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Edited by Aristoc - 21 Nov 2016 at 4:03am

Aristoc wrote: Final config: X99M Killer, BIOS updated from 1.9 to 3.0 locally by programmer. i7 6800K NH-D9L Plextor PX-512M8PeG M8P Series 2.5" 512GB PCIE NVME M.2 Radiator Gen3x4 Internal SSD, Red-in-Black Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz CL14 Quad-Channel DIMMs - Black (CMK32GX4M4A2400C14) EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC Gaming ACX 3.0 Black Edition 1594/1784 8GB GDDR5  08G-P4-5173-KR Crosair 100R Silent  The early BIOS that came with the board was the 'killer' part of this whole build. It did not work with i7 6800K. I found a local person who prorgrammed my chip and it worked. I followed the steps from post 1. It's very accurate except for a couple of notes. You don't have to have your Win10 Serial Number when using USB stick from a previoulsy upgraded Win10 OS on the old computer. But, you do have to click on Custom Set up a couple of tries before the software seems to agree with you and keeps going on to the install. Durnig the first configuration of the UEFI, my USB was listed in the BOOT #3 Option. I was worried because my M.2 was actually listed already in the BOOT#1. I was surprised to see it after reading the OP.  I also didn't find UEFI anywhere in the three BOOT order options as described on page 1 here. I ended up ignoring this and just saved and exited and then the restart took over and Windows installed in about 10 minutes or so.  In the end I would have made sure all my parts had the correct BIOS and compatabilities with each other but I was taking my chances. So far so good.  Thanks for the tips and suggestions along the way.

Glad this guide helped you.

ASRock, or any manufacture's X99 mother boards that existed before Broadwell-E processors were available, require the use of a Haswell-E processor in the board to perform the UEFI/BIOS update, if they did not have the Broadwell-E compatible UEFI version from the factory. That is a limitation that Intel has not bee able to overcome since the previous X79 HEDT chipset boards.

Or as you were able to do, flash the UEFI chip in the board to the Broadwell-E compatible version, with a firmware flashing tool. Neither Intel nor the mother board manufactures enjoy advertising this situation, but it seems it's the mother board manufactures that suffer most of the grief from users about it. There is no other way around this limitation, the requirement of the Broadwell-E CPU microcode to be in the UEFI firmware before a Broadwell-E processor will work in an X99 board.

I'm not sure of the sequence of events, but the first time you configure the UEFI with either of the CSM setting options, you must Save and Exit the UEFI before those settings will be applied. Just like any change to the UEFI/BIOS settings, like an over clock of the CPU, memory, etc.

If you had gone right back into the UEFI again after the Save and Exit, you should have seen the "UEFI:" prefix entry for the USB flash drive in the boot order

When you did the Save and Exit and did not go into the UEFI, after configuring the CSM option,  the only entries you would have found would be for the USB flash drive. It also would be at the top of the boot order. So what you did works fine, but you simply did not see what the boot order looks like after the CSM option setting was applied.

You'll also see changes in the way the boot order is displayed, the OS drive will be shown as "Windows Boot Manager".

wheelife wrote: Scandisk 16gb yes rear io usb 3.0 windows ISO created from \microsoft download website for media creation tool Also tried with different USB, problem s the same

Did you use the Windows Creation Tool to create the USB flash drive?

If so, most users have problems when using the tool to create the USB flash drive, for use with an NVMe SSD installation.

I don't use that option to create the flash drive. I save the ISO file at the end of the Creation Tool process, and end the tool process.

Next you right click on the ISO file, and select Mount. You'll then see all the files and folders.

You then select all the ISO's files and folders, highlighted, and right click in the highlighted area. Find the Send To option, and select the USB flash drive. It takes a while for the ~3.7GB to be written to the flash drive.

That's how I do it, and always works fine for me. Be sure you select the "UEFI:" prefix entry in the boot order of the USB flash drive. That is really them most essential part of the installation process.

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1236&title=how-to-install-windows-on-a-pcie-ssd

Edited by Aristoc - 30 Nov 2016 at 10:51am

Please help. I followed these instructions and still can't boot. I have the Taichi with updated Bios, and MyDigital Nvme SSD. Trying to boot from USB with Windows7 ISO with both Microsoft patches installed. Neither method works. Method 1 with "UEFI: USB DISK Pro PMAP. Partition 1" as Boot Priority, results in "Reboot and select proper boot device". Method 2 just takes me back to UEFI. Any advice is much appreciated. This is all new territory for me.