@powrslave:
Really, Window 7 and NVMe?

You can still upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free here:
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessib...indows10upgrade

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted text (incl. images) replaced by direct addressing to the related author (to save space)

Hi,
i've the i7 3820 installed on the ASUS P9X79 Pro. I've seen that the new Samsung 960 series are very fast, and i decide to buy the ASUS Adapter Hyper M.2 x4 PCI and the SSD 960 EVO.
How can i config the mainboard to boot the OS ?
Now i can try to install the adpter and the SSD, boot into the Operating System, and format the SSD 960 EVO with GPT table and NTFS format. And then, boot the USB Windows 10 UEFI installation to install the Windows operaing system into the SSD 960 EVO. is it possible proceed how i've described before, or i must mod the BIOS ?

Zitat von FirstEver im Beitrag #1697

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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

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Here is an updated version of the "NvmExpressDxe-64.efi / NvmExpressDxe-64.ffs" driver with the correct GUID as listed by edk2: NvmExpressDxe.inf

- Via Clover
-- Extract the "Clover_*.pkg" with 7zip, WinRar, etc. and go into "NvmExpressDxe-64.pkg" and yeah.. well.. FckU Apple ^^
--- Only way i found to extract the "Payload" file was via "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (who the heck came up with that name?^^): "gunzip -c Payload | cpio -i"
---- This will give us a file named "NvmExpressDxe-64.efi"
-- Download edk2-BaseTools-win32: GenFfs.exe, GenSec.exe
-- Now we are going to build our FFS file (NvmExpressDxe-64.ffs):
--- GenSec -o pe32.sec NvmExpressDxe-64.efi -s EFI_SECTION_PE32
--- GenSec -o ui.sec -s EFI_SECTION_USER_INTERFACE -n "NvmExpressDxe"
--- GenSec -o version.sec -s EFI_SECTION_VERSION -n "1.0"
--- GenFfs -g "5BE3BDF4-53CF-46a3-A6A9-73C34A6E5EE3" -o NvmExpressDxe-64.ffs -i pe32.sec -i ui.sec -i version.sec -t EFI_FV_FILETYPE_DRIVER
-- Done :)

- Build from source (Linux/Windows)
-- Instructions for Linux:
--- Using EDK II with Native GCC
--- Common instructions for Linux
--- Additional: EDK2 @ Ubuntu Wiki
-- Instructions for Windows:
--- Windows systems
-- Proceed as mentioned above

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I hope that everything is correct. Can't test the module now but it should work. Maybe someone wants to be the guinea pig? ;>

My Z87 - Pro does not have PCI 3.0 X4 slot
I am running one gtx970 card
My understanding is this is pointless on this mb yes?

Zitat von powrslave im Beitrag #1817

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This is MB slots

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Wow... so much to go through.

I tried this little experiment last October without much success. I came down to having needing to remove some files to get the size under the max allotted. At the time I didn't know what file I could lose so I picked on. Long story short, it didn't work. I have seen that there has been some new activity with these posts and more successes.

So a simply question, I have an Asus G751JT Laptop. It takes an AHCI M.2 just fine, but I have an extra NVMe one I would like to use. Has anyone does a BIOS mod for this particular laptop? Asus at one time offered folks the chance to send my laptop in and get a new motherboard that accepts SLI but I missed out on that. Turns out that MB update also fixed the NVMe issue so I'm doubly pissed.

Anyway if anyone has successfully modded a BIOS for this motherboard, I would be grateful if you could upload it for me. I still have all the tools from the last attempt, but I'm a little skittish as it didn't work before.

Thanks,

BT

i've windows system, but i've not understand how can i modify the bios.
This procedure is safe, or i could broke the mainboard ?

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1839

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Question: Do you know the date of the body's code compilation by the Clover/EDK2 Team?

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Zitat von powrslave im Beitrag #1836

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My Z87 - Pro does not have PCI 3.0 X4 slot
I am running one gtx970 card
My understanding is this is pointless on this mb yes?

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Thanks Fernando. I will get to that on Sunday/Monday. I'm literally heading out the door right now for some vacation time! :)

i think that as soon as possible i prefer to send you the lastest bios of my mainboard, so you could modify the BIOS for me ?

@e.v.o:
Thanks for detailing the proper way to mod efi files into ffs. Was just looking through the EDK2 2015 nvmexpress.c source code and found this:
"Device->Media.WriteCaching = FALSE; ". Wonder if its worth turning that value onto TRUE, recompile and see what happens?

I am tempted to try.

EDIT by Fernando: Fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing to the author (to save space)

Hey Fernando.

This is the non-modded BIOS from laptop. I started following the instructions again and opened up this Bios file in the UEFItool and I couldn't even find the region. To start all this. This is the latest BIOS for this lap top. I must be missing something. I remember last time i tried this was several months ago and I kept getting the 'file exceeds error" so I tried the second FFS file and it never worked.

Anyway this is the unmodded file, if you can look at it and let me know what I'm missing it would be appreciated.

EDIT * - So when I go into my BIOS I'm seeing UEFI instead of Intel Image and I'm not seeing anything that says BIOS region. I did the search for DXE and once again what I'm seeing on the screen is NOTHING like I'm expecting. I honestly remembering it was much easier the first time and I have got to be missing something simple. I flashed back to the previous BIOS so when I do get this working it will be for the latest version and I won't get the "old build" error. I"m really not sure what i'm missing at this point.

The other thing I noticed is the extension of the file is .211. I'm used to Asus having a .CAP file extension and using the EZ flash port, but this is a laptop and doesn't have that. option so I have to go through the EZ flash utility in BIOS. So this isn't a uefi BIOS it is the Aptio one from Megatrends so this may not even work. I would have sworn it was a UEFI BIOS... I know my USB has the GPT format and have used it to install the UEFI version on my x99. I just find it weird that somehow 6 months ago i was finding and editing all this stuff in that BIOS version .211.

It also looks like someone else tried it with the Asus g751jt and couldn't get it to work here: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS (39) back in Feb 2016. I'm not sure if anything has changed since then.