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Configure maximus extreme 6 for 960 evo in 4x card

Mr_Clean
Level 7
Bios changes from default:
Extreme Tweaking: Turbo to 4.6, Dram Frequency to 1866, AI Overclock Tuner to XMP (Corsair vengeance pro series 86cC6)
Advanced: PCH Config/Pci Express/pcie speed to gen 2, System Agent Configuration/NB Pcie Configuration/Pcie Link Speed Gen 3 for all slots,
On Board Devices Configuration to HD Audio and Bluetooth disabled......There is an exclamation mark on the category "Advanced"
I don't know what it wants, It Was there after bios battery was removed for 60 seconds to reset bios to default.
Boot: CSM/boot from storage devices and boot from pcie expansion devices to UEFI first

I loaded OS to mechanical hard drive, loaded motherboard driver and loaded Samsung 2.1driver. A Samsung 960 evo is loaded on to Asus Hyper M.2 Mini and installed onto an 8x slot. The 960 was converted to gpt and then formatted. The os was as cloned to the 960, mechanical drive was removed and 960 installed. Clearly there is a confirmation issue, but I don't know what. Can you please help.
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Mr_Clean
Level 7
Bios was successfully flashed to 1603x64, looking at asus site, this is the latest bios available.

The evo is not seen in the bios as a boot option.

When boot to a mechanical drive, the OS does see the drive.

I can clone the mechanical too the evo, but bios never see's the Samsung 960 evo

I am a complete loss as to the issue/bios configuration necessary.

Well, having a similar problem with a different mobo/cpu combo, but two things come to mind:
- is your cpu 28 lanes?
- if so, can you try to disable PCIe ports you're not using (by software or hardware) in your mobo?

From what I've been reading if the CPU is not a 40 lanes one, it has problems managing the PCIe slots and devices.
So we either upgrade our CPU's (don't feel like it personally) or we manage the PCIe slots by some way.

Was hopping for a bios upgrade that allowed us to do that, but better cover my chances before that happens.

Malahmen wrote:
Well, having a similar problem with a different mobo/cpu combo, but two things come to mind:

I am sorry to say I discovered why I could to get it to work..

Bios updates to work with NMVe drives "only" goe back to z97 motherboards (with bios update) and not back to 87 motherboards.

So even with the most current bios, no NMVe support is available.

Now, if you have and are staying with z87motherboard and processor, I see only one way to get near NMVe speed, as I had done.

Get a 8X raid card and several ssd's in a raid 0. I got an Acrea 1213-4 8X raid card going to "4" 60 gig corsair F ssd's in a raid 0.

This provided a proven 2200 read and 1440 write speeds. However, there is always however..... your boot time will be much longer as the raid card bios takes a while to get through, but once booted, it screams.

The big question seems to be what series chipset is on your motherboard.

My solution was to purchase a z97 motherboard and use an asus m.2 mini card in 4X slot.
(After updating the bios to the newest one on the manufacturer's site.)

I am still waiting receiving my new motherboard and would be happy to let you know the results.

Since I have a 4970K processor, I had to get a motherboard with a 1150 socket.

Mr.Clean wrote:
Malahmen wrote:
Well, having a similar problem with a different mobo/cpu combo, but two things come to mind:

I am sorry to say I discovered why I could to get it to work..

Bios updates to work with NMVe drives "only" goe back to z97 motherboards (with bios update) and not back to 87 motherboards.

So even with the most current bios, no NMVe support is available.

Now, if you have and are staying with z87motherboard and processor, I see only one way to get near NMVe speed, as I had done.

Get a 8X raid card and several ssd's in a raid 0. I got an Acrea 1213-4 8X raid card going to "4" 60 gig corsair F ssd's in a raid 0.

This provided a proven 2200 read and 1440 write speeds. However, there is always however..... your boot time will be much longer as the raid card bios takes a while to get through, but once booted, it screams.

The big question seems to be what series chipset is on your motherboard.

My solution was to purchase a z97 motherboard and use an asus m.2 mini card in 4X slot.
(After updating the bios to the newest one on the manufacturer's site.)

I am still waiting receiving my new motherboard and would be happy to let you know the results.

Since I have a 4970K processor, I had to get a motherboard with a 1150 socket.


to me, since I might even try to sli sometime in the future, I think I'll go for the 40 lane processor and let the board handle the ssd by putting the pcie on.
although I won't change my mind that this is a poor option for such a mobo, not letting us manage which pcie slots we want on/off on a 28 lane cpu.

from this day on I wont recommend this mobos to anyone.
its not going to be my responsibility if some guy has the bad luck to buy a cheaper processor and the mobo strands him out from her full potential because her software doesn't like its cpu. 🙂

if the problem was the SSD disk, you would even see the drive when booting from a pen to start installing the SO like I did.
its after that when booting normally that the SSD gets banned from existence because its slot gets disabled.