As per the title really, am i clutching at straws hoping for support of the Samsung SM951 in the Z87m OC Formula BIOS ?
Here's the system specs.....
Motherboard - Z87m OC Formula, BIOS P1.90
CPU - Intel 4790K
HDD - Nil
mSATA - 500gb Samsung 850 Evo
PCIe_3 populated with an Addonics AD3M2SPX4 - (M2 PCIe + 2 M2 SATA) adapter card, mounted to this I have 1x Samsung m.2 250gb 850 Evo SSD, 1 spare SATA m.2 slot, and on the reverse side, a 250gb Samsung SM951 (x4 speed Gen3.0 PCIe)
Intended OS - Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Problem is, as i'm sure a lot of you are aware,the SM951, like it's predecessor the XP941 carries no opROM making it wholly reliant on the motherboard BIOS to support it, the model i have is AHCI compliant.
I had hoped, that because the BIOS for the board is fairly new, that they might have added support, like a number of others have, I opted for this one and not the z97 because it's basically better for my needs, and the m.2 implementation is not good enough on the z97 version for the x4 Gen3 device.
Unfortunately, whilst the BIOS "system browser" sees the AHCI controller installed in PCIe_3 and windows setup sees it, and will install to it, it is not bootable, nor fully recognised in the BIOS, i have tried a number of the tricks around altering or disabling CSM, and have tried installing form a UEFI prepared Flashdrive setup, and i've forced it into UEFI and GPT mode manually from CD as well, all with the same "no boot device detected" message.
So, can anyone help ? is there a beta BIOS floating around i could use?... or will there ever be one ? or should i just give up and buy a Kingston HyperX x4 Gen2 PCIe m.2 ?
Thanks for any help
Here's the system specs.....
Motherboard - Z87m OC Formula, BIOS P1.90
CPU - Intel 4790K
HDD - Nil
mSATA - 500gb Samsung 850 Evo
PCIe_3 populated with an Addonics AD3M2SPX4 - (M2 PCIe + 2 M2 SATA) adapter card, mounted to this I have 1x Samsung m.2 250gb 850 Evo SSD, 1 spare SATA m.2 slot, and on the reverse side, a 250gb Samsung SM951 (x4 speed Gen3.0 PCIe)
Intended OS - Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Problem is, as i'm sure a lot of you are aware,the SM951, like it's predecessor the XP941 carries no opROM making it wholly reliant on the motherboard BIOS to support it, the model i have is AHCI compliant.
I had hoped, that because the BIOS for the board is fairly new, that they might have added support, like a number of others have, I opted for this one and not the z97 because it's basically better for my needs, and the m.2 implementation is not good enough on the z97 version for the x4 Gen3 device.
Unfortunately, whilst the BIOS "system browser" sees the AHCI controller installed in PCIe_3 and windows setup sees it, and will install to it, it is not bootable, nor fully recognised in the BIOS, i have tried a number of the tricks around altering or disabling CSM, and have tried installing form a UEFI prepared Flashdrive setup, and i've forced it into UEFI and GPT mode manually from CD as well, all with the same "no boot device detected" message.
So, can anyone help ? is there a beta BIOS floating around i could use?... or will there ever be one ? or should i just give up and buy a Kingston HyperX x4 Gen2 PCIe m.2 ?
Thanks for any help
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