I just wanted to give a BIG BIG THANK YOU to you Fernando for this amazing post and detailed instructions! I followed everything and was able to successfully boot using a Rampage IV Gene motherboard and a Samsung 960 EVO installed on a PCI Express adapter card! So happy now that I can use a faster NVME with an older system. :) Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

Hello everyone.

I'm new here and from what I gathered over the web this is the best place to ask.

I've got a MSI Big Bang Xpower II X79 board and as you know it has 7 PCI-E and so I bought 2 Samsung 960 Evo and 2 PCI-E X4 adapters. Connected them to the board and all is fine if you wanna use them as storage but tried last night to make a Storage Pool in WIN 10 (to Raid 0 them) and besides the fact it gave me an error the speed coming from the pool was in the area of 300-400MB/S read so something is wrong.

I flashed an v2.82 BIOS from the MSI forum and ofc I added the NVME module and nothing basicly happenned. In my BIOS I see them as PATA but cannot select them as boot drives + I don't know how to RAID 0 them and install windows 10 on them. If you could be so kind into helping me as I never done this before.

If you could also help me with a modded BIOS and a flash method that would bypass the security check I would be much appreciative.

Thank you for your answer and have a nice day !

Thank you for you quick answer.
Well at least it should be much faster than my S-ATA 850 Evo. Will try tonight too see if I can get it done.

So I should just boot the USB stick with Win10 and when it comes to drive selection where to install it I should be able to see it there right ?
Should I disconnect the other drives ? I have 3 HDD's and 2 SSD's on S-ATA.

Thank you.

I forgot to ask. And maybe this was answered but here goes:

1. Should I reinable any setting in my Bios now that I have a successful install and boot?
2. Is it safe to leave Secure Boot off?

Hi i am new here

I have a z820 with latest motherboard revision and latest bios : CPUs Dual E5-2690 v2 .
I am wondering if a working bios mod is available for me to enable full NvME support for a 960 pro on my system.
I also use a 9361-8i with dual port SAS hdds which i thought i would mention incase for compatibility and i am wondering if someone can provide a link to the correct bios mod so i can spend a couple of weeks looking into the procedure properly.

Thanks

Awesome news you rock !

I am back well i had a quick read over this morning and decided to follow each step. ( i would have liked to double check from the photos in the tutorial but they are not readable whether i click the link or save pic as ) anyway i was confident that what i was being told to do i was doing and then i went back to the start and rechecked.

Yesterday before i came here i updated the z820 BIO to v3.91 and it took about 5 minutes.
Today before i flashed the mod BIOS i made sure of three things:
1) I saved the mod from UEFITool to exactly the same name as th HP BIOS "J63_0391.BIN"
2) It was at the root of the USB Fat 32 stick along with the other files required by HP that were used yesterday to go to v3.91 !
3) I double checked my mod twice.

I hit flash and it was very fast like 3-5 sec max ! It said flash ROM successful.

I have a 950 Pro currently installed with Win UEFI and it was already booting in "Windows Boot Manager under UEFI" prior to this flash.

Before i order a 960 pro how to i double check that this flash mod worked as it should ?????

Hi

I cant see anything in the bios relating to NvME. I was able to enable secure boot + fast boot + f5 disable Legacy Boot drives which i believe i could not do prior to this flash and WIN boots perfectly.
If theres a way i can confirm that my flash is working so i can then order a 960 pro please advise.

Oh and Thank you for all the help so far and the tutorial.

This is absolutely awesome. It was so easy to do !

I must admit I was sweating just before I hit the flash button (:

Can I also say that because I updated the Bios yesterday to v3.91 today when I added the NvME DXE into the same bios it only needed to flash that in so it was real quick ! Which is handy to know and probably a bit of a “safer” way knowing it well for me it iis !

Well time to order the 960 and a huge huge massive thank you to everyone involved in making this available and easy.

Will post a update when the 960 arrives for all you zX20 owners.

Thanks Fernando