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#P9X79 DELUXE MAC NETWORK DRIVE MOD#
So then I went for the BIOS mod option, working great fully bootable! However there was one big thing that I had to fix first.Īfter I did the mod, I had cloned my previous drive over to the 960 EVO but it still wasn't being recognized by the BIOS. I could get it recognized in a Windows installation boot USB (though was being denied as a boot disk that could have Windows installed to it) and from within Windows too but that's as far as I could get it. I first try'd to get it to boot via its own OptionROM, but sadly I couldn't get it to go. I'm also going to use the ASUS M.2 to PCI-E 4x adapter and place it in the 2nd graphics slot which will enable it to get PCI-E 3.0 to run at full me most of the night testing but finally got my Samsung 960 EVO booting on my ASUS P8Z77-V Pro Z77 motherboard. Otherwise I'll be using the BIOS mod to get it to work. My 960 EVO comes in the mail tomorrow and I will test it on my ASUS P8Z77-V Pro Z77 motherboard to confirm. Samsung has NVMe support built into their SSD's so your supposed to be able to set your MB BIOS to legacy mode and be able to see it and boot off of it. However there is a 2nd safer option, though I have yet to test it and find out if its 100% for sure. One that was mentioned is you mod your BIOS to add the NVMe support in, the mod is actually relatively straight forward using MMTool to patch it in and flash a BIOS. In general as other have said if its not natively supported in the BIOS you can't use them as boot drives, however there are 2 exceptions to this. I'm using a Rampage IV Black Edition motherboard which has no native M.2 slots, so what issues, if any would I run into when trying to use one of these SSDs as a boot drive over an PCIe card with an M.2 slot? I wanted to know whether it would be possible to theoretically use an NVMe M.2 SSD such as a 960 evo as a boot drive on an X79 system.