Any LGA1366 boards support UEFI or NVME?

[Brian_153]

I recently purchased a PCIE M.2 SSD card (https://ocz.com/us/ssd/rd400-ssd) and tried to install it in my Asus P6x58D Premium to extend the life of my aging system. Need less to say there a few draw backs to this. Not being able to boot to it being the biggest. (and yes I've seen a few threads saying it's possible to get it to boot on non-UEFI boards, but after spending the better part of 5 hours trying, I've given up).

I'm wondering if there is an LGA1366 Board out there that have UEFI and will allow me to boot NVME over PCIE. I'm starting to think that an entire system upgrade is unavoidable which is a shame b/c I still feel that this system has good power and performance despite it's age.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

I can be wrong, but AFAIK, the "oldest" chipset with NVMe boot support was z97. it is possible to use modified bios and to add NVMe boot to z87 (and even z77).
It seems like you will not be able to use it as boot drive until system upgrade.
Though if i'm not wrong, only a small boot partition should be placed on the boot drive - so your SSD will be partially used during boot and after that.

 

[Brian_153]

First, thanks for the response. With the age of the hardware I figured it was a long shot.

But about your suggestion, i'm not sure I follow... Are you saying I could use a SATA drive to point back to the M.2 SSD and boot the OS that way?

 

[n0ns3ns3]

Something like that - i have not tried that, but the boot loader should be on the sata drive, while the main partition on the M.2 drive.
If it was me, i might even try to have a GRUB on the sata drive, while complete windows on M.2