@Fernando
Thank you for your analysis.
You right, my laptop have no free space for this kind of hack :(

So, for you, any solutions in this board can't help me ?
Clover, DUET-REFIND, or the solution for 960 EVO ?

I've check, I can return it before 17 of this month, I can try others things before return it :)

Thanks again, and no problem for the "bad" news, I've bought it with this possibilty in my mind.

Hey guys - been following this thread for a while, and after reading @undef 's post ([Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS (299)) about his modded BIOS that allowed him to use his Asus Sabertooth 9905FX v1 with a nVMe module and PCIe adapter, I installed it and gave it a try.

The BIOS seems to recognize the drive as "pata", but I am unable to boot to it. I've tried repairing the boot sector, imaging an existing windows install onto it.. But can't seem to booth from it at all. Any ideas on what else I can try? Even with a clean Win 10 boot it says it can't install onto the drive because it's not compatibile.

I'm really well versed on EFI, UEFI, and other boot technologies so am trying to feel my way around here. Any help would be greatly appreciate from anyone that has the v1 of this motherboard.

Thanks!
Chris.

Hi Fernando,

Thanks for the quick response!
1. I don't seem to have a "secure boot" or "fast boot" option in the Asus Sabertooth 990FX BIOS..
2. The BIOS doesn't make any indication that the device is capable of UEFI as it does when I connect a really HDD to it. Is this expected?
3. I tried installing Win10 from a thumb drive but it said that the drive was not suitable for installing Windows onto. Not sure if this is a install-time driver requirement issue?

Thank again!
Chris.

So I've actually had luck! I initially attempted to install from the Win10 boot thumb drive. It did not see it as a drive that was eligible to install to, because it could not boot from that drive. However, I just tried attaching a SATA drive as drive 0, and my NVMe as drive 1. The Win10 setup let me install it to drive 1 this way! Presumably because it thought that even though it couldn't boot from the NVMe, that perhaps it could put the boot information on the first drive. However, there was no dependence upon drive 0, as I was able to remove it and still boot with *just* the NVMe drive in and without any other utilities to assist.

Not sure if this makes sense, or if I'm missing something, but without that dummy SATA drive in there it wouldn't let me proceed with the Win10 install. Of course, over the course of a week long troubleshooting session, there may have been something else I did along the way. Perhaps I downloaded a newer version of the Win10 installation utility? That's the only thing I can think of..

I appreciate the assistance. I was almost at the end of my tether. :)

Hello. I try to follow Hyde, but I can't figure out how to find out if I edited the BIOS correctly. How do I compare old and new BIOS? All entries in the list are the same except for a single new nvme item.
Motherboard ECS B75H2-M3. Thanks.

@Fernando
I still have the file name changed with a *cap on *rom. Is it OK? Thanks for your help.
https://dropmefiles.com/O1Jhv

@Fernando
Thank you very much, tomorrow I will try.

This thread was moved from:

GA-Z97X GAMING 7 AND CRUCIAL 1T SSD

where other steps were solved to progress to final success :)


OK :) I am now in the stage where all my systems on this PC can see SSD NVMx



The disk SSD is visible with cloned system Win7,
The cloned disk has changed serial,
The cloned System had reg "Mounted Devices" modified to reflect this.
Easy BCD added a new option for select boot system from it
Multi-boot sees the option to boot from it,
and when selected, BootManager says "cannot find the partition: error... ZONK"
you all know such case from your experience :).

On Bios-Mods I have started request about modification of bios F6
for this MoBo, as in instruction "How to..."
[Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS
and here I left screen only (due to size limitations of attached files).



But a bit scary to flash this what I modified.
please, can you verify the file?
As I mentioned many times, I am a bit unlucky, and all possible bugs and typos are sticking to me as freaking hunny to Winnie the Pooh :)

Just to remind:
mobo: GA-Z97X GAMING 7 BIOS F6
SSD is Crucial: P1 CT1000P188D8 M.2/PCX connected to mini PCX onboard.
Still can not load it here so there is the link to the bios-mods.com forum thread where it is loaded :
https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-G...and-IME-REQUEST

To all here: have better days than mine recently...