Correct BIOS NVME M.2 Settings and other oddities

[oxidation868]

First question is like the title says. I bought a Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E250BW) and I would like to know exactly what settings in the bios do I need to enable to achieve full speeds while in windows.

Second question is every other reboot or so windows takes forever to boot. All hard drives pass SMART. Changed all Sata cables. Reformatted and installed NVME drive with UEFI windows 10 by disabling CSM before hand. When I go into device manager then IDE/ ATA/ ATAPI it shows 2 Standard SATA AHCI Controllers. First one is PCI bus 3 function 1 the other is PCI bus 43. Both have the same driver version 10.0.15063.332 dated 6/21/2006.

Third question when I get these long reboots both my keyboard and mouse start to lag. Ill move the mouse the it will move like 5 seconds later. Same with the keyboard ill start typing and then it will type a few seconds later. Using a wireless keyboard and mouse btw. If I use a wired mouse keyboard all is fine. I've tried all the usb ports on the case and motherboard same situation for the wireless keyboard and mouse, no fix. If I plug the wireless keyboard and mouse to my laptop and can sit all the way back on my couch the signal reaches just fine even if ppl walk by I have zero lag but on this motherboard I have all the lag in the world. I believe is related to the NVME drive or my hard driveS.

Fourth and final question MemTest86 will boot when restarting the computer off of usb but crashes on its own and wont even load. Doesn't even test ram at all. It shows that its trying to start up on the black screen then just crashes. Same exact usb works fine on laptop. Any help would be appreciated thank you.

Oh and by the way im on the latest bios and on the latest windows 10 creators update. All drivers are up to date I used ASUS updater to update drivers. Also I have 7 Hard drives total of 30TB.

[oxidation868]

Tried different ram no luck. I can't find any info in the manual but how many sata drives can you connect while the nvme slot is occupied? I know that with some motherboards 2 of the ports will drop down in speed when nvme is used. I have 6 drives so far in use.

[PeZzy]

According to this image...
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2017/03/amd-ryzen-1800x-and-am4-platform-review/crosshair-...
The M.2 is separate from the other SATA slots.

[Syaoran]

PeZzy wrote:
According to this image...
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2017/03/amd-ryzen-1800x-and-am4-platform-review/crosshair-...
The M.2 is separate from the other SATA slots.

That was actually one of the important reasons that usually slips my mind as to why I also chose this board. MSI's implementation has the M.2 port on their Pro Carbon sharing with SATA5 and SATA 6, so if you use the M.2 port, you have no SATA5 and SATA6. I don't have that many drives currently connected on the Crosshair VI Hero though to currently say there are no issues populating all of the SATA ports with drives while still running the Samsung 960 EVO M.2 drive I am using.

[oxidation868]

Thank you everyone for all your help. Ill try changing the power supply when I have the cash and see if that helps.

[andyliu]

UEFI MemTest86 will need to be set as the first on the boot list in order to boot successfully
you will have to manually go into BIOS and change the order and set the MemTest86 stick to very first one, unless you wanna use the non-UEFI/older version

Would be nice to know what brand of wireless mouse/keyboard you are using, and what brand of the harddrives that you have.
I personally had to replace a working mushkin ssd to get rid of annoying random lag issue even if it's working fine in my other system.

Also, it is also possible to check event viewer in Windows, it might give you more info on what could be causing issue.
When you load into windows, just search for "event viewer", and select "windows logs", then "system"
warning / critical level event can often lead to instability for the system and that's what you should be looking for.
That's how I determine why I was experiencing random lag and found out the mushkin ssd was the reason behind it.

But if wired keyboard doesn't give you issue, I will just grab a wired one and be done with it 😜
or at least grab a newer set of wireless keyboard/mouse to test.

oh and, even though you said you have installed latest update via asus updater, I will still suggest that you go to the support page of your board and download the USB driver to make sure it's actually the latest.