup to work!! I bumped the Voltage for the CPU to 1.28v.

I've moved my Video Card to the 3rd PCIe x16 slot.
Then Moved 1 NVMe Adapter to the 1st PCIe x16 slot.
Finally relocated the SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 adapter to the 2nd PCIe x8 Slot and then set the Bifurication to 4x4.

I can now see all 3 NVMe drives... and boot from the NVMe drive as well.

Lost_N_Bios, your mod is much appreciated man. Saved me from upgrading before I wanted to.

Now, as you can tell from the pic, I have to reorganize my case again lol, I ripped her apart so many times trying to get this setup to work, I actually somehow crossed a hose, broke an acrylic tube and just made a mess of the entire area in and around my PC lol.

Next build will be a Micro build ;) , no particular reason other than to just do it as small as possible.

Thank you for the bios

I bought 2 m.2 samsung drives
I managed to install win 10 on one of them
Win shows both drives

How do I make raid 0 ?

My only option is when installing windows 10 to load raid drivers? Wich one ? Intel rst?

Thanks

You can't.
X79 doesn't have NVMe RAID needed for pre-Windows installation.

You can run software RAID0 if you don't have OS installed on NVMe drives (since driver isn't needed at that point).

Thanks to @agentx007 for the BIOSes, and for @Lost_N_BIOS for the bifurcation mod!

Spent a good couple hours banging my head on this. My current (now previous) BIOS had the following stuff:

RST Ver 15.1.0.2545 (How i made that work, i don't know)
NVMe support (v3 i think)
LAN Ver 0.0.19 / 0.1.13
2018 microcode updates

Then, i tried to take the Version A with Bifurcation, and tried to slap the following updates

RST Ver 15.1.0.2545 (to keep the same mess i had before)
NVMe support (v4, same as included)
LAN Ver 0.0.29 / 0.1.16
2019/2020 microcode updates

And whenever i did this, the board just refused to boot (showing either code 00 or 19). After some trial and error, i found out that updating RST took everything down for some ungodly reason, so i left it at v13.1.0.2126. I was able to update LAN and uCode, and it POSTed just fine. It was also able to boot from my 960 Pro on slot 2 (the x8 one) without issues, just as before. Also, i now see the bifurcation options in the BIOS (along with a mountain of other options that weren't there before).

Now, i have a couple questions.

- How could i add RSTe to this BIOS? I cannot seem to be able to update much of anything storage-related without soft-bricking the board (thank goodness for true dual BIOS and BIOS Flashback). I'd like to have RSTe v5.4.0.1039 support on it (if possible, if not then v4.7.0.1017), along with RST v13.1.
- I know the RIVBE has 3 ASM1061 SATA controllers, but so far, none of the BIOSes i have (even stock ones from ASUS website) include any extra FW for them, but the RIVE BIOSes do. Are those not really needed on the RIVBE? Or does the RIVE just use different chips?

EDIT: Uploaded my BIOS mod.

Randomly got my hands on a RIVBE... Saw this amazing thread. So should I do VerA+Bifurc or VerB+Bifurc? @Lost_N_BIOS at it again I see... Hopefully the X79-Deluxe modding helped you on this board :D

Zitat von Xenophobian im Beitrag #24

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Randomly got my hands on a RIVBE... Saw this amazing thread. So should I do VerA+Bifurc or VerB+Bifurc? @Lost_N_BIOS at it again I see... Hopefully the X79-Deluxe modding helped you on this board :D

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Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #13

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@agentx007 @madindian - Yes, Bifurcation mod can be done on this BIOS as well, please give me some time and I will make for you guys based on "Version A"
* Edit >> Asus RAMPAGE-IV-BLACK-EDITION-0801-Version-A-Birurcation

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@Xenophobian - Yes, tinypload has been down for a week+ - hopefully they come back soon!
Mirror added at original post

Well, i can confirm this works, at least as well as expected. No matter which slot i use, i can never see more than two SSDs, and depending on the options, i see slots 1&3, 1&4, 2&3 and 2&4. Despite that, it does work. Hopefully some day this will be fully usable with all 4 SSDs in a single x16 slot.

Looks like an active R4BE thread, maybe I can derail it for a moment since finding people with this board isn't easy. Long story short : I've got a rampage IV black edition that had a bad iROG chip, replaced the chip but now need to load firmware onto it. The iROG chip firmware is not available anywhere online, but it is possible (and easy) to dump from a working board.


The process is simple.

0) Power off system completely (atx supply unplugged)

1) Locate the DEBUG jumper (2*4 pins) near the CE marking between the lowest two pcieX16 slots. Pin 1 is towards the rear (i/o side) bottom (away from the cpu) and is marked on the pcb. Pin ordering is:

2 4 6 8

1 3 5 7


2) Connect a jumper across pins 5 and 7. This will enable bootloader mode on the embedded controller. The board will not function normally when in bootloader mode, thats ok.

3) Connect RX and TX from a 3.3v USB UART to pins 1 and 3. 1=TxD, 3=RxD

4) Connect the USB UART to another computer.

5) Turn on the ATX power supply. The embedded controller works off of 3.3v standby (derived from 5vsb), so the board doesn't really nee to be 'on' in the normal sense for this to work.

6) Run the application (found on some Russian board repair forum) here and press the blue dump button. Provide a filename and after a minute or so you'll have a dump of the embedded controller firmware.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1exVNC-c...iew?usp=sharing


7) Unplug the ATX power supply and remove the jumper between pins 5 and 7. Your board will be back to normal once powercycled.


Much appreciated! If anyone is willing to do this and needs some help, happy to do a videocall.


thanks,

cirthix

Hi, first of all thanks to @agentx007 and @Lost_N_BIOS for their BIOS mod. That is what I was looking for without upgrading all my PC. I really like this motherboard.

I am trying to bifurcate the PCIE slots for using an ASUS HYPER M.2 x16 that could use 4 NMVe drives. In my current configuration I am using 2 Samsung EVO NVMe drives and I had to connect the NMVe drives in slots 1 and 3 of the HYPER M.2 card and this card is connected in PCIE slot PCIE_X16/X8_3 (based on instruction manual, which is the 3rd PCIE counting from the nearest to the CPU). In this case it seems that PCIE_X16/X8_3 appears in the bifuracation menu of the BIOS as "IOU2 - PCIe Port". I have set up as x4x4x4x4 and I don´t know why connecting the drives to the HYPER M.2 slots 1 and 2 does not recognize any drives, but connecting to slots 1 and 3 detects both. I would like in the future to use the 4 NVMe slots and the slots 2 and 4 should be working with bifurcation x4x4x4x4 in I am not wrong.
On the other hand, from bifuraction BIOS menu it shows "IOU1 PCIe Port" as a PCIE X8 slot and "IOU2 PCIe Port and IOU3 PCIe Port" as the two PCIE X16 slots. So is there a 1 port missing for configuring? or the remaing X8 slot is not able to be bifurcated?
To listing the ports as defined in the motherboard and showed in BIOS/Advanced/System Agent Configuration/IOH Configuration:

PCIE_X16_1 --> IOU3 PCIe Port (x8x8 , x8x4x4, x4x4x8, x4x4x4x4)
PCIE_X8_2 --> IOU1 PCIe Port (x4x4) ??? / Fixed to X8
PCIE_X16/X8_3 --> IOU2 PCIe Port (x8x8 , x8x4x4, x4x4x8, x4x4x4x4) in case X16 / (x4x4) in case X8 when all PCIE slots are used
PCIE_X8_4 --> IOU1 PCIe Port (x4x4) ??? / Fixed to X8

Which one wil be correct for IOU1 PCIe Port?

Will be using the HYPER M.2 with the NVMe drives, in slots 1 and 2, works inserted in PCIE_X16_1 bifurcated to x4x4x4x4 instead of the GPU card? (Just for allowing to use the 2 remaining NVMe ports of the HYPER M.2)

My final ideal setup for PCIE slots will be:
- x1 ASUS HYPER M.2 x16 with 4 NVMe drives (ideally if works in PCIE_x16_1?)
- x2 PCIE x4 SSD drives with biffurcation in BIOS (when clarified whith PCIE_X8 slot is) and with bifurcation riser cables and slots (ideally using PCIE_X8_2). The SSD drives are ASUS RAIDR
- x1 Full HD HDMI Avermedia capture card (ideally using PCIEX1_1 2.0)
- x2 ASUS GTX TITAN BLACK with SLI running at X8. (ideally, for using the rest of the setup, using the PCIE_X16/X8_3 and PCIE_X8_4 that both will be at X8)

Thanks in advance for your help and your advices.