@ mavortium
Just want to share my experience on my Gigabyte mobo:
Strange that you guys needed the Z97 Gigabyte NVMe modules. I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD4H and used the uncompressed NVMe module from the first post.
I added the module with the MMTool.exe to the latest BIOS of my mobo.
After flashing the new BIOS i disabled all Intel and Marvell Sata ports in the BIOS. Then i was able to install Win10 x64 on my SM961 256GB.
After the Win10 installation i enabled the Sata ports again, installed all drivers and everything was running perfect.
I'm using the DeLock PCIE to M.2 adapter, part# 89370. Nice thing on this adapter is that there's a HDD power LED connector which works very well.
I installed the adapter with SSD on the 2nd PCIE X8 port which should give better speeds than on the lowest PCIE X4 port.

Enjoy your 960 EVO

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1314

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Zitat von atomicWAR im Beitrag #1313

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My question is this, am i doing something wrong here.

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Obviously yes, otherwise you would have succeeded to get the modded BIOS successfully flashed by using the ASUS USB Flashback feature.

Zitat

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When using flash back my bios is named R4E.cap like it has been in the past when using it.

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The correct BIOS name should have been R4E.CAP
For further details you may look into >this< guide, which had been written for exactly your mainboard.

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So I double checked my flashing procedures against the walk-through you posted. The file type for usb was indeed fat 32 and the spelling was R4E.CAP i just typo'd in my earlier post as I was tired. For what ever reason Asus Flash Back is not accepting the modded bios. Again I checked it against the source bios which will flash, as soon as I mod it and add the NVMe module (which I checked it is there) Asus Flash Back won't take it. As I stated early I hold down the button while the stick is in the white USB slot for 3 seconds (tried longer as well) but I only get 3-4 flashes on the button and it goes black. When I have used Flash Back with the unmodded file it would blink for a minute or so and everything would be defaulted which is not happening with the modded as mentioned. Again I do not doubt I am making a mistake somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it. I normally don't have these kinds of difficulties modding/flashing/hacking my hardware/software so any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Well I have tried several more approaches since my last post. I have tried disconnecting all drives then installing windows 10 to the NVMe drive. While in install it runs great when I reboot I get a bios error saying I need to correct my CSM settings to recognize my boot device. I tried every combo I can think of to no avail. I have redone your walk through several times from scratch with no difference in Asus Flash Back rejecting the modded bios (and only rejects the modded bios, stock is fine). With both insert FFS options used (first insert compressed as listed in walk-through and then insert as is) always under vol. index 2 which is the location of my CSMCORE volume 2 index 4D to insert NVMeEpressDxE.ffs. When I check to see if the file saves properly in MMtool as you stated the module shows up as the last Volume 2 index as volume 2 index A3. I even tried installing windows 7 using the NVMe driver listed by Samsung and while the drive will recognize, windows 7 will not allow install to said drive. My goal was to try to update using the media creation tool but since I couldn't get past Win 7 install that clearly didn't work out. I am really at a loss but not about to give up.

@Fernando, would you mind modding an RIVE 4901 bios and sending it my way? I know it is a fair amount to ask and I will not hold you accountable for the results. I just want to see if I am missing something or this is something else we are both missing. It would help me a lot. If not I understand due to the potential risks involved. Any other ideas or install methods would be appreciated.

I also tried an older bios version 4804 with the same results.

Like I said any help is appreciated. I have run this walk-through 30 times at least now. Here is a .Rar of the last one I tried.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qkbsoon9im6qt01/R4E.rar?dl=0

Missed the attach as I am new to the forum. Here it is.

I have also tried Flash Back directly after resetting my CMOS again with no changes. I hoped maybe a setting in my bios had prevented it, I was wrong.

I have tested the source bios before modding and they flashed fine. I have re-downloaded 4901 several times from asus as well as tried an older versions of the bios with the same results. I wonder what makes my RIVE different from everyone else. I have tried several different RIVE NVMe walk-throughs from your thread, yours obviously first but including enyceedanny's listed below and a few others.

[Guide] How to get full NVMe support for Intel Chipset systems from 6-Series up (40)

Not to mention several RIVE NVMe walk-throughs found or talked about via you-tube channels/rog forums/ Overclocker forums to no avail. Again something about my RIVE board in particular seems to have issues. Anyways If someone gets any ideas please let me know. And thanks for your help!!!

I got it to work. I had to switch thumb sticks of all things. I loaded the modded bios onto my secondary bios chip. I knew I was doing something stupid wrong. Apparently the thumb-stick had some weird partitioning going on. I figured it when i tried an older bios on asus flashback instead of in bios (which is what I had been doing). I had only tried the modded bios with flashback rog usb/button. All the other flashes where in bios. Anyways when Flashback wouldn't accept a vanilla bios I knew something was up. apparently it was fat 32 but GPT partition and it needed a MBR partition. So If you having the same issue I was check your USB's partition.Thanks so much for you help. Just cloning my disk now to see if I can salvage my windows install otherwise I'll do a freshy.