Unfortunately it did not work. Nothing new appeared in the BIOS no matter what options I enabled and disabled.
However, the PCI-E adapter I have has LEDs which are supposed to show activity but they are all turned off.
Should I try to implement the small driver into the BIOS instead, or will it make no difference? Any other steps along the way that I might have missed/failed at?
Is it possible that the M.2 is not getting power from the PCI-E port? If so, could there be a workaround without involving a USB drive?
I know it is a broad question but you seem to know this quite well :)

Thanks Fernando,

One more question. Where I can find the "pure" source BIOS?? I must make secure copy of BIOS before I will start.

Zitat von kaczkin im Beitrag #4005

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Thanks Fernando,

One more question. Where I can find the "pure" source BIOS?? I must make secure copy of BIOS before I will start.

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4004

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@ZaInT:
Please attach your modded BIOS as *.ZIP or *.RAR archive and add a link to the original BIOS. Then I will do a look into both of them.
The insertion of the "small" NVMe module only makes sense, if you have gotten the message, that there is not enough space within the DXE Volume of the BIOS.

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Thanks ZaInT,

One more thing. If in the instruction is written that USB 2.0 Flash Drive should be use will be a problem if I use 3.0 Flash Drive??
And second question. My motherboard support program can export the BIOS file but as a *.din or *.rom file. Can I open and modify such files by using UEFITool??

Hopefuly last thing.

How can I be sure (how can I check) that the target DXE Volume contains a module named "CSMCORE"??
I know I have a DUAL BIOS and I don't want to make a mistake.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4009

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@ZaInT:
According to what I have seen the insertion of the NVMe module has been done perfectly.
Good luck for the flashing!

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Just getting into this and there seems to be a lot of information to read over. I noticed on the first post this information.

"It is no problem to get a PCIe or M.2 connected NVMe SSD working with any Intel Chipset system from 6-Series up without modifying the mainboard BIOS, if
a) the NVMe SSD will be used for the storage of data (as drive D:, E: etc.) and
b) an appropriate NVMe driver is present within the Operating System (either natively or loaded/integrated)"

I ordered and got my package today and was hoping to get it working. I got an M.2 PCIe Adapter with a Samsung 970 NVME drive and I am trying to get my system to see the drive plugged into either the PCIe x8 or x4 slot but I can't get it to show up in disk management.
I am not trying to get this drive to use as a boot drive. I just want to use it for a steam library. I am on a Gigabyte Z87MX-D3H mobo and downloaded the v12 driver from this link on this forum

@ZaInT
There is no mention of you actually installing the M.2 SSD in your posts (I assume you did). After a successful BIOS mod, without the SSD installed there will be no evidence in the BIOS of any changes. With the SSD installed the only evidence in the BIOS (before installing the OS) will be "PATA" or PATA SS" in the "Boot" section of the BIOS (see "This is what you should do:", "3. Flashing of the modded BIOS:", "Success verification:" in Fernando's guide).

I just installed a secure erased 960 EVO, and in Windows 7 it shows up in Device Manager under disk drives (NVMe Samsung SSD 960 SCSI Disk Device), and under storage controllers (Samsung NVMe controller). I already had the Samsung NVMe driver installed, so I don't know if that had an effect on Device Manager or not.
When I opened Disk Management I immediately got a popup wanting to initialize the drive. I cancelled, and the drive shows up only in the lower section as an "Unknown Disk", "Not Initialized", with "Unallocated" space.

If you don't get any evidence that the drive is installed, I would check your BIOS settings to make sure your PCIe slot is active and set for Gen3. Your lowest X16 slot is only gen2, so you need to use one of the two upper x16 slots to get the full speed of your NVMe SSD. Trying a different slot may work.

If you have Windows 7 you may need to install the Samsung NVMe driver first, but I doubt that would have an effect on detection in Disk Management.

@Paulos7 If you are referring to my case, I know the extra slots are working as I can plug in my USB 3.0 PCIe card and it shows up fine. I only have a 16, 8, 4 and a 1. I can't use the 16 as my RTX 2070 is plugged in that slot.
I am on the latest version of Windows 10 x64. I figured it was going to as easy as going into disk management and initializing it but that isn't the case. If all else fails, I am just going to get a SSD drive case adapter/m.2 and just use the drive that way until I do an upgrade. I hadn't planned on upgrading for a bit, other than the NVME, I don't have any issues with the computer as is.