I didn't realise that. It was salvaged from my old laptop so I've had it a while. So both Crucial and Hynix SSDs use SATA interfaces so wouldn't work anyway :) OK. I'm not too fussed about performance, so I'll see if there's some other way of making one of these bootable rather than buying a new SSD.

Works on motherboard GA-F2A85X-UP4 (AMD version) !!!! The first time in the BIOS the SSD was defined as the Samsund 960 EVO, now referred to as PATA SS. Thanks for the instruction (Guide) !!!

I ask you to excuse me, maybe this question was crushed earlier. What is the difference, in technical terms between NvmExpressDxE_2 and NvmExpressDxE_3? Thank you!

Thanks for a very well written guide, whilst I'm quite certain that I've done all the steps correctly I'd still like to verify that there's no issues with my modified BIOS file. If someone could take a look at it and verify that I've done it correctly I'd very much appreciate it.

http://www83.zippyshare.com/v/vXJ2JRTT/file.html

Thanks! I'll report back with my success tomorrow then.

Edit: Flashed my bios and got my OS installed, everything seems to be working perfectly.
Thanks for all the effort in getting this guide completed!

Hello,

I'm also with HP Z620 and 960 Evo here, trying to get it to work.
I have tried the BIOS mod and here are the results (using the HP dosflash):
Writing from 3.90 to 3.91mod = System ROM image is invalid
Writing from 3.90 to 3.91 = Slow overwrite
Writing from 3.91 to 3.91mod = At some point I got fast overwrite and OK, but no nvme (maybe was not modded, can't know anymore). The next mods I tried gave all the invalid error

Here be the original and my modded ROMs

I'd be glad to help work this out as I see there are others with the same device and drive setup here.
I'm using clover right now, but the 960revo seems to have lower performance, write maxed at 1.6GB/s and read 3GB/s and many times lower 4K seq performance than others.

Thanks,

I looked into the suggested thread and this is beyond my understanding of modding. I have no info on was the error caused by security bits as the message was about invalid ROM.

That is a good idea, I send those users a PM.

Hi Fernando, thanks for all your help!
I've got a Samsung NP500R5L notebook and a 960 Evo SSD, and as my computer does not recognize the SSD, I'll try to follow your guide.
However, I don't have the "souce BIOS" file that is required for UEFITool and I can't find it anywhere. Samsung's website has nothing but manuals, and I don't know if I can find this file in any folder. How should I proceed?

Thanks again and happy new year!

@daggerpwna
From what I can tell, your laptop does not support NVMe. Samsung shows that the storage interface is M.2 SATA3. If you managed to mod the BIOS for NVMe support you still would not get anything more than SATA3 speeds from the 960 EVO. I didn't thoroughly search the net for information, so you may want to check for yourself before you spend anymore time trying to mod the BIOS.

Hi I just wanted to report that I got the NVMEv3 module working on my ASUS P8Z77-V LK.

That's fine, thanks for the answers. I also think that's the case, however I thought that when people said that virtually most/any chipsets and BIOS can support NVMe, I interpreted that any motherboards also would. My mistake, will try to replace the SSD then. Thanks! :)