Hello

Im trieing to get my 960 EVO to running

Having an Asus Maximus Gene V and using a Delock NVMe Converter and patched my bios regarding your Tutorial.

Im able to boot and install Windows with an GPT usb stick and it seems to install it on the Drive (which is fine so far!), then it reboots the system.

But after the reboot the issue is that "Windows Bootmanager" is not showing up in the List of Bootable Options.

I tried several kombinations with CRM / Fastboot / Uefi especially:

- CRM Disabled
- Fastboot disabled
- Uefi only
- Sata Disabled
- only one drive (the nvme) attached
- Delete all partions (within the installer and let windows create it itself)
- deleting the keys..

nothing seems to help :(..

Anyone maybe (@Fernando) has an idear why it seems the bootmanager is not installed on the device?

Im currently not even sure where i should go on with searching.. is it hardware? is it bios? is it windows? =(

@scratchy2

You should boot into a Uefi shell. Most systems will boot into a shell if you have a fat32 formatted USB disk with either shellx64.efi on the root or placed in an Efi/boot folder naming file bootx64.efi. From there in the shell type 'Drivers' and verify that the nvme driver has loaded. If so verify that Windows is installed on your nvme drive using the shell to check that the boot files exist on the system partition. If they do you need to manually create the boot entry using bcfg. Sorry it's messy at this point but it is what it is..

Zitat von davidm71 im Beitrag #2136

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You should boot into a Uefi shell.

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #2138

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What do you mean with "GPT USB stick"? The USB stick itself has to be FAT32 formatted.
If you use the tool Rufus, the related GUI should look like this:

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #2138

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Very important: When you want to get the OS installed in UEFI mode, you have to choose the Boot Manager entry "[UEFI] name of the USB stick".
How many partitions did the Win10 Setup create onto the target Disk Drive (your NVMe SSD)?
Which reboot do you mean (there are several reboots during the OS installation until it is completed) and where did you miss the entry "Windows Bootmanager"?

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The ASUS Flashback method does work with "classical" small size USB 2.0 key only with additional restrictions:
MBR schema only
No multiple partitions
FAT32 only

All other parameters choice such as (GPT, size larger > 4GB, USB 3.x, etc..) are source of problems (by experience).

Hi Fernando,

Interesting, and a little worrying for me as I want to use the AHCI controller for my data drive after converting to NVMe boot....
Thanks for your efforts, as always.

@winyl - can you please elaborate again on what's necessary and what not inorder to get NVME working ?
I wish to update my G751JT with NVME... Although T and Y models are similar, they got different bios - so I need to be sure what to do.

1. Should we wipe Mtftp6D inorder to insert NVME module ?
OR you mean that the bios is compatible with NVME out of the box ?

I understood that it's NOT a good idea to use UBU to update IRST module... nontheless, I know from other users that's OK to update just the CPU microcode using UBU.

2. what about samsung's magician SW/driver issues ?
what about read speed issue ? was it solved ?

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted voluminous post removed (to save space)

Hi Fernando and other forummembers,

first of all i wanna thank you so much for you time and work to put this tutorial together!

And i can say i have managed to install and boot Windows 10 on my brandnew evo 960 in an Delock m2 adapter - with your tutorial.
I followed your tutorial and everything works ! Only Problem i cant flash the bios !
If the name is not exactly the same(E7751IMS) and the .1B0 suffix it were not even found on the usb stick.
The only method is to use the Boot Bios from usb function. There it will find any suffix like .bin or .rom and i can select to boot it.
When iam booting this BIOS , the sdd is recognized as PATA and i can boot from it !

Dont get it why i can boot it but not flash it.
When iam trying to flash just freeze and nothing happens , only tried it one time and were feared that i had bricked my bios chip !

My Board is an MSI Z77-GD55 ! You ever heard from such an Problem?
Now i simply switched to an old cheap usb stick and running like that for the moment. It simply boots up the 960 when iam not selecting anything other by F11.
But the Bootsequence is very long because of bios from usb so its not a good solution

Thanks

hi guys,

I'm new here, hope you can help me and thanks for the guide...
I have a HP Z420, BIOS ver 3.91 Rev A. I've followed the instructions without success.
When I flash the BIOS with original file from HP website, it works fine. With the mod BIOS, it jumps straight to "update complete" without doing anything.

HP BIOS website is : https://support.hp.com/au-en/drivers/sel...mId/wk-177812-1

Could someone please help, thank you.