Zitat von Camccardell im Beitrag #1140

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I cannot find that module in either the asus x79 or x99 bios files.
Where do you suggest I get that from?

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thanks! i feel silly for missing that

okay. step in the right direction I think. It now shows PATA SS on the bios, but I cannot boot from it. I also tired to do a clean install from a thumb drive, but it says "windows cannot be installed onto this disk. The computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. ensure the disk's controller is enabled from the computer's BIOS menu"

Thoughts?

I think I read Fernando say you got to load the driver for Windows installer to see the drive..

Zitat von davidm71 im Beitrag #1144

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I think I read Fernando say you got to load the driver for Windows installer to see the drive..

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You know I had a similar problem. Windows installer would not create the necessary partitions. Until I removed all the other connected hard drives from the system.
Worse comes to worse I recommend installing to a regular hard drive and clone the image to the NVME as last resort. Anyhow can the Windows installer delete and add partitions?

Also worth trying to download the latest installer image of Windows 10 ver 16xx something. I also did that. Not sure if it helped.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1147

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Zitat von Camccardell im Beitrag #1145

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it sees the drive. it gives me the error when I try to install windows onto it saying it isn't a bootable drive.

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How did you create the bootable USB Flash drive containing the OS?
Did you unplug all storage drives except the NVMe SSD before you started with the OS installation?
From which sort of USB ports (2.0/3.0/3.1) did you try to boot the USB Flash drive?
Is the NVMe SSD brandnew or already used? If the latter, in which way?
Which OS are you going to install?
Which bootable drives resp. which names are shown within the "BOOT" section of the BIOS?

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here is what I see in the bios and when I try to boot

i have Samsung 960 EVO Series - 500GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 and Asus PCI3.0 4 M2 4 1 3PIN 32GBIT SUP PCIE SSD
and my motherboard ga-z77x-ud3h am wondering if anyone have this motherboard and make it work also what he use?
thanks

I also have that PATA SS on my boot menu but I ignore it FWIW. Have you tried turning on and off CSM support, Fast boot options, etc?

You might want to also play around with AMIBCP tool though I wouldn't go crazy unless you had a dual bios option or something at risk of bricking.

Anyhow I would recommend you try the M8Pe drive instead as it may have its own option rom on the card making it easier to boot from NVME.

Or choose another brand of NVME drive with option rom installed.

One more thing to try. Create a Clover USB bootable key with the NVMExpressDxe driver installed on the Clover USB key. See if by booting that USB key if Clover boot menu
if you can boot your drive once you clone your Windows OS from SSD onto the NVME. They recently released a new Clover version and new NVMExpressDxe version and if that works it
might be worth it converting the newer version of NVMExpress into a FFS file for inclusion into the bios..

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1152

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@Camccardell:
What about the "Fast Boot" and Secure Boot" BIOS settings?
Why has your 500 GB sized SSD only 68,3 GB free space?
Have you tried to turn off your optical drive before starting the OS installation onto your NVMe SSD?

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