Zitat von David359 im Beitrag #1589

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I think you have something here. I totally forgot to mention that in my experimenting with the X58 board I moved the video card to the second x16 slot and the NVMe is in the first x16 slot. My thought at the time was to maximize NVMe performance. I have the same slot setup that you do with some additional X8 and X4 slots (and a couple PCI slots) that are not really usable due to physical obstruction. I think your logic is right on target and worth another experiment.

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Zitat von davidm71 im Beitrag #1591

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Sorry to report what ever slot it was in did not make a difference. Also the legacy rom posted at boot that its running at pci-e 1x4 speed even though the motherboard supposedly has pci-e 2.0 capable slots and gpu-z reports the primary gpu running at 2.0 speeds. According to that review I posted a link to above unless the motherboard can manually set its pci-e speed the ssd will set a lower speed than it should. This is disappointing.

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Zitat von David359 im Beitrag #1592

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Sorry to hear that. When your ADATA device arrives I will be curious to know if your PCIe bus operates at rev 2x4. The ADATA device is PCIe 3 which steps down to PCIe 2 on the X58 board. I notice the Plextor has a PCIe 2 controller. I wonder what is making it step down to PCIe 1. You would think it should work at PCie 2.

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Hi, Dieter,

I succesfully modded my motherboard's BIOS with the tools you provided by adding the required NVMe modules and flashing it back with USB BIOS Flashback.
Then I installed the M.2 adapter with the new NVMe SSD attached to it into the third PCIe slot.
Windows 7 successfully recognized and initialized the drive. Read speed is 2949 MB/s (rated 3200 MB/s), so I am quite satisfied with it.
The BIOS, however, doesn't explicitly detect the drive nor does it offer the option to boot from it. The only trace of NVMe support I could find is being able to
select which driver to load first (Legacy OpROM or UEFI) in the "Boot From PCI Expansion Slots" options in the CSM.
I should note that Windows 7 is currently installed in UEFI mode on a separate (old) SSD. I suppose this means it is using GPT. Please advise on how
to copy this existing installation to the new drive and boot off of it.

System specifications:
ASUS P8Z77-V Pro
Intel Core i7-3770
Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 8GB
Kingspec C3000-60 (old drive)
2x1TB HDD in RAID-0
Samsung SM961 NVMe SSD with ASUS Hyper M.2 x4 MINI adapter (new drive)
Win7x64 with all updates

Thank you and Best Regards

Zitat von David359 im Beitrag #1589

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I think you have something here. I totally forgot to mention that in my experimenting with the X58 board I moved the video card to the second x16 slot and the NVMe is in the first x16 slot. My thought at the time was to maximize NVMe performance. I have the same slot setup that you do with some additional X8 and X4 slots (and a couple PCI slots) that are not really usable due to physical obstruction. I think your logic is right on target and worth another experiment.

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Hi everybody!
I have Sony Vaio Pro 13.
I want to Bios Modding for NVMe support. But, I can't.
It gives the following error.
"Invalid UEFI Volume"

Where am i making mistakes?

After you get my bios backup. I'm doing them, step by step.

Step-1


Step-2


Step-3


Step-4


Final :(



I'll be glad, if you help me.

@Fernando

Thanks. But Someone did it.
[Sony VAIO] BIOS modding/hacking/unlocking - Some Questions (4)

How can it be done? Could there be another solution?

Hello,
I registered only to thanks Fernando for great guide and solutions in whole topic.
My mainboard is quite exotic (Sapphire Z77 Pure Platinum) so I was afraid of running nvme on this board could be very hard or even impassible. That was nonsense. I bought pci-e -> m.2 Adapter Card for $4 from our friends in china.
Quick uefi edit (I had to delete IntelIvbGopDriv because there was not enough space), quick flash (Sapphire have dual bios so there was no fear), shut down, installation adapter with Samsung SM961, plug-in stick with Windows 10 and power on.
Everything start smoothly, Windows install flawlessly and right after that i had system.

CPU was bought only for test for something like $7. It's SandyBridge G620 so because of pci-e 2.0 transfers are not so great.


Do you think it's everything ok with those transfers on pci-e 2.0? It's half as this SM961 run on C216 with native m.2 port (Dell Precision T3620).

Best regards,
Xor

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1595

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@poolside:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your interim report!

Zitat von poolside im Beitrag #1594

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Windows 7 successfully recognized and initialized the drive. Read speed is 2949 MB/s (rated 3200 MB/s), so I am quite satisfied with it.
The BIOS, however, doesn't explicitly detect the drive nor does it offer the option to boot from it.

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If you have read the start post of this thread, you know, that the BIOS will not show the NVMe SSD as (bootable) storage Disk Drive, but nevertheless it is able to detect and to manage the NVMe SSD (provided, that the needed NVMe BIOS module has been correctly inserted.

Zitat

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I should note that Windows 7 is currently installed in UEFI mode on a separate (old) SSD. I suppose this means it is using GPT.

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You can easily verify it yourself by running the Disk Management. The SSD, which is currently used as system drive, should contain a separate EFI System Partition.

Zitat

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Please advise on how to copy this existing installation to the new drive and boot off of it.

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You will need a good Cloning Software and to clone all existing partitions of your currently used system drive onto the NVMe SSD.
After having done that, you have to remove/unplug the SSD, which is currently used as system drive, and then to restart your machine.
Maybe you will have to load the latest Samsung NVMe driver to get the Samsung SM961 detected by the OS.

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You were right about everything.

I took the two precautions that you gave:
* I looked for and successfully installed the official Samsung NVMe driver in my system.
* I bought and installed quality migration software for GPT/UEFI installations: Paragon's Migrate OS to SSD 5.0. Worked flawlessly!

The BIOS successfully booted off of the drive!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you.

Best Regards

You guys got to check out this benchmark I just ran comparing the performance of the OpenFabrics NVME driver to the MS standard Nvme driver!

Win 10 Standard NVMe vs Open Fabrics NVM OFA Reference Drivers