Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1170

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I meant the BIOS file named RayS112.fd.

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Hi and happy new year to you all. I have a problem. I bought and PCIe to M.2 adapter card, Samsung 960 EVO 1TB NVMe drive and I am using x79 Sabertooth motherboard from ASUS with i7-3970x. Plenty of computing power that's why I am not currently looking for total upgrade. So with current bios I can only use the NVMe drive as a storage drive. I used the guide to insert NVMe part to my existing BIOS file. I can confirm with MMTool that the insertion was successful, but when I compared the file sizes they were exactly the same. I mean exactly same byte count. So did I do anything wrong, I mean I added something to old BIOS *.cap file, so the modded file should be larger? One more thing was that using Windows 10 setup from USB boot thumbdrive I was able to install W10 on the NVMe drive like normal, but when setup completed and computer restarted it did not recognize the NVMe drive as a boot device. So I would like to get some answers before I start flashing the bios.

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #1172

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RayS112 is an Insyde BIOS packed inside an Insyde (mmm...) container. So you cannot use AMI tools with it like MMTool or UBU. But you should be able to work with UEFITool once you unpack the actual BIOS (attached).

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I was able to make it work! I had to make a uefi boot thumb drive with windows 10 on it. I used rufus to make the drive with the windows 10 iso.
It made it so I could install onto the 960. I have been playing with it for awhile now. I cannot use MBR partitions though. This is a problem because I really wanted to clone my 840 ssd info over to it.
I tried converting the 840 drive from mbr to gpt and it was working for a little while, and then it wouldn't boot anymore. I keep getting an 0xc0000225 error and now I can no longer load windows on my 840.
So anyway, I can run a clean copy of win 10 on my p9x79pro board. It seems slower than then 840 did though. Boot times as well as loading apps within windows. I'll have to give it time, but so far not impressed.

You should run an AS SSD benchmark on both drives for comparison.

Dear all. I have an Asus Rampage IV Extreme motherboard. I want to buy an Samsung 950 PRO 256GB SSD (NVME). Has someone had the experience that this works (to boot with win10 64b) with a modded BIOS 4901.
This with an m2 adapter to PCIe.
Thanks in advance!

So I modded my bios. Installed it. Made new bootable media with rufus and used the GPT option. Installed windows. And still no boot device. I am having "Insert boot disk" error. SEmms like It does not work for me.

So you have Uefi boot enabled in bios? It's hopeful that you were able to install Windows. That's half the battle. I would try to boot from a Clover nvmexpress enabled USB stick to check your installation was successful.

Uefi boot was enabled. The drive has an EFI paritition I can see when I am in my old windows installation. then NVMe ssd has all the files from successful windows installation. I was able to install windows on that drive before also, before BIOS mod. but to boot I can't manage to configure it. Windows boot manager does not appear in my boot devices. How to create dual windows boot and use existing SSD boot sector but hold files on NVMe SSD? Is that even possible?

@kaber,

It's possible your bios isn't creating a Uefi Entry for the drive. You might have to manually create the Uefi boot entry using a Uefi shell using bcfg. The exact way to do it escapes me at the moment but instructions are on the internet and I've done it before. The only thing is if you reset cmos it's lost. This might work. Maybe.

thanks for the info, but as it seems x79 deluxe from asus has nvme support with ASUS bios update to version 4805. I opened it with MMTool and found 3 files with nvme in their names. First of all i have also x79 chipset motherboard with latest bios being 4801 would it be possible to update my motheboard with x79DELUXE bios file? OR better extract those 3 modules from that 4805 bios and insert into latest bios version 4801 of SABERTOOTHs bios?