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#6256 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:27 pm (Last edited: Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:32 pm)

@ydma24:
You should be able to attach the original and the modded BIOS deparately after having compressed them as *.ZIP or *.rar archive. If that should not work, you can put some space characters into the links.
Once I see the attachments I will do a look into your modded BIOS and compare it with the original one.

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#6257 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:29 pm

@Fernando ok. Thank you!

http s:// yadi. sk/d/XJpOXXZPddUBTQ - modded BIOS
http s://yadi. sk/d/5TN0wz4urleMTQ - original BIOS

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#6258 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 12:25 am

@ydma24:
Thanks for the links.
The BIOS modification looks fine for me.
Good luck for the flashing procedure!

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#6259 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:55 am

Does sata use pci lanes?

My cpu only has 20 lanes. 16 to graphics card and 4 to the H77 and nvme, but on-board lan uses 1 pci lane through the H77. I'm worried about sata functionality.

My drive does show up in bios with the brand and serial number. I used mmtool.

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#6260 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 4:04 am (Last edited: Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:10 am)

PCIe lanes r not an issue here as u dont have any additional controllers using pcie lanes besides the embedded Intel H77 chipset.

The main issue here, seeing the picture u posted in another thread, ur 2nd PCIe x16 should be in 3.0 x8 shared with the PCIe x16 1rst, forcing the 1050 to x8.
Also ur NVME could be in PCIe mode 3.0/2.0 @ 5.0GT/s instead of 8.0GT/s link speed, nothing u can do to achieve the 8.0GT/s link, as the only way is using iGPU and the adapter in the first x16...do to this generation of the H77 chipset and motherboard, but u cant try it becuse ur using a Xeon with no iGPU.

From GigaByte model page:

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
(The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)
* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
* The PCI Express x16 slot supports up to PCI Express 2.0 standard when an Intel 32nm (Sandy Bridge) CPU is installed.
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
1 x PCI Express x1 slot
(The PCIEX4 and PCIEX1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

In some bios can have options to change PCie link speed with the cost of disabling sata ports or other pcie, depends on the board/bios itself.

Very few models of motherboard can show in bios the NVMe added, some will show the drive if RAID controller is enable instead of ACHI, by using this method/module presented here, the mod only provides the ability to have a NVMe bootable system disk, period.

Resuming...as its stands by the picture posted u will have the NVMe @ PCIe 3.0/2.0 x4 5.0GT/s link speed in 2nd x16 slot OR NVMe @ PCIe 3.0 x16 8.0GT/s in 1st x16 slot with a iGPU.

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#6261 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:40 am (Last edited: Thu Jan 07, 2021 8:09 am)

Thanks for the response.

My understanding from the motherboard literature is the second pcie x16, runs at 2.0 x4 through the H77. I have no way to tell what's it's actually running at. I do know the graphics card on the first slot runs at x16 3.0 through the CPU. I doesnt link to the H77. When I had a sandy bridge it ran at 2.0. The cpu I have now has 4 more pci lanes and is pcie rev 3.0 vs the i5-2320.

I transferred a large file from a external drive on usb 3.0 and had a 1.7 - 2 gb/s write speed. I bought a wd blue nvme. It has a advertised 1.8 gb/s write speed.

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#6262 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:39 am (Last edited: Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:29 am)

Zitat von frankenPC im Beitrag #6252
@alpok57

I have Asrock B75 pro3 board and did the same thing but I cannot boot from NVME.
I have a 2TB XPG S40G nvme on an x4 adaptor plugged to my x16 - x4 slot.

Sorry @Fernando this was meant for alpok57..don't know why it mentioned you directly. But if you can help me that would be great. I did the process MMTool on latest bios version.
Inserted NVME ffs (the smaller one) and all it did was show me the nvme when trying to install win10 it doesn't allow me to. A little bit stumped. Currently booting windows off of a sata ssd and just using my m.2 as a storage device. It could do so much more. lol

Tried disconnecting all drives except nvme when attempting to install windows but it wouldn't let me.

Specs:
Asrock B75 Pro 3
Intel Xeon E3 1275 v2
32GB DDR3 12800
1TB Samsung EVO Sata SSD
500GB Samsung Sata SSD
2TB XPG S40G nvme (via pcie to m.2 x4 adaptor)
2TB 7200rpm
500GB 7200rpm
Gigabyte GTX 1650super

Help?

EDIT by Fernando: Self-quoting part put into a "spoiler" (to save space)

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#6263 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:17 am (Last edited: Thu Jan 07, 2021 12:05 pm)

Hello all, could I ask for some assistance in checking my modded BIOS? I followed the instructions and thought I went through with it all correctly, but when I went to flash the BIOS, I appeared to have softbricked my BIOS. Luckily, I had a SPI programmer on hand re-flashed a stock BIOS and was successful in booting my computer back up. I used and followed the MMTool instructions and thought I was successful, would it be possible for someone to verify that it is correct or did I mess up somewhere?

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion

The modded and original BIOS: w ww.mediafire.com/file/k8co4zgsyjr7llv/X79CHP_2.zip/file
(The modded BIOS is prefixed nvme, the original is in it's original format)

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#6264 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 12:45 pm

@frankenPC: Please stop quoting yourself. Furthermore I recommend to create a short "Signature" containing the most important information about your specific system. If you look into the "spoiler" of your last post, you will realize the size discrepancy between your real message, the self-quoted previous post and your listed hardware specs.

Zitat von frankenPC im Beitrag #6260
Help?

Did you already think about the eventuality, that you haven't carefully read and followed my guide, which can easily be found within the start post of this thread? More than 2 mio. of users have joined this thread until now and I don't remember anyone, who didn't succeed by strictly following my guide. You would be the first one!

@omgdaniel:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
According to my inspection of the modded BIOS you have done the insertion of the NVMe module correctly.
So I suspect, that your problem has been caused by the flashing procedure. How did you do it? Did you remove the ASRock integrity protection of the modded BIOS by using the UBU tool before you tried to flash it?
Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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#6265 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:05 pm

@Erus:

Zitat von Erus im Beitrag #6257
Does sata use pci lanes?

Yes, please look into this picture (taken from >this< page):

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#6266 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:16 pm (Last edited: Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:08 pm)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #6262
According to my inspection of the modded BIOS you have done the insertion of the NVMe module correctly.
So I suspect, that your problem has been caused by the flashing procedure. How did you do it? Did you remove the ASRock integrity protection of the modded BIOS by using the UBU tool before you tried to flash it?

Thank you for the response! I used the Instant Flash tool to flash the BIOS. I tried to use the UBU tool but it did not have an option for a integrity protection when I used it (using UBU_v1.79.12.1). I thought it was a bit odd, but when I went to flash it, it also did not give me any security errors when attempting to flash.

I just remembered that I did pull the flash image off the chip before I re-flashed the old BIOS and the md5 hash does not match that modified BIOS. It did fail to boot immediately (Error 19), so I'm not sure if the hash would have matched up exactly anyways. Could it have been a bad flash?

Thank you.

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#6267 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:14 pm

@omgdaniel:
The UBU tool removes the ASRock BIOS integrity protection automaticly after having detected an ASRock AMI Aptio IV BIOS. For details look >here<.

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#6268 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:45 pm (Last edited: Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:19 pm)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #6265
The UBU tool removes the ASRock BIOS integrity protection automaticly after having detected an ASRock AMI Aptio IV BIOS. For details look

Thank you for the quick response. If this topic is better suited for the other thread, I can post there instead.

I did follow that tool, but I'm missing the option "2" following step 5 of that topic. In particular, this step: As last step you will be asked by the UBU tool how the BIOS file should be stored.
If you want the ASRock "Security Flash Check" code being removed from the BIOS, you should choose the option "2" (new since UBU v1.76.xx).

Here's a quick image showing what I have on mine: w ww.imgur.com/a/vBoWIhD
If I do choose to rename the file, the hash of the file matches the original making me think nothing has changed about the file.

I appreciate the quick assistance.
Thanks

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#6269 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:30 pm (Last edited: Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:00 pm)

@omgdaniel:
You are absolutely right - the option 2 (for ASRock Aptio IV BIOSes) is missing within the latest UBU tool versions. As a consequence my linked guide about how to prepare such modded ASRock BIOS for a proper flashing by using the Instant Flash tool is wrong now.
I will ask the UBU maker SoniX within the "UBU Discussion" thread for a solution for affected ASRock mainboard users.

Update: It turned out, that the latest versions of the UBU tool do remove the "Security Flash Check" automaticly while detecting the content of the BIOS (provided, that such code has been implemented by ASRock and its exact location is known). That is why there is nothing additionally to do by the UBU user at the end of the processing.
Meanwhile I have updated the related part of >this< guide regarding the ASRock BIOSes.

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#6270 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:59 pm

@Fernando - If I remember correctly, I asked SoniX about this too not long ago, and I think it only shows it IF the BIOS has protections in place.
This X79 model may be old enough that there is no protection, or I could be remembering incorrectly?

Please don't send PM's for help on BIOS edits, I can't help with BIOS in PM's. Please make a thread and I will try to help as soon as I can - thanks!
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