Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4557

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@davidm71:
Which "particular NVMe mod" do you mean?
According to the feedback I got, nearly all users, who strictly followed my guide (no matter which one of the offered NVMe modules they had inserted), succeeded and were able to boot off their NVMe SSD.

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@Fernando:
Finally got my Asus Z87 Pro booting Win7 off a PCIe x4 NVMe drive. After a few failed and nerve-wracking "by hand" attempts at porting my system drive, in the end I used a payware partition tool, MiniTool Partition Wizard, to copy my win7 MBR SATA SSD to my NVMe SSD as GPT, which booted straight-away without incident. I've found that to boot Win7 as UEFI, one MUST have CSM enabled. Works great! The boot time has been cut in over half, though not the crazy fast times Win10 gets. Eventually I'll go Win10 dual boot, and move Win7 back to a SATA SSD. Thanks for the brilliant BOIS patch and advice, paypal donation has been made...thanks and enjoy!

BTW, Thanks Fernando for your dedication to this cause. I hope you can step away relaxed and in style. Best Wishes!

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing (to save space)

Silly situation (question). I have an Aurora R4 motherboard (x79) with BIOS revision A11. The instruction is clear and allowed me to have a modded BIOS. I am booting off a single SATA SSD (Samsung 840 Evo 1tb).

My Windows 10 is setup to boot in Secure Boot.

Question is:
- If i apply the modded BIOS, can i still boot fine with my current setup? Will it affect boot-ability of my current setup?
- I am provisioning this when I upgrade my SSD to an nVME drive that I intend to do a fresh install of Windows 10 (which I can disable Secure Boot, Fast Boot, CSM later)

NVME drive I plan is - Adata XPG SX8200 Pro
NVME PCIe x16 adaptor - https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/magid...s415499057.html

UPDATE
I was able to flash my modded Aurora R4 A11 BIOS using AFUWIN for APTIO4 (https://ami.com/en/?Aptio_4_AMI_Firmware_Update_Utility.zip - under \afuwin\64\afuwin64\AfuWin64\AFUWINGUIx64.EXE)

I just programmed the Main BIOS Image, checked Do Not Check ROM ID and Restart After Programming


Link to original A11 BIOS file - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...608996924655120
Link to modded A11 BIOS file - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...208478208490510

So far, I am still able to boot (in Secure Boot) Windows 10 using my SATA SSD.

@Fernando:
Thank you so much for this. I've updated my post to reflect the process I followed.

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing (to save space)

Someone could upload a Bios mod for a GA-Z87M-D3H, updated and with support for NVMe. Thank you.

Sorry, forget my previous post. A pleasure.

Zitat von Fernando

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Success verification:
Enter the "BOOT" section of the BIOS and look for the listed bootable Disk Drives. If you now can see a new disk drive named "PATA" or "PATA SS", you can be sure,
a) that you have correctly inserted the NVMe module into the BIOS and
b) that the modded BIOS has been successfully flashed into the BIOS chip of your system.

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May i know does the PATA and PATA SS appear only when an NVME drives installed on my motherboard?

Hi guys, I'm running in a bit of a trouble. I have a Asus Rog G771JM with the modified bios to support nvme drives. I was using in it a Plextor M8Se(G) 250gb until 2 days ago. So I was planning to sell it and to upgrade the 970 evo in my PC with a 970 evo plus, and then stick the 970 evo in the laptop. After I did all of these, the laptop will see the 970 evo, will install the first part of windows, but then will not boot from it. With the plextor ssd, the windows was installed with the CSM compatibility off, and secure boot on.

By trying to install the windows on 970 evo with csm enabled, at the partitioning of the windows, it says that "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu", but this may be because of the nvme not being supported by MBR.

I tried all sorts of things, but can't seem to boot from the 970 evo. I saw on the internet that the plextor uses nvme 1.1 or 1.2 protocol and 970 uses 1.3 (this may be a fault maybe) or maybe would need to update the injected nvme module, idk. I'm asking you guys if can help me with some info and help on this? Thanks a lot.

I seem to have incompletely apply to flash my firmware as I am still unable to boot onto my NVME drive :-(
When I flash to include Boot Block, it goes with an error saying "18 - Error: Secure Flash Rom Verify fail.

Wonder if there's any way I could force to flash this :-(
I was able to successfully flash my BIOS using AFUDOS from this URL (download the attached BiosTools.zip):
https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-G...res-UEFI-Aptio4

Alternate link: here

Create a bootable DOS USB flashdrive
Copy the AFUDOS files into it together with the modded firmware.
Boot into DOS USB flashdrive
Go to the path where AFUDOS is alongside your modded firmware
Run AFUDOS moddedfirmware.bin /GAN

Here's the result. Thank you so much Fernando for your amazing talent!


Anywho, i might change my CPU from i7 3930k to Xeon E5 2670 to see if have improvements with PCIe 3.0 speeds

EDIT by Fernando: Too big sized inserted picture replaced by 2 directly attached small sized one (can be enlarged by clicking onto them)