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Gigabyte AMI UEFI BIOS : M.2 drive name never appears in F12 Menu

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dmdilks:
I just had something like that happen to me. I had to really boot the drive with windows on it from the other drive. The SSD didn't have a boot manager on it. When I install windows I never have another drive connected with with a boot manager on it. Windows has a bad habit of doing things like this.

One thing to prove the point. He should disconnect the 2 drives and see if the M.2 boots more likely not.

thestarman333:

--- Quote from: dmdilks on April 07, 2022, 02:37:37 pm ---I might be wrong but what is happening here is you have other drives with the windows boot manager. What you have to do is if you want the M.2 to have a boot manager you have to disconnect the other 2 drives.

--- End quote ---

Hello dmdilks (and to shadowsports too), Well, that's not the issue. None of the drives had an OS installed on it with any other drive connected to the system! Each was done completely independent of the other, and each one has a totally different U/EFI partition; with its own entries and checksums, and an independent Windows boot manager for Win 10 in each drive.  I am well aware of the problems people can have when they forget to install Windows with only the drive they want to boot from connected to the PC.

I am as I stated, hoping "...someone [here] can provide a link to where I first saw this issue posted for another Gigabyte motherboard!" That post may be on another website, but it had the same camera images with blank slots that he had to click on in the F12 menu; which is why I tried doing an image search for it. I thought for sure I had saved the URL, but at like 3:30 AM, I was mistaken due to lack of sleep.

Dan

dmdilks:
Ok I reread you 1st post and my brain chick in. I had something almost like that with a new Z690 board. I couldn't see the M.2 drive in the bios. When I 1st got the board I had to install the NMVe drivers before I installed windows. But even after I installed windows the drive still didn't show up in the Bios. But it did install the boot manager.

Contacted support and they gave me updated bios. Then everything was fine after that. Now if I wanted to do a clean install. I didn't need to install the NVMe drivers and now it showed up in the bios.

I would contact support and see what they can do. You might able to RMA it and they could fix it.   

thestarman333:
Regarding the TITLE I gave this post: If I could alter it, I would add something at the end like: "...unless no bootable SATA drives are connected, or not disabled for booting!" (Which I did not figure out until after my initial post.)

As dmdilks signature says: "If it isn't broke don't fix it," would tend to make me not want to have anything to do with yet another GIGABYTE BIOS update, since I am able to boot up my PC as is, with all 3 drives connected, now that I know which blank line to select _if I need to do so_; which might be anytime I boot up the PC from a USB drive! It did so already, but that was before I found out how to "Disable" booting from either SATA drive in the BIOS.

I've attached a screen grab (which the BIOS itself will do, if you have a FAT32 USB drive connected, and press F12 only while you are inside the BIOS code; do not confuse this with the F12 Boot Menu) of how to do that in the BIOS; so I chose "Disable" for both "P4" and "P5"... which is how I finally got the M.2 drive to appear in the F12 Boot Menu!

As I wrote above, and believe it's worth stating again: GIGABYTE never should have signed off on a BIOS that gave SATA drives 'priority' over any M.2 (NVMe) drives when both types of ports are on the same motherboard!


Dan, TheStarman.

dmdilks:
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

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