Trillon thx @Fernando, i've bought an Adata XPG 8100 % a NVMe-PCIexpress adapter for my ASUS MA97PRO, impressive performance thx to your research & knowledge. For now i've made fresh a Windows 10 Pro (2004) that Microsoft sent to my account, just 5,45 minutes for the whole install process. In Seven AdataToolBox gives terribly wrong temp readings, in Win 10 those reads are accurate, but in both systems the Tool Box says "This is not an Adata product". Just a detail, but i would like to know how to solve this little issue to get the chance for firmware upgrades.



I've forget to take benchmarks of Win 10 as main disc, but i have the Win 7 one, as a secondary drive, & are better tan expected.

Did it work for you? @Amivit

If you're asking to me, yes, it works in an Asus M5A97 PRO, at least for Windows 10, like a charm. In a few days i'll get my Windows Seven cloned to the NVMe, but this is an ítem of another thread.

hi, Fernando, so glad to see this post..

my motherboard is MSI z87 mpower,
I see the warning message from you about the Pad file at the end of the section where CSMCORE is located, and it is in the MSI bios file.
I followed your guide using the MMTool 4.50.0.23

Here is the before / after, does this look good to you? the Pad file is still there after mod :P



Thank you very much for your help and cannot wait to flash it using MSI M-Flash feature within the BIOS(somewhere I read that it is ok to flash bios within the bios menu)

Hi Fernado, one more question...
I just checked the motherboard manual, the board has 3 pcie3.0@16, and it can operate at (16,0,0) or (8,8,0) or (8,4,4)...the other pcie are all @2.0x1 which is not beneficial for nvme...

one pciex16 is being used by graphics card GTX1060. so if i put a pcie x4 adaptor in to another pcie x16 slot, it will operate at (8,8,0) mode right? which means the graphics performance may be reduced?

Thank you very much.

Maybe one point to add to the excellent first post. Looking back at where my issues were, it also had to do with the bad translation of my BIOS.

Somit could be worth to (or stay at) switch to english for the initial setup after modification - if the user can speak a decent english.

Sorry for not being specific enough.
It is not about a certain setting and it’s name.
My suggestion was to make sure that all BIOS/UEFI setup activities are executed with language = English.
In my case some parameters were badly translated into German, causing some confusion.

Great, thanks ! 👍

successfully added the NVMe boot support for MSI MS-7693/970A-G46
thank you, @Fernando !

done
thank you for pointing out

Hi @Fernando , i've entered the link & i see many different threads, which of them is proper to leave there my M5A97 PRO moded bios?