Fatal1ty 970 Performance/3.1 + Samsung SM951

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   I bought a Fatal1ty Performance/3.1 motherboard because it has support for M.2 with using PCIe x4. I bought the samsung SM951 to use as the boot drive and I have been unsuccessful getting windows to install on it.
The windows installer recognizes the hard drive with 238gb of free space, but it refuses to install onto it. Is this a known compatibility issue? I know this is a relatively new motherboard and the bios is only on its first revision so maybe support hasn't been added.

Has anybody tried a samsung M.2 hard drive as a boot drive yet?

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Elite_Marines Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2015 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote Elite_Marines Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Fatal1ty 970 Performance/3.1 + Samsung SM951 Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 8:03pm
	I bought a Fatal1ty Performance/3.1 motherboard because it has support for M.2 with using PCIe x4. I bought the samsung SM951 to use as the boot drive and I have been unsuccessful getting windows to install on it. The windows installer recognizes the hard drive with 238gb of free space, but it refuses to install onto it. Is this a known compatibility issue? I know this is a relatively new motherboard and the bios is only on its first revision so maybe support hasn't been added. Has anybody tried a samsung M.2 hard drive as a boot drive yet?

Elite_Marines Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2015 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote Elite_Marines Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 9:07pm
	I figured out why I was unable to install windows. The usb I was using wasn't successfully booting in UEFI mode and it would default to regular boot. It wasn't an obvious thing to realize because my boot priority was set to boot first from UEFI. The way I realized it wasn't uefi compatible is by going to the EFI folder on the usb and I noticed it was empty. So I have successfully installed and booted windows 8.1 on my Samsung SM951 256gb M.2 ssd by doing the following: I downloaded an ISO of windows 8.1 using http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media Then I used - http://microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool To create a bootable USB drive that supports UEFI. I Went to the bios -> CSM and changed Legacy Rom to UEFI on the storage setting. Hopefully this helps someone who might be having the same issue, or help someone make a decision on buying the motherboard because although it doesn't say that it supports the SM951, it works just fine.

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 22748	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jul 2015 at 11:26pm
	Thanks for updating with your solution

aberdeen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 23 Oct 2015 Location: RO Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote aberdeen Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Oct 2015 at 1:30am