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Gigabyte AMI UEFI BIOS : M.2 drive name never appears in F12 Menu
thestarman333:
--- Quote from: dmdilks on April 08, 2022, 10:10:31 pm ---Just asking does the drive show up in these 2 places in the bios?
NVMe Configuration
Displays information on your M.2 NVME PCIe SSD if installed.
Boot Option Priorities
--- End quote ---
Yes, when selecting the "M.2" button in the BIOS, it always displays the NVMe drive there. And is also displays it in the "Easy Mode" as well. (Some day I may do a complete description on my website, using screen captures of every applicable setting in the BIOS, but I have other more pressing things to work on now.)
I have attached here screenshots which show the "Easy Mode" menu (which I had already described in replies above); which very clearly shows I had selected the M.2 NVMe as the first boot device, _BUT_ it still would not boot from it after saving the BIOS that way (unless I used the F12 Boot Menu), and then another shot showing it does not always appear in the "Advanced Mode" menu... Curiously, ONE TIME ONLY; after doing the BIOS flash (and possibly the very first time I went into the BIOS), it did appear in the "Advanced Menu," even as the FIRST drive to boot from, _BUT_ again, it still would not boot from it! ONLY after I learned later on, that there was a "Disable" choice for both SATA drives (as I showed in my last update above), would it boot directly after making those settings in the BIOS without having to use the F12 Boot Menu one time after whatever settings I made in the BIOS to try to get it to boot from the M.2 drive. So, again, the second screenshot is before I did that, and when it would always boot from a SATA drive instead of the M.2 drive; in spite of having selecting the M.2 drive to be FIRST in the Easy Mode!
ANOTHER Important UPDATE: Today on boot-up, I decided to click on one of the 'empty slots' above the now visible M.2 drive name (after I had "Disabled" the booting of both SATA drives in the BIOS), and just as I had thought it might happen, doing so caused the PC to boot from one of the SATA drives! Conclusion: You can attempt to boot from any drive connected to the PC; and if whatever you click on is bootable, it will do so, but the BIOS F12 Boot Menu will only show the names of either SATA drives or of an M.2 drive, but _not_ both types at the same time!
Dan, TheStarman.
PS: I better describe the circumstances of each screenshot here, since they can be confusing:
1) "M.2NVMeInEasyMode.jpg" -- The M.2 drive name always appears under the "M.2" drive button, and always in the "Easy Mode" of the BIOS. Here you can see that I chose the M.2 drive to be the First to boot.
2) "EasyModeBootOrder.jpg" -- Here's an actual view of choosing the Easy Mode Boot Order; with M.2 drive First.
thestarman333:
Due to 'restrictions' on total size of attachments (or only 2 pics per post), I have to add two more here:
3) "OneTimeOnlyInAdvanced.jpg" -- Immediately after flashing BIOS to latest update, just this one time only, did the M.2 drive name appear in the "Advanced Mode" Boot Order screen... BUT even so, after "Saving the BIOS" like this, it still booted into one of the SATA drives instead of the M.2 drive!
4) "WhatNormallyAppearsInAdvanced.jpg" -- Every other time I looked and have still looked at the "Advanced Mode" Boot Order screen, just like here, the M.2 drive does _not_ appear... EVEN THOUGH it DOES appear in the "Easy Mode".
thestarman333:
HIDDEN FUNCTION!? SOLUTION which boots M.2 drive and shows all 3 drives on F12 Menu!
So, as I'd written above, I had found that by setting both SATA drives to "Disable" in the Boot Order, that would always show the M.2 NVMe drive in the F12 Boot Menu and boot from it; unless I clicked on one of the two 'empty slots' above its name... which would then boot up from a SATA drive.
Well, today, I finally decided to click on something I hadn't before, BECAUSE what the instructions say about it, do not imply at all what it actually did:
"Boot Override
Allows you to select a device to boot immediately. Press <Enter> on the device you select and select Yes to confirm. Your system will restart automatically and boot from that device."
First picture attached shows that screen, and after doing so, it not only booted into the M.2 NVMe drive, but after shutdown and then pressing F12 Key next time, it now shows the M.2 NVMe drive in what I believe is the First boot drive position! (With the two SATA drives appearing above it... Second attached picture. So now, all 3 drives appear at the same time, and ever since I clicked on the M.2 NVMe drive in that F12 Menu, it is still booting into only it.
So, that's why I believe I had to choose the M.2 MVMe drive in the "Boot Override" Menu.... Because if I did not do that, it would boot from one of the SATA drives, and never show the M.2 NVMe drive in the F12 Boot Menu. Again, I still believe this kind of crazy way of having to do this was because either: 1) GIGABYTE and/or AMI BIOS really messed up by giving SATA drives the boot priority over the M.2 NVMe drive, and/or 2) There's some 'flaky' messed up code in the BIOS.
Dan, TheStarman.
dmdilks:
Looking at your screenshots. The two other drives are regular hard drives right? Do they have OS on them? If they don't why do you have a boot manager on them?
I had a gigabyte board one time that I had windows 10 and 7 on it. Windows 7 at times would screw with windows 10. I had other regular hard drives in there too. What I had to do was set it up where the windows 7 was at the end of the line. Not the 2nd boot option.
If you have boot manager on drives that don't need it. They always screw with you main drive. Been doing this for over 40 yrs and I have see basically everything out there.
Maybe I'm missing something on why you need a boot manager on a drive that doesn't need it. Mother boards do some funny things. That is if have something like this it really doesn't know what to do. It is like if you spin the wheel where it will boot nobody knows.
I have one last question if you disconnect the two other drives will the M.2 boot normal?
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