@jurapower:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your report!
It is fine, that you got your Toshiba NVMe SSD working as bootable system drive.
Maybe you will get even better WRITE scores, if you enable both Write-Caching "Policy" options of the SSD (look >here< into point 8).

@fabonline:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your step-by-step report about how you got your Samsung 960 PRO working as bootable system drive with your Z87 chipset system.
This may help othe users with a similar system.

@Johnnnnn:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!
You may be able to boot off the Intel 750 SSD in LEGACY mode (if the NVMe Controller chip of the SSD contains the required NVMe Option ROM), but if you want to boot your NVMe SSD in UEFI mode, you probably have to insert the NvmeExpressDxE.ffs module into the BIOS according the start post of this thread. Don't forget to use the ASUS USB Flashback feature while trying to flash the modded BIOS.

@RJ:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

Zitat von RJ im Beitrag #1303

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Any chance if i renamed your modded bios to P9X79D will work in P9X79 Deluxe?

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I did a uefi install on the asus p9x79 ws and i can t boot with it also, so the real question is, is it better to flash the modules also, has this any meaning for me than?

Zitat von Johnnnnn im Beitrag #1307

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I did a uefi install on the asus p9x79 ws and i can t boot with it also

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is it better to flash the modules also, has this any meaning for me than?

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Yes I recommend to insert the missing NVMe EFI module according to the start post of this thread, because this way you will be able to boot off the NVMe SSD in UEFI mode (gives you much shorter boot time and other additional features).

Hi Fernando,
I have recently joined and find your input as well as those of other members very informative, thx.
I have an Asus P9X79 system using BIOS 4801 initially modded with single NMVeExpress line from ROG forum. This worked for getting Samsung 950Pro with AngelWings PCIe card running as boot drive for Win 10. I have recently tried to do the same with a new 960Pro with no success. I have modded 4801 adding the 3 lines listed in earlier posts but the 960 Pro is not recognized. is this a dead end? is there some combination of these 4 lines that might work? Samsung Migration and Magician software sees the drive and works with it. So it seemed like it might be an easy fix but i have been unsuccessful.
RJ

@RJ:
Please have a look into >this< success report written by the Forum member fabonline, who has the same NVMe SSD model as you (Samsung 960 Pro).
Maybe this will help you.

@Fernando:
I see i did make an error in my writhing, i did mean to say, i can boot in windows 10 in eufi mode whitout any modification of my asus p9x79 ws bios.
My mistake.
"you will be able to boot off the NVMe SSD in UEFI mode" This i can already no problem at all.
other additional features , what kind of features are extra?

EDIT by Fernando: Absolutely unneeded fully quoted post replaced by a direct address (to save space)

@Johnnnnn:
One of the extra features of booting in UEFI mode is the ability to boot from large disks (over 2 TiB).

So I have read countless pages of this thread trying to get an Asus Rampage IV Extreme motherboard to recognize an NVMe drive (960 evo attached via angel wings). I tried to mod my bios using your guide with no luck (both via Asus flashback using the white USB port and button as well as in bios). In bios I get a failed security check using bios version 4901 which is the latest and most stable for my uses up til now. When using the white rog USB port with flash back I get 3-4 blinks and then nothing changes when I boot. I do understand .cap are harder to mod then .rom (found that in your thread as well) but I am locked into the .cap situation from what I understand. My question is this, am i doing something wrong here. When using flash back my bios is named R4E.cap like it has been in the past when using it. In bios I have tried r4E.cap and the default name given to the file from asus's download section for RIVE. It always fails to flash. I did check the unmodded version of the 4901 bios I am using at it will flash fine.

My first efforts revolved around trying to clone my OS drive from an SSD raid 0 which was installed via UEFI as some of the youtubers like JonnyTechTips said he had simply cloned his OS drive to get things working on a RIVE board. Then I tired to install windows 10 via USB stick and the drive did show up, started/completed the install but when it was time to reboot things hung after post/UEFI pages past leaving me with a " _ " on a black screen.

Some other notes I am running SLI and physx cards (PCIe red slots 1,3 and 4) but I am using the second red PCIe slot (tried the grey one too) with angel wings and the 960 Evo. I have SSD drives installed on all my SATA 6G ports and one SSHD on 3G port. I have also tried every setting under the sun regarding the CSM (on/off/auto uefi only/both legacy/etc). One the up side while in windows 10 the 960 Evo works just fine as a data drive and I am getting PCIe 3.0 speeds with the force-enable-gen3 patch on an i7 3930k. Reads are 3390MB/s writes are 1809MB/s in Crystal Disk mark 5.0.2 x64.

So whats my best approach here? I see lots of folks getting this working on RIVE boards I just happen to not be one of them. Any suggestions or advice would be most welcome. Great thread btw, which makes me hate having to ask all the more. Feeling rather dumb at this point.

@atomicWAR:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

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

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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.

Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

hi,
intel 750 and p3700 card have their own OPROM integrated so even an old bios ca see it and boot (SS: PATA you will see)

the probelm is that samsung ones 950 and 960 are "pure" nmve driver (without oprom) and so you will need to andd nmve module to your bios to scan PCI-E searching NMVE devices...

hope you have understood...

Zitat von adam_sandler im Beitrag #173

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Just wanted to post my successful experience getting my Intel SSD 750 to work as primary boot drive on a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H. It has been working for a few weeks now as the lone drive under Windows 10 Pro.

At first, I simply tried to boot off the SSD with the latest UEFI version for the Z77X-UD3H with no success.
So I simply took Fernando's advice and downloaded the latest BIOS version from one of Gigabyte's Z97 boards (I guess it was Z97X-UD3H). I extracted the three NVMe modules (nvme, nvmesmm, nvmeint13) using MMTool and added those modules to my original BIOS for the Z77X-UD3H.
That's all, I have been able to boot off the Intel SSD 750 ever since. Windows 10 installation has been done using a bootable USB stick with the Intel SSD being the only hard drive connected.

Well, there are a few UEFI settings I had to change:
Fast Boot --> disabled
OS Type --> Other OS (I did not manage to get it to work with OS Type set to Windows 8 or Windows 8 WHQL, even with CSM off. I could successfully boot off the SSD but there was no video output at UEFI level, which did not sit well with me)

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@mavortium:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your report!

It is fine, that you got your Samsung 960 NVMe SSD working as bootable system drive with your Z77 chipset system.

Enjoy it!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

It was a Samsung 960 EVO not an Intel 750. Thanks for the welcome and the info! Gruße!

Zitat von mavortium im Beitrag #1320

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It was a Samsung 960 EVO not an Intel 750.

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I found an alternate way to add NVME support in Asus bios by chance today.

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No, that is no alternative for the guide, which is layed down within the start post of this thread.
According to my knowledge the Samsung XP941, which I own myself, is running in AHCI mode and doesn't support NVMe.

By the way: Users, who are searching for a guide about how to boot off an M.2 SSD, which is running in AHCI mode, can find the related guide >here<. This guide seems to be very similar the the one you have linked.

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My mistake. Please delete my previous post to avoid confusion. Thank you.

EDIT by Fernando: Done! I have deleted your post and my reply.