Hello volks,
this guide was developed on the ground based work of Fernando in the WIN Raid Forums.
He developed the NVMe Support and the update procedures. Im very thankful and proud of Fernando's work.
Without it, we would never have NVMe support on our older generations Notebooks..
I recently modded my BIOS and now it supports the NVMe Protokoll.
I want to share some experience I made during modding my BIOS,
so that anyone who owns the G751 with an M.2 slot should get a NVMe drive to work.
I dont take any responsibility if you make modifications and somehow brick your BIOS.
I strongly recomment to decide yourself if you want do the BIOS Mod or not.
Its not quite difficult to mod the ASUS G751-JY BIOS. I will give you an easy Guide you can follow step by step.
My System is a G751-JY with 24GB of RAM Georce GTX 980m 4GB and Windows 7 prof. 64
OK, lets start.
What you need:
- actual BIOS Vers. 211 / if not yet installed, please download the Update from ASUS support and install it yousing Easy-Flash in the BIOS.
- AMI Firmware Updater (afuwin64) from AMI for Aptio 4
- MMTool for Aptio 4
- UEFITOOL_0.2.2.1
- EFI NVMe BIOS Module
You can find the actual downloads on the win-raid forums.
https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI...
This guide was also done with the ground based work of fernando.
Please ask him for further support
1. First of all, downoad all the needed files into a new Folder and Name it "BiosMod"
2. Now we are going to make a copy of the present BIOS using afuwinx64. Start the AFUWINGUI
3. Hit the save Buttom and store your actual copy of your BIOS in a seperate Folder and name it afuwin.rom
4. Copy the afuwin.rom (your EFI BIOS without Capsule) to the MMTOOLs Folder
5. Start MMTooL and Load the afuwin.rom Image
6. Click "Create Report" and close MMTooL.
7. Now open UEfiTool_0.2.2.1 and load the afuwin.rom image by clicking "File" and "Open Immage file" and select
aufwin.rom
8. Now that you loaded your BIOS in Uefitools hit the "File" Buttom --> "Search" select "Text" and enter DXE in the searchfield
9. Hit "OK" and doubleclick at "interface section at offset Ch"
10 . Scroll down to the LANDriver DXE driver and click the right Mouse buttom and hit "Insert After..."
11. Select the "NvmExpressDxe_3.ffs
12. Now you have insert the DXE NVME driver Module in the free memory space below the LanDriver DXE Module. Now you Click "File" and "Save Image file..."
13. Save the new romfile and name it 211nvme.rom
14. Click "Yes" for Open reconstructed file? and parse again if the NVME Module is correctly installed between the LanDXE_Module and the free Space
15. Copy the new 211nvme.rom file to the MMTools Directory.
16. Start MMTool and load the new 211nvme.rom and click create Report. Close MMTool
17. Now you can open both the old afuwin.rpt Textfile and the new 211nvme.rpt Textfile and compare them.
18. Compare the afuwin.rpt and the 211nvme.rpt and you should get the same Text as I have
19. Now that we have checked everything, we are going to flash the new BIOS
20. Open afuwingui hit "Open" and select the "211nvme.rom file" Carefully look at the Lenght of the File it should have exactly 6.144KB as your afuwin.rom also.
Maybe the length could differ from BIOS to BIOS but i think it should be that value.
21. Now we are ready to Flash the new BIOS. Attach your powersupply and close all unneeded Programs
22. Hit the "Flash" buttom and enjoy your computer gets upgraded with NVMe support.
Now that we programed the new BIOS, you can attach a new NVMe SSD at the M.2 socket.
Notice: there is no Drive Listing in the PCIe SSD field or it even disappeared in the BIOS, but dont be afraid.
If the NVMe SSD is bootable, you should get a BOOT Option like I have: Windows Boot Manager.
Here is an overview of my HWInfo:
I hope you find this Guide useful. IF so, you can leave some comments.
Thanks also to the WinRaid Forum for Supporting me with the DXE Drivers.
If you want, feel free to contact me:
I can create check and send the modified 211nvme.rom Bios File file to you, if you send me your saved Bios with afuwin (valid only for G751having a PCIe x4 M.2) Than you only need to Flash the new Bios with AfuWin64 without to be afraid bricking your G751.
Just send my an E-Mail to: chris-tronic@gmx.de
Regards
Christian Karbe ( Informatic / Computer Enginneer)
[And again, if your unsure if you wanna do the Flash, better do not. I will not be responsible for any damage.
Have Fun
Christian
this guide was developed on the ground based work of Fernando in the WIN Raid Forums.
He developed the NVMe Support and the update procedures. Im very thankful and proud of Fernando's work.
Without it, we would never have NVMe support on our older generations Notebooks..
I recently modded my BIOS and now it supports the NVMe Protokoll.
I want to share some experience I made during modding my BIOS,
so that anyone who owns the G751 with an M.2 slot should get a NVMe drive to work.
I dont take any responsibility if you make modifications and somehow brick your BIOS.
I strongly recomment to decide yourself if you want do the BIOS Mod or not.
Its not quite difficult to mod the ASUS G751-JY BIOS. I will give you an easy Guide you can follow step by step.
My System is a G751-JY with 24GB of RAM Georce GTX 980m 4GB and Windows 7 prof. 64
OK, lets start.
What you need:
- actual BIOS Vers. 211 / if not yet installed, please download the Update from ASUS support and install it yousing Easy-Flash in the BIOS.
- AMI Firmware Updater (afuwin64) from AMI for Aptio 4
- MMTool for Aptio 4
- UEFITOOL_0.2.2.1
- EFI NVMe BIOS Module
You can find the actual downloads on the win-raid forums.
https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI...
This guide was also done with the ground based work of fernando.
Please ask him for further support
1. First of all, downoad all the needed files into a new Folder and Name it "BiosMod"
2. Now we are going to make a copy of the present BIOS using afuwinx64. Start the AFUWINGUI
3. Hit the save Buttom and store your actual copy of your BIOS in a seperate Folder and name it afuwin.rom
4. Copy the afuwin.rom (your EFI BIOS without Capsule) to the MMTOOLs Folder
5. Start MMTooL and Load the afuwin.rom Image
6. Click "Create Report" and close MMTooL.
7. Now open UEfiTool_0.2.2.1 and load the afuwin.rom image by clicking "File" and "Open Immage file" and select
aufwin.rom
8. Now that you loaded your BIOS in Uefitools hit the "File" Buttom --> "Search" select "Text" and enter DXE in the searchfield
9. Hit "OK" and doubleclick at "interface section at offset Ch"
10 . Scroll down to the LANDriver DXE driver and click the right Mouse buttom and hit "Insert After..."
11. Select the "NvmExpressDxe_3.ffs
12. Now you have insert the DXE NVME driver Module in the free memory space below the LanDriver DXE Module. Now you Click "File" and "Save Image file..."
13. Save the new romfile and name it 211nvme.rom
14. Click "Yes" for Open reconstructed file? and parse again if the NVME Module is correctly installed between the LanDXE_Module and the free Space
15. Copy the new 211nvme.rom file to the MMTools Directory.
16. Start MMTool and load the new 211nvme.rom and click create Report. Close MMTool
17. Now you can open both the old afuwin.rpt Textfile and the new 211nvme.rpt Textfile and compare them.
18. Compare the afuwin.rpt and the 211nvme.rpt and you should get the same Text as I have
19. Now that we have checked everything, we are going to flash the new BIOS
20. Open afuwingui hit "Open" and select the "211nvme.rom file" Carefully look at the Lenght of the File it should have exactly 6.144KB as your afuwin.rom also.
Maybe the length could differ from BIOS to BIOS but i think it should be that value.
21. Now we are ready to Flash the new BIOS. Attach your powersupply and close all unneeded Programs
22. Hit the "Flash" buttom and enjoy your computer gets upgraded with NVMe support.
Now that we programed the new BIOS, you can attach a new NVMe SSD at the M.2 socket.
Notice: there is no Drive Listing in the PCIe SSD field or it even disappeared in the BIOS, but dont be afraid.
If the NVMe SSD is bootable, you should get a BOOT Option like I have: Windows Boot Manager.
Here is an overview of my HWInfo:
I hope you find this Guide useful. IF so, you can leave some comments.
Thanks also to the WinRaid Forum for Supporting me with the DXE Drivers.
If you want, feel free to contact me:
I can create check and send the modified 211nvme.rom Bios File file to you, if you send me your saved Bios with afuwin (valid only for G751having a PCIe x4 M.2) Than you only need to Flash the new Bios with AfuWin64 without to be afraid bricking your G751.
Just send my an E-Mail to: chris-tronic@gmx.de
Regards
Christian Karbe ( Informatic / Computer Enginneer)
[And again, if your unsure if you wanna do the Flash, better do not. I will not be responsible for any damage.
Have Fun
Christian
Thank you @chris_tronic for this nice guide and thread.
The insertion of the NVMExpressDxe into the Bios 2.11 worked like a charm and was done in half an hour (ASUS G751JT 16GB & Wifi mod Intel AC8265).
I did a clean Windows 10 Pro x64 v1803 (UEFI, GPT, Secure Boot on & CSM off) install from USB stick without facing any problems.
The Samsung Magician tool recognizes the drive and trim is working.
Thanks to you there is no need for buying "special outdated" M.2 modules 🙂
CU Det_Hot
Benchmark:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 6.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1662.474 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1547.239 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 😎 : 1042.235 MB/s [ 254451.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 😎 : 1003.171 MB/s [ 244914.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 409.285 MB/s [ 99923.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 593.535 MB/s [ 144906.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 42.332 MB/s [ 10335.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 113.865 MB/s [ 27799.1 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 65.8% (305.9/465.2 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2018/07/20 23:28:13
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 17134] (x64)
Samsung Magician reports:
Device Manager extract:
The insertion of the NVMExpressDxe into the Bios 2.11 worked like a charm and was done in half an hour (ASUS G751JT 16GB & Wifi mod Intel AC8265).
I did a clean Windows 10 Pro x64 v1803 (UEFI, GPT, Secure Boot on & CSM off) install from USB stick without facing any problems.
The Samsung Magician tool recognizes the drive and trim is working.
Thanks to you there is no need for buying "special outdated" M.2 modules 🙂
CU Det_Hot
Benchmark:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 6.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1662.474 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1547.239 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 😎 : 1042.235 MB/s [ 254451.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 😎 : 1003.171 MB/s [ 244914.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 409.285 MB/s [ 99923.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 593.535 MB/s [ 144906.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 42.332 MB/s [ 10335.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 113.865 MB/s [ 27799.1 IOPS]
Test : 1024 MiB [C: 65.8% (305.9/465.2 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2018/07/20 23:28:13
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 17134] (x64)
Samsung Magician reports:
Device Manager extract:
Hi
Thanks for the Guide.
Is there any way to make the SSD run in PCIe 3.0 X4 mode??
Meanwhile both the ssd supports PCIe 3.0 X4 Interface but I'm not sure about the MB!
Thanks for the Guide.
Is there any way to make the SSD run in PCIe 3.0 X4 mode??
Meanwhile both the ssd supports PCIe 3.0 X4 Interface but I'm not sure about the MB!
Hello Fernando 1,
thanks for the hints and link to the Win-Raid Forum. I tried your approach as described in your thread and it did work fine for me as well.
One point to mention here: the area "BIOS region" cannot be found in the G751JT Bios v2.11. After "UEFI image" the DXE-section begins here:
Nevertheless the full version of NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs can be inserted at the end of this section without any problem:
CU Det_Hot
thanks for the hints and link to the Win-Raid Forum. I tried your approach as described in your thread and it did work fine for me as well.
One point to mention here: the area "BIOS region" cannot be found in the G751JT Bios v2.11. After "UEFI image" the DXE-section begins here:
Nevertheless the full version of NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs can be inserted at the end of this section without any problem:
CU Det_Hot
