Thanks Fernando for your Site!

So i get run 960EVO on X79 Sabertooth on Delock converter.
~2900/~1700 read/write

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Danke Fernando für deine Seite!

Hab dadurch Samsung 960EVO auf X79 Sabertooth und DeLockadapter am laufen!
~2900/~1700 lesen/schreiben

I'm using a Samsung SSD 960 EVO (w/ Asus Hyper M.2 X4 PCI-E Mini Adapter) on Asus P9X79 Pro, but...
Do you thing it will be possible to use two of them and BOOT in RAID 0 (like on Asus TUF Z270 Mark 1)?

2x Samsung SSD 960 EVO in RAID 0 mode (bootable) on Z270 motherboard:


2x Samsung SSD 960 EVO in RAID 0 mode (non-bootable) on X99 motherboard (Asus X99-PRO /w one Asus Hyper M.2 X4 PCI-E Mini Adapter):


PCI-E Slots on my motherboard:
3 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (dual x16 or x16/x8/x8)
1 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x8 mode)
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1

I will be getting my Samsung 960 Pro 1TB + Asus Hyper m.2 X4 today. I suppose I'm out of luck in terms of making this bootable on my Asus P8C WS, Intel C216 chipset motherboard? As it doesn't feature any BIOS Flashback as far as I can see? I had hoped the 960 Pro had kept the Legacy BIOS Boot option from the 950 Pro but it doesn't seem like it?

I remember I tried to follow that guide on my P8B-E/4L motherboards some time back and it didn't work. But I will give it a go and see if I'm able to get it to work with the P8C WS. Would prefer to be able to utilise the 960 Pro 1TB as a boot drive.

I'm not that good with modding BIOS, is anyone able to add the NVMe capabilities and updated Intel Rapid SATA/AHCI and Intel LAN ROM's into the latest P8C WS BIOS? Link to latest BIOS: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock...S-ASUS-3601.zip

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that I followed your instructions to modify a version 2.90 Bios for a Asrock Z77 Extreme4 machine... This is something I have never tried before, so I'm sure you can imagine that I was a bit apprehensive..

Although there was a huge learning curve, the process was completed, and I now have a functional OCZ RD400 PCIE Drive as a boot device through Windows Boot Manager...
I seem to be experiencing none of the issues mentioned by others... I have installed both Win 7 Pro and Win 10 Pro on this drive without issues, but had to include driver files on the installation flash drive for Win 7 Pro...
Asrock has a 2.90M Beta Bios for NVMe use, but it provided nothing of any benefit that I could tell, but it may be due to a needed learning curve...

Thanks for providing this info !!!

Thanks Fernando!

Still before the whole NVMe SSD thing. I started thinking about the dual boot. Currently, I have a Win8.1 on SSD and Ubuntu & Win10 on the HDD.

I want Ubuntu 16.04 & Win10 on the new NVMe SSD and an another Win10 on the HDD for backup/testing. So the question is, if last time selected HDD as a primary boot device, how can switch back to the NVMe SSD? I know there is an option in bootloaders for selecting default drive, but are there any other method? Removing every bootable drive except the SSD?

As you mentioned in first post:
The "BOOT" section of the UEFI BIOS and the shortcut to the "Bootable Devices" will not show the NVMe SSD, although it may be bootable!

Hello Fernando!
First of all, I want to congratulate you for this amazing forum, and all your effort to help everyone.

I have a Rampage IV Black Edition with Windows 8.1 on a 840 Pro. I thought I could improve my SSD so I bought the allegedly fastest SSD on earth, the 960 Pro with de Asus Hyper M.2 Mini adapter.
Soon I realized the this SSD won't boot on my motherboard.
So I start digging and found this forum, of course.
I've tried to modify and flash my BIOS but my attempts have been frustrated.
I tried do modify my BIOS with the procedure on the first page of this thread, using your NvmExpressDxE_2 with both methods, UEFItool and MMtool.
Also tried to modify by adding the Nvme, NvmeInt13 and NvmeSmm also using both methods.

Results were:

- With NvmExpressDxE_2, appeared a new boot devide on boot options. It was called "PATA: SS" or something
- With Nvme, NvmeInt13 and NvmeSmm, nothing append.

My problema is that the computer still won't boot if I select "PATA: SS" as the boot device.
Tried do clone my 940 to 960 and tried to boot with 960. "Boot device invalid"
Tried to install Windows 10 on 960. When I get to that part where we have to select the disk to install, 960 is there (940 is not because I unplugged the wire), but Windows says that cannot install on 960 because the computer my not be able to boot from that device.

I tried to modify some options on BIOS like deactivate ASmedia, activate and deactivate CSM, etc and the result is always the same. (BTW, when I deactivate CSM, all drives are no longer detected)

What am I doing wrong?

Hello everyone:

I found this forum and I really liked it.
I have an asus GL752VW, and I was surprised that they have not updated the bios for 8 months. V214.
I want to install a ssd 960 Evo disk, and my laptop does not detect it and as I read in the forum, I must install SAMSUNG_M2_DXE.ffs.
I added this mediate uefitool 0.21.5 and I left it like this.
It is right?



Thanks