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Gigabyte X99 Ultra Gaming - BIOS does not see M.2 SSD
Suporex:
It does not show in BIOS at all. If I could not see it in windows I would probably figure it out. Issue is it is not visible in bios at all. Now support wants me to update to F6a bios (currently on F5) but I doubt it will solve anything + F6a bios is beta bios
shadowsports:
--- Quote from: Suporex on November 01, 2016, 01:19:09 pm ---It does not show in BIOS at all. If I could not see it in windows I would probably figure it out. Issue is it is not visible in bios at all. Now support wants me to update to F6a bios (currently on F5) but I doubt it will solve anything + F6a bios is beta bios
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I don't feel you should have to update to a beta bios for x2 support.
-You've tested the drive. good
I'd power off the system. Disconnect power to the board. Pull the battery. Remove, then reseat the drive in its slot. Wait 5 min. Reconnect power. Power on, enter BIOS. Perform a BIOS reset, F10 to save and restart. Enter BIOS again. Leave everything set to defaults and start looking for the drive according to dmdilks suggestion. Defaults enable all controllers/ports and sets the operate mode to AHCI.
Don't see it...
Boot from your windows install media, Set up, select UEFI Prefix for install media... Supply AHCI controller driver (F6)*** option when windows asks for a destination storage device. If it doesn't appear after that, the slot is probably bad.
*** driver should be placed extracted in the root of a FAT32 formatted USB stick. if its an .exe, use the /A switch to extract and copy to the root. I scoured your manual.. nothing more than installation info there, plus, I didn't see any fine print regarding M.2 or SATA ports not being available when they are used together. Did see some processor limitations but they don't apply. I believe you have done your due diligence.
Suporex:
Jeezus Christ, gigabyte support is so bad. That reply that the drive is supported cause so many issues. I don't have PC for a month now. Motherboard is stuck somewhere in USA now, in some warehouse. I was really thinking about buying other mobo like Asus X99 A-II, because a lot of people has this asus mobo I could learn more and at the end I found proper review of Gigabyte x99 Ultra gaming and guess what?
"The M.2 SSD slot (the lowermost M.2 connector) is fed by up to four PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU, thus giving it a 32Gbps bandwidth potential. Drives up to 110mm in length are supported. M.2 SATA SSDs are not supported."
And that's what Samsung 850 EVO M.2 drive exactly is a M.2 SATA drive.
I am so mad now
http://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/luke-hill/gigabyte-x99-ultra-gaming-motherboard-review/3/
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