Rack Z97M WS NVMe booting?

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Samsung SM951-NVMe (256GB) PCIe SSD Review
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nthezone Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 05 Jan 2020 Location: San Antonio, TX Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote nthezone Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Rack Z97M WS NVMe booting? Posted: 05 Jan 2020 at 11:55am
	MZHPV512HDGL do not get the one with a V that here is an article Samsung SM951-NVMe (256GB) PCIe SSD Review [URL= ]https://www.anandtech.com/show/9396/samsung-sm951-nvme-256gb-pcie-ssd-review[/URL]
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nthezone Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 05 Jan 2020 Location: San Antonio, TX Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote nthezone Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jan 2020 at 11:38am
	you will have to either get an 3.0 x 4 pci-e card for the nvme drive or find some AHCI m.2 drives they are hard find. The motherboard was not built with a Nvme pcie controller XP941 AHCI (MZHPU128HCGM MZHPU512HCGL MZHPU256HCGL),SM951 (basicly the 960evo) PCIE-AHCI (MZHPV128HDGM MZHPV256HDGL MZHPV512HDGL) CPU Medics has some asus, gigabyte and msi may have the same issue with this chipset.
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	Hi, i bought a Silicon Power SSD P34A80 that is PCIe 3.0 x4. The Rack Z97M WS has only a Gen2 x2 M.2 connector. But from reading around it should work - just slower. The problem is the SSD is not recognized in the bios. That means i cant set it as boot device. Windows sees it and also ESXi (installation to it works). I guess without a bios update I'm out of luck? Is there a workaround? Maybe something that boots from USB and does see the SSD and than boots the OS?