I use it for drafting work with autocad in 2D only. I think it is still sufficient. ;)

Hi, Oddbjorn, Can I ask you to share you bios file with me please? I own a p8z77-v too and it would be easier for me to just flash your modified bios, thank you very much.

Also, it is a wonderful thread, thank you for maintaining it for all those years, it's amazing! <3

Hello Everyone! First post, and I'd like to thank everyone for the great information in here! I've learned a bunch about UEFI, legacy bios, NVME, and modding them. Unfortunately not enough. Maybe someone is able to point out what I am doing incorrectly, because my new NVMe drive (Samsung 960 EVO 1TB) is unrecognizable as a bootable drive.

I am using an ASUS ROG G751JY-DH72 laptop that came OEM with a 128gb SM951 drive, and a platter drive. I removed the SM951 for a 850 EVO, which I am replacing with a 960 EVO NVMe. The ASUS ROG forums have a guide > here < that explains how to get an NMVe drive working for this laptop model. The guide draws heavily from the original post in this guide and also referenced Win-Raid forums (which is how I found you all!). I followed the guide exactly, backed up the original BIOS, injected the nvme_4 DXE (from here) appropriately, saved the modified BIOS, and uses AFUWINGUI to flash the laptop. When booting from a Win10 install USB, the win10 install would not format, partition, or install onto the NVMe drive, stating it could not boot from it. When I investigated the BIOS settings, my drives llisted were the USB drive, the 850 EVO, and "PATA SS:" which is apparently how the 960 EVO identifies. One of Fernando's posts says if my bios report an NMVE this way, i do not have UEFI bios and may need to use the clover method. Is that accurate?

I am confused because the ROG thread has people with the same laptop model and same drive, no problem... I definitely do not have UEFI bios and they are definitely legacy on my laptop. Is it possible I "lost" them somehow and can regain UEFI bios and make this simple? WOuld I need to use the clover method? I am unsure of the best way to move forward.. but what I absolutely do not want to do is send the NVMe drive back to Amazon.

Thanks for the guide. It worked great. I just modded the bios for a MSI 970A‑G43 motherboard based on the A.6 bios taken from the MSI website. In case you have this motherboard and are looking to do this mod, you can use the attached file.

I am using an Inland Professional 512GB 3D NAND M.2 NVMe drive in a Vantec M.2 NVMe SSD PCIe x4 Adapter in a MSI 970A‑G43 motherboard and can boot windows 10 directly.

@Fernando Thank you for the welcome, this forum is quite a knowledge base! Much to learn still. My BIOS has secure boot disabled by default, but I have not seen an option for Fast Boot to be enabled or disabled. I briefly used a free trial of EasyUEFI > here < to look at my UEFI/EFI boot record when I booted into the 850 EVO drive. It seems the software would not install as my win10 image on that drive was no a UEFI based windows.

I'll cycle through my BIOS soon and take pictures of each screen and link them here in this post, perhaps you will see a setting I missed.

@Fernando You are a genius sir! Vielen Dank!

My USB install drive with Rufus was MBR OR GPT, not GPT for UEFi only. It is installing beautifully now, thank you again so very much!!

I thought I'd replied here, but guess not.

I did get the drive recognized and running-- so thank you to Dieter (alias Fernando)!

check please my modified bios, bios download from the off site msi, did everything according to the instructions. link to file http://mega.dp.ua/file?source=18082821292123950085

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #3401

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As I understand it is necessary to try to modify?

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