How to install and make bootable an nvme ssd on an old asus motherboard 

Kudos to all the hobbyist for posting here but somewhere there was a post that indicated that the Samsung EVO Pro NVMe M.2 was one of the very few cards that had a built in "boot loader" (hope the terminology is correct) and would boot Windows10 automatically on an older machine and without any adjustments/hacks to the BIOS!!.... After inserting the adapter/card in a PCI slot, it immediately worked for me on a MSI B75A-G43 M/B!!

Thank you very much! I managed to do it just as you advised in the guide. With the ASUS P8Z77-M PRO motherboard with BIOS 2203, the NVME M2 hard drive now boots without any issues. The transfer speed of 1300 MB/s works only in PCI-E 2.0, but it's sufficient.

This guide worked perfectly for me ASUS RAMPAGE IV EXTREME. Cloned my smaller SSD, expanded to nvme using Acronis. Didn't even need to reinstall windows, nvme drive showed up after following procedure + reboot after setting UFEI @ CSM and could boot from after that first time. Amazing!

Thank you!!!.In some places you ran too fast but you gave link of original source which was useful in understanding the missing points. Thanks for your complete demo.

Worked on my Asus P8Z68-V PRO i followed the tutorial from win-raid, checked the pad-files and all worked fine, thanks so much for sharing such a good content!

I subbed just because of your voice

Merci pour l'info ! Et génial, ça m'a fait penser à "Smith & Wesson" dans les bureaux de la compagnie d'assurance à New York (l'aventure c'est l'aventure).. Merci !

OMG!!! Worked on P8Z77-v deluxe! Thank you soooooo much. I FELT MY HEART POUNDING FAST DURING THE FLASH WITH THE MODDED FILE but thankfully it worked beautifully, thanks again, Greetings from Brazil!

Thank you so much, ive just managed to do in a MOBO P8Z77-V Deluxe and it worked just fine! Fantastic guide! Keep up the great job!

Thank you very much for providing this solution and explaining it so well. For those who have doubts, I will tell you that I have made this modification in the bios of a Gigabyte B85M-D3H board successfully. 😀 Greetings from A Coruña/Galiza/Spain

At first I didn't know if this was a foreign language video or not, then I wasn't sure if it was male or female speaking. Once I regained my composure i flashed a Asus P9X79 LE motherboard and now have Read speed 3500MB/s and Write 3100MB/s on PCIE 3.0, wow, thanks

Thank you very much RU-vid, thank you very much for your video, the explanation is very detailed, and reliable download links are provided for various required programs. My computer knowledge is very limited, but after watching your video, I successfully upgraded

Parfait, cerise sur le gâteau j'ai pas eu besoin du traducteur !!! Merci bcp pour ce tuto.

Sei mesi dopo e dopo un attento studio dell'intero filmato (tutorial), ho apportato la modifica indicata. Inserito l'SSD M2 con adattatore nello slot PCIe e reso avviabile. Tutto è andato molto molto bene. Tutto perfetto sulla scheda madre ASUS P8Z77-M che è risultata compatibile quanto la -V. Congratulazioni al creatrice di questo video e molti ringraziamenti. Sono a disposizione se avete domande da fare.

Thanks so much, this worked perfectly. Btw I love your voice it is like a mix och Christopher Walken and Inspector Clouseau :)

Thanks buddy, I have been trying to do this for a week or so, the paper walkthrough was a bit overwhelming and hard to follow, but once I found your video it was all easy peasy!! Asus x79 Rampage IV Black Edition (that wont boot into the BIOS after version 0602 for some bizarre reason, so none of the available modded BIOS downloads would work)

You saved my troubles i appreciate your trick a lot!! my usb flash port is dead of my Asus Rampage IV Extreme and you made it possible , you saved me hours of electronic repairment, love you!!!

The voice make me play until finish. thank you.

I exactly have the same setup P8Z77-V ATX/i5 3570k thank you so much for this video! I just purchased a cheap used Rx 580 at 30$ USD to stretch my old Pc for a bit longer going from my old GTX670. I really wanted to know if i could get an NVME SSD and also that i could put it in my next Pc. Thanks again from Quebec Canada! :)

J'ai regardé la vidéo rien que pour ton accent ^^. J'ai utilisé moi aussi un 3570k pendant plus de 7ans et il reste encore une bête de course mos j'ai préféré changer l'an dernier pour une génération 11 avec des ports M2 sur la nouvelle carte. Non pas que le processeur ne marchait plus mais après toute ces années d'intense labeur, j'avais quand même peur qu'il finisse par flancher. Merci a toi pour cette vidéo en tout cas.

Thank you very much.❤❤❤ I have been trying for 2 days. Until I found your video, Finally I succeeded

Worked perfectly with ASUS P8B WS Motherboard.

it did work for me first try on a MSI H61MU-E35(B3), the only thing i had to do was using the M-Flash function directly in BIOS, i had to rename the modded bios to the exact OG bios name, used a usb2 stick on a usb2 port and it worked. actually suprised, was expecting to brick XD thanks!

Thanks!! Worked on ASUS Z87-K

P8H61-M LX R2.0 done!!! Very easy step to do it Thank you so much

I have the exact same motherboard and CPU, purchased almost 11 years ago now and it still serves me well! The only consideration that should be made is that it has only 16 lanes, and populating the other PCI-e with the NVMe will result in 8x max for a discrete 16x GPU if it is present. This may reduce the performance of the old thing a bit (unless the NVMe upgrade outweighs that - not sure). Still very interesting tutorial, and love the accent. Salutations du nord de la Belgique!

This is French, isn't it??

working perfect on my ASUS p8b75-m le THX

Thank you very much!!!!!!! i was able to add nvme support to j1900n-d3v with this tutorial, much love

procedure works great for ASUS P8P67 PRO (REV 3.1) motherboard, thank you !

thank you!! it works perfect.

This worked perfectly, thanks so much!!!

Cool tutorial bro! I still boot up from my SATA SSD but i store my games in the NVMe drive because it's way faster. The performance of my RX580 and 3770K were being bottleneck by SSD.

Thanks for the clue. I have AMI bios on my older servers and now have one booting to an NVMe Optane. My UEFI bios is old, non graphical. Oddly as a boot option I don't see NVMe, I see PATA SS. After OS install it shows "UEFI OS on my NVMe model number" as an option. Boots perfect and fast.

Thank you for this clear guide. This could be a solution for me too. Could you please tell me if this insert fix for the BIOS would also works with a HP Z420

(heavy french accent)..."and now lets see if I bricked my motherboard" LOL. Never thought I'd hear that from a French woman after modding her bios to boot from an nvme drive via pcie adapter on a 2012 motherboard. Same one I've got.

Excellent guide, very useful, nicely done ....thank you !

So heavy accent, but it was easy to understand everything you said. Thanks for instructions

Köszönöm! Thank You! Asus P8H77-M ezzel is működik (Axagon PCEM2 adapter és Kingston NV2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 - 1TB) úgy ahogy a videóban. Asus P8H77-M also works with this (Axagon PCEM2 adapter and Kingston NV2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 - 1TB) as in the video.

merci pour ce super tuto avec l'accent très "français" je comprend tous hahaha

I tried something very similar with with a z77 mpower MSI motherboard. The adapter you use for the nvme matters. For some reason some adapters make the m.2 not recognizable at all and others work perfectly.

Thank You so much

not sure what is harder, going through all this or just buying a newer MB which already has the bios with M.2 already flashed on it.. or perhaps buying a bios which has it flashed and replacing the bios chip..

You are amazing. How would the process change or is it even possible on Linux (Fedora 38) on Asus P8H77-M Pro?

Thank you, you help me a lot...😅 From brazil 🇧🇷

THANKS!!!! I LOVE YOU, YOU SAVE MY SSD❤😢🎉

didnt help me and im unsuccessful as I my problem is I dont have another drive to install windows on first on this computer, thats why I want to install windows on the pcie nvme ssd. However cant install modded bios (cant run AI suite) without having windows first :p however great and unique video, could barely find any help about this anywhere at all. hopefully youll help someone else

I love the way you speak. ❤😍

Bravo!

You can be a voice actor for ratatouille 2

you are very good, congratulations I would like to meet you and exchange ideas on PCs and Windows

Very clever......thank you.

J'adore l'accent irlandais... Merci pour la vdo... ;-)

it works😍😍😍thank u very much

Why I still cannot boot via nvme ssd... My bios already flash and detect nvme.. But I still cannot boot using nvme

Nice video, liked your simple steps, can you please make a video how to make z420 boot using nvme ssd, I heard that this work station supports only Samsung 950 nvme ssd, (unfortunately its not available now) is there any other nvme ssd option to use for boot purpose?

Thanks for sharing ❤

thank you you saved my life :)

thank you, it help a lot.

Thank you

I'm subbed to your Sexy French accent..

Damn that voice is so sweet!!!

Muchas gracias, lo logré 👍🏿

mine won't boot ssd nmve and it doesn't show the drive in bios but it does appear in window folders? help

Hi, it’s the same module for motherboard Asus P8Z68-V PRO ? Thank’s

thank you

Can you help me out with MSI ms-7788 mother board. I don't want to use clover bootloader.

Very good

I like your videos ❤ But i have esonic h61 motherboard how to boot this nvme?

Dear SIR , does my asus vanguard b85 also could deal like this ?

Для ga-z77-d3h ,nvme встановив в режимі завантаження UEFi+ Legacy Bios, модифікований біос звісно зашив попередньо. Але встановляв W10х64 саме в такому режимі. NVME в GPT форматі відповідно. Флешку зробив через MediaCreationTool22H2, USB2.0. Все стало. Не вимикав при цьому SSD на Sata 3.0 з W7x64. Bios бачить обидва накопичувача, через пріоритет завантаження у біос, можна обрати яка система буде вантажитись. Це круто, обидві Вінди справно вантажаться, швидко.

H81m cs motherboard not supported solution

i have asus h110mcs motherboard .i wanna install nvme ssd using adaptor . tell me is this works and bootable ?

H81m cs motherboard not working

I hope this is also possible for the X58 Asus Ramapage Extreme III

how to do the same with Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X mother board pls guide me

I'm using Dell T7600, anyone know how to mod dell bios please, bios ver A17

are this is work with asus cm6630 motherboard? what happen when bios update fail?

Excuse me The question, in the file of my MB the region "bios" does not appear, what can I do?

My motherboard is the P8 Z77-M with i-7 CPU. I wanted to know if the tutorial is also valid in my situation. Thank you

so, this is only for specific asus boards?

Six months later and after a careful study of the entire film, I made the indicated change. Inserted the M2 SSD with adapter into the PCIe slot and made it bootable. Everything went very well. Everything perfect on the ASUS P8Z77-M motherboard which was found to be as compatible as the -V. Congratulations to the creator of this video with many thanks. I am available if you have any questions to ask. Six mois plus tard et après une étude minutieuse de l'ensemble du film, j'ai procédé au changement indiqué. J'ai inséré le SSD M2 avec l'adaptateur dans l'emplacement PCIe et l'ai rendu bootable. Tout s'est très bien passé, tout est parfait sur la carte mère ASUS P8Z77-M qui s'est avérée aussi compatible que la -V. Félicitations au créateur de cette vidéo et merci beaucoup. Je suis disponible si vous avez des questions à poser.

i like ur english

What happens when it's not detected by system with "no boot device" massage how can I fix that, I'm using Huawei d15 core i3 processor

Is it possible for Gigabyte motherboard? 😌 G1 Sniper B5

Hello and thank you for this video, too bad it is not explained a little more slowly in French, towards the end I was a bit lost and so I am afraid to make a mistake. My motherboard is an asus maximus VI Formula.

Looks like a good video but I can't understand him

Do I have to use a boring old motherboard for this to work? I have a fun old motherboard. Will this also work on my fun old motherboard?

gracias funciona en mi asus p8p z77 v-lk

Does it work with gigabyte motherboards?

link for module is dead and so is the bios

@Dear brothers, my pc hardware ... Gigabyte A520M Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G processor Samsung 980 500GB PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe SSD But M.2 SSD is not showing during Windows Installation. Please suggest me how do Solv this problem?

I've found a modded bios for my asus P8Z68-V PRO Gen 3 but the file extension do not came in .CAP format, but in .ROM format. Have no ideia how to flash it. Can someone help?

I cant seem to install asus ai suite. Gives me an error saying model not supported. Trying it on asus q87m-e. Can anyone help?

MOD UEFITOOL 0.280 can't extract, error : "the archive is either in unknown format or damaged"

cuando tengo que abrir el archivo de la bios de la placa me sale un error que dice lo siguiente: UEFI volumes not found, alguien sabe que puedo hacer, tengo una placa asus p6t se, que alguien me ayude por favor

It works on legacy bios?

Can you do this with a laptop?

does it work on ga-87 d3hp motherboard?

Hi. I have same CPU and gigabyte b75m-d3h running windows 7 professional. With 0 nvme slot, but several pci express slots... I have adapter just like yours, I would like to just use 1tb wd blue m.2 nvme as an extra storage - no need to boot. Is this possible or do I have to upgrade it to higher version of windows... Thank you.