Forum - RE: will raising blclk affect a bookable NVMe in the PCIe slot

#5626 | RE: will raising blclk affect a bookable NVMe in the PCIe slot datum

Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:55 pm

Thank you for your reply. I guess I should phrase my question differently. Will I still be able to overclock the blclk, once I use an M.2 SSD in a x4 PCIe slot as my boot drive? My board is an Asus ROG Maximus IV Extreme.

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#5627 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:24 pm (Last edited: Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:25 pm)

@supervisor: Please read >this< report written by the Forum member OldGuy.
Note: It doesn't matter, whether the removal of the ca. 2 KB sized capsule is done before or after the insertion of the NVMe module.
By the way - can you use your NVMe SSD as bootable system drive or not? If you can, you should be happy and neither try to re-flash the modded BIOS nor to search for the NVMe SSD within the BIOS. It may be only shown there as "Windows Boot Manager".

@Biggerguy: Only a user with the exactly same configuration can answer your question. I don't think, that the ability to do some overclocking will be strongly affected by the connection of an NVMe SSD to one of the PCIe slots, but I don't know it for sure.
According to my own experiences the creation and usage of an Intel RAID0 array had a huge effect on my BIOS settings regarding overclocking. I had to set everything to "DEFAULT".

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#5628 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:04 pm (Last edited: Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:09 pm)

THX for your help.

Solution :
My fault :
In dos
afudos update.cap /gan
restart
bios not update

Right solution :
afudos originalbios.cap
(wait for update bios)
afudos updatebios.cap /gan
(wait for update long time)
restart

Bios see nvme disk. Yeeeess

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#5629 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:13 pm

@supervisor:
It is fine, that you finally were able to get the modded BIOS properly flashed and now got full NVMe support with your old mainboard.

Zitat von supervisor im Beitrag #5628
afudos updatebios.cap /gan

Really?
It should have been "afudos updatebios.rom /gan!

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#5630 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:01 am

Yes.....
Right solution :
afudos originalbios.cap
(wait for update bios)
afudos updatebios.cap /gan
(wait for update long time)
restart

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#5631 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:11 am

@supervisor:
There is no real difference between your 2 latest post.
I repeat: Is the second command "afudos updatebios.cap /gan" correct?
Haven't you executed the command "afudos updatebios.rom /gan"?

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#5632 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:47 am (Last edited: Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:31 am)

@Fernando , hoping you can help me out.
I have an ASUS ROG Maximus V Formula that I'd love to use an NVME SSD with. Can you help me with a modded BIOS file?
latest BIOS can be found here: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...A-ASUS-1903.zip
Thank you!

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#5633 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:51 am

@bhamilton:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
I wouldn't have spent several days of my free time with writing a step-by-step guide (= start post), if I were willing (and be able) to do the BIOS modding work myself for all interested users (until now 1.800.0000).
So if you want to to get an NVMe SSD bootable with your current system, you should follow my instructions. If you are unsure regarding your work, feel free to attach the original and your modded BIOS as *.ZIP archives.
By the way - the BIOS modding procedure itself is very easy and not risky at all. The dangerous part begins, when you are going to flash the modded BIOS, but this work has to be done by you anyway.
Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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#5634 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:45 pm

I looked again. Really both files *.cap

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#5635 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:49 pm

Zitat von supervisor im Beitrag #5634
Really both files *.cap

Then you have done it the wrong way, but obviously were lucky and succeeded nevertheless.

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#5636 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:06 pm

Hi,

a few days ago I was going to modify the BIOS based on the guide int he first post.

My Hardware:
- Board: ASUS P9X79WS
- CPU: Intel Xeon 2685

- PIC-E to NVMe - adapter: Silverstone ECM21
- NVMe SDD: Western Digital WD_Black SN750 1TB

Here is the original, latest BIOS v4901 and the adapted one:
on mega.nz, add "/file/7yoFkZxB#IC_j6v0qfKsc82yHxFppwDdV48uakwITyA6oH0WaZ9c"
(I am not yet allowed to post links).

Unfortunately, the SSD does not show up neiter in BIOS nor in Windows 10.

Modification of BIOS:
I first tried to mod the BIOS with the MMTool. It only worked with version 5. Even then, it complained that the new file could not ne secured (encrypted?)
So I used the other software, the UEFITool 027
I inserted the file "NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs".
I tried to identify the correct

Writing of the BIOS
I used the windows ASuite II.
I provided the original file, had a check and then replaced the file with the modded file.

It did result in a re-write of the BIOS, as I had to e.g. set up the RAID draive again in BIOS.

Any ideas what I can do?

Cheers,
McTrinsic

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#5637 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:41 pm (Last edited: Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:41 pm)

With Asus motherboards that support Bios FlashBack, this is the safest way to flash the mod bios, as is yours.

[Guide] How to flash a modded AMI UEFI BIOS

Done it to several ASUS P9X79

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#5638 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:52 pm

@McTrinsic:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum and thanks for having uploaded the original and your modded BIOS!
Contrary to you I had no problem at all to open the original BIOS by using the AMI Aptio IV MMTool v4.50 and to get the NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs "as is" properly inserted into the Volume 2.
Your modded BIOS cannot work, because you resp. your used tool obviously destroyed even the BIOS capsule (the first Bytes).
Please retry to do the BIOS modification with the MMTool v4.50 and post here the link to it. Then I will compare your result with my work.
Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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#5639 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:06 am

OK, did as suggested.

Here are the files.

mega.nz -> /file/muxGkC5Y#ckrgvlYo0M5jWsuMKinC6NhYhKeRX5BHWHN2uuTWNUM

It seems this time it worked and I may have an idea why.
Saving etc. just worked. Also ASUS Update (Windows) does not complain.
It could be that I opned the MMTool directly in the zip archive and did not unpack the whole archive.

Thanks,
McT

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#5640 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:21 am

@McTrinsic:
Now your modded BIOS is absolutely identical with the BIOS I modded yesterday.
So it is ready for being flashed by using the ASUS USB Flashback feature - good luck!

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