Fatl1ty 990FX Killer Does not see m.2 drive
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Topic: Fatl1ty 990FX Killer Does not see m.2 drive
Posted By: pcbuilder2017
Subject: Fatl1ty 990FX Killer Does not see m.2 drive
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2017 at 11:23pm
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" rel="nofollow - Greetings, I have installed a Samsung m.2 drive on this motherboard. It is not seen in BIOS. Trying different modes with no success. Current mode is AHCI. The Optical Drive is seen in BIOS. Machine will boot in to Windows 10 using the Windows Boot Manager. Not sure why as I did not install any Windows 10-- simply assembled machine and powered on. What should I modify to get BIOS to see m.2 drive for Windows 7 installation?
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Posted By: twf85
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2017 at 2:55am
You need to make sure you have the latest BIOS revision to enable NVMe support. Once you've done that, you should see the drive listed in the BIOS.
I've installed WIN7 with that board on a Samsung 950 Pro. All you need to do is ensure you have the latest BIOS revision, and it should detect the drive just fine. NOTE: If you are using the onboard m.2 slot, it is limited to only 10Gbps, so you won't get the full speed of even a SM951, much less a 950 or 960. Unfortunately, with that board, you should still buy an adapter to plug into one of the PCIe slots to get the full benefit of the PCIe SSD. EDIT: It is a good rule of thumb with WIN7 to only have the drive your are installing the OS to (in this case, your m.2 Samsung drive) connected at the time of installation. EDIT2: One other thing on WIN7.. You may want to "find" a copy of the installation that is UEFI-based. I won't say where you should go looking for it, because that would probably be a breach of the Forum's TOS. That should be enough of a hint. Anyway, I wish I had done that on 3 system's I've built, because now I'll have to muck about to get WIN10 over to UEFI. UEFI based Windows installations load faster, are more secure, and are less prone to the irritating boot errors you see in a CSM based installation (read: power failure boot corruptions).
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pcbuilder2017 wrote: