Hello, I have a problem with updating my BIOS.
I have an old Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 Desktop and I wanted to upgrade it with Kingston A2000 500 GB M.2 2280 PCI-E x4 Gen3 NVMe and adapter to PCIe x16.
But I couldn't not find disk in BIOS boot sequence. That is how I have found this forum.

I have upload my BIOS below, or here is link --- https:// download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_bios/fbjtdeusa.zip

I followed the steps from the first page. Downloaded the AMMTool (4.50.0.23) and inserted "NvmExpressDxe_4" into "IMAGEFB.ROM", but when I want to update the BIOS with this modification there is an error "Secure Flash Rom Verify fail".





Do you know what is wrong?

Successfully patched BIOS for SuperMicro X9SCL-F. Great guide. Can I share modded BIOS here? Is it acceptable?

Hello!

I am looking for some help getting NVME support on the R4E board. Base on what I can find it's doable on the x79 series board but its way over my head. I found a bios that works for the black edition but I feel that may cause my issues since I'n not using that version. Let me know what is needed.

Help is much appreciated!

Thanks!

That looks to be what I was looking for.
There was another quirk I was looking to see if it was possible to change.

ROG Rampage 4 Extreme actually only supports PCIE 2.0. From what I recall this had to do with not being able to purchase the "rights" in time or something like that.

nVidia has a bat file you can run to enable it from windows but does anyone know if there is a way to enable it from the bios level?

google "x79 pcie 3" and the first link refers to what I am talking about.

I'm not sure what it does exactly. It opens cmd prompt briefly and then it's "done".

Looks to enable PCIE3.0 and the 8GT/s speeds. This is done in windows level (it would seem) and I was hoping someone may know of way to enable this at the bios level so that I may have it run at 3.0 speeds in other operating systems.

Hi, Can someone help with a modded BIOS and instructions how to flash for a Thinkcentre m93p to enable PCICE NVME booting?

@isgraceenough

The Asus ROG IV EXTREME or any other based X79 chipset will enable and use by default PCIe 3.0 using any processor above SandyBridge-E
We will need a a 4820K IvyBridge-E, so leave NVidia away from this...this is Intel subject.

I joined up specifically to thank the OP for this thread. I was able to adjust the bios for my ASUS Z87-WS motherboard using the ROG usb bios flashback method. I also had to export the body.rom, modify that and reinject using a hex editor so that the .cap file would flash correctly. It is renamed correctly to allow flashing via the USB method and attached here for anyone else who needs it. I'm in Canada, so not sure if this work for EU folks or not. I am using a Samsung 1TB EVO 970 mounted to a PCIe adapter from amazon that included heat pads and a small external heat sink. This SSD does run 45C or so, and I found it runs best in the PCIe slot directly under an Nvidia 1060GTX card which pulls cooling air directly over the SSD drive on its way into the video card cooling slots.

Just a point that likely has been made many times, but I was able to copy over the image from an older 500GB sata SSD to the new PCIe 1TB, but I first had to convert the original hard drive to GPT (to allow UEFI booting). I did this booting with a current windows 10 boot USB image, and running the mbr2gpt tool to convert my old SSD to GPT. There were several issues preventing this tool working which I had to work through first (googled the error messages..fixed, tried again etc.). One way or another, if you're starting with a non UEFI boot, you need to convert it before or after cloning using a windows 10 bootable USB before you can use it as a bootable drive.

If you have an existing OS that is not a GPT formatted HD, then you should mod the bios, then get it booting OK in UEFI mode first before you try to clone it to a new PCIe SSD.

What worked:

1. Bios was mod'd using the attached BIOS using the USB flashback method with the attached bios file unzipped and copied to the root of a FAT32 formatted USB. Don't change the name or it won't work.
2. The original Samsung Evo 500GB was converted to GPT and tested OK booting in UEFI mode using a windows 10 boot disk -> command prompt and mbr2gpt tool (google it).
3. I download Macrium Reflect free and created a bootable USB from the program GUI.
4. Booting from the Macrium boot USB, you can clone the disk. (samsung data migration tool did not work at all)
5. Changed the boot order in BIOS to the new 1TB UEFI option.
6. Tested to see that I was getting the full rated read/write speeds from the Samsung 1TB EVO 970.
7. If you have boot issues, try the Macrium boot disk which has a tool to repair the boot process.

There are a lot of bios options to mess with to get a fast boot, but it does work great. You may need to disable all other options in the boot area of BIOS to get the workstation to boot off a given USB boot disk while doing the above. Thanks again for the great work in this post!!