GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 - cant see samsung M2 950 drive in windows installation

[boristhemidget]

hi Folks, i am having trouble installing windows 8 on my machine, with an samsung 950 pro M2 drive - model number Mz-v5p256.

The drive shows up in the bios, but windows cant see it during the setup screen, even when i add the driver from the supplied cd

I've also tried the driver from the following page:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5478#

Intel SATA Preinstall driver
(For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Note: Windows setup to read from USB thumb drive.
OS:Windows 7 64bit,Windows 8.1 64bit,Windows 10 64bit

http://download.gigabyte.asia/FileList/Driver/mb_driver_intel_bootdisk_irst_64_100series.zip

Is there any specific settings i need to configure in the BIOS or any particular drivers i need to use during windows setup?

[dmdilks]

I don't know if this will help. But Have your Installation media the first boot. Plus have it set to UEFI too. One other thing have this set to windows 8 " Windows 8/10 features".

[boristhemidget]

Hi, thanks for the advice. Just tried it, switched the DVD drive to first in the boot order and set uefi mode, no luck :c(

[absic]

Hi there, I faced a similar issue with a Z170 rig I was putting together for my son the other day.

I found that creating a USB install disk for Windows 8 using Rufus or the Windows Download tool overcame the problem. The drive didn't show-up using a DVD install disk but it did when I installed from a bootable USB Pendrive. Also, I didn't need to add the pre-install drivers for everything to work OK.

Don't know if this will help in your situation but it might be worth a try.

[boristhemidget]

thanks! will give it a whirl when i get home this evening, appreciate the advice!

[prentboy]

Be very careful which rufus option you choose I went for the bios /uefi /csm one and win 10 takes a minute to boot with a m2!  I think you are supposed to use the gsm option not the other mbr ones.

[boristhemidget]

ohh kay, so, i used rufus, no success, and then i stumbled on a reddit post with a huge list of WHQL certified drivers.

http://www.win-raid.com/t29f25-Recommended-AHCI-RAID-and-NVMe-Drivers.html

and good lord, it now lets me see the drive, but its giving me the "windows cannot be installed on this drive" rubbish.

so close, yet so far.. LOL

[boristhemidget]

ohh kay, it looks like that the issue is that when i stick a usb drive into my pc to install the driver, windows mounts the usb drive as the first and the ssd as the second drive and it refuses to install... if i can get the m2 to show up as drive 0, i'd be fine.

i've played with this now for 3 hours, and i have no idea how to fix it.

any thoughts?

[boristhemidget]

ohhh kay, long story short.

set all boot modes to uefi and install windows 10 via USB, and it worked fined.

screw you windows 8!

[sparki]

GA-Z170X-UD3 (and other Z170 motherboards)
i7-7600K
Samsung SM951 NVMe (MZVPV512HDGL-00000)

Trying to install windows 10, receive a message saying something like 'missing driver'

GigaByte Support ticket, 7 day response time that didnt help!!
I wish I could run my IT support company like that!!

The issue also occurs for me with JUST a SATA 500Gb HDD, so not a driver/NVMe issue

I used vLite to integrate the HP NVMe driver and GigaByte util to add the USB drivers to the USB stick


The issue was resolved by:

 - boot from the windows 10 (or windows 7, both have the same issue) USB stick.

 - once into the setup and have a mouse pointer, before clicking anything, remove the USB drive from the computer.

 - click next/continue, the installation wizard will run through until a pop up saying something like 'missing driver'

 - plug the USB stick into a DIFFERENT USB port

 - Wait for the USB drive to be found by the system (60 seconds or so)

 - hit the 'rescan' button and the installation continues


I am a 3rd line Hardware Systems Engineer with over 25 years experience and have never seen this before. This took me over 20 hours to just to get windows installed, with NO help from GigaByte... VERY POOR.

[dmdilks]

I am a 3rd line Hardware Systems Engineer with over 25 years experience and have never seen this before. This took me over 20 hours to just to get windows installed, with NO help from Gigabyte... VERY POOR.

I have been doing this for over 30 yrs and the stuff I have read. The problems with the Z170 series board I just can't believe. From installing windows, memory, audio, can't see drive & so on.

Reading a lot of post saying they are having problem with this need driver problem. One thing I notice that most every body that does have this problem. They are using a USB drive to install windows.

I have widows 7 & 10 installed. But I used a DVD to install windows. The other thing is on these new Z170 boards you have to have things set just right to install windows too. More with windows 10 than windows 7. 

[boristhemidget]

Yerp, gigabytes support is freaking horrible. I still have an open ticket for this!! "pending response".

What did help tho was getting Rufus with USB install, using UEFI. Windows 10 was fine, windows 8 i fought with.

i was pissed i was forced to buy a windows 10 license :-/