I recently bought a M.2 SSD for an upgrade. I own a 2014 ASUS N751JK notebook (Intel i7 4th generation, NVidia 850M 4GB, 8GB RAM which i upgraded to 16GB), which initially had the 202 BIOS version. The notebook has a M.2 slot, 2 SATA for HDD/SSD slots and 2 RAM slots.
The SSD bought is a SAMSUNG 970 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB. The problem is that the SSD is not visible from BIOS as a bootable device. It is seen from my computer and from the windows installation partitions. The windows completes the instalation in the M.2 but after the restart it goes in a loop with the instalation. When pressing Esc immediately after restart, the SSD does not appear as a boot option in the new window.
It previously ran on windows 10 64bit, initially having from the factory windows 8.1 64bit.
I tried the following:
-doing a clean install and deleting everything from the notebook.
-physically removing the factory 1TB HDD, not giving any other option to boot
-updating the BIOS to the latest version, the 205 version available in the official site.
-Disabling "Launch PXE OpROM policy" from BIOS
-Enabling "Launch PXE OpROM policy" from BIOS
-Launch CSM Enabled/Disabled
-Secure Boot Disabled
-Secure Boot Control Disabled
I believe that in BIOS-Advanced-SATA Configuration the SSD should be visible. Instead it only shows the DVD-RAM and the HDD.
I have seen tutorials on how to "mod" the BIOS, practically adding an extra file to make the BIOS recognise the M.2 SSD but I am aware of the dangers.
I am waiting for your advice on making the notebook boot on the SSD.
Thank you!
The SSD bought is a SAMSUNG 970 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB. The problem is that the SSD is not visible from BIOS as a bootable device. It is seen from my computer and from the windows installation partitions. The windows completes the instalation in the M.2 but after the restart it goes in a loop with the instalation. When pressing Esc immediately after restart, the SSD does not appear as a boot option in the new window.
It previously ran on windows 10 64bit, initially having from the factory windows 8.1 64bit.
I tried the following:
-doing a clean install and deleting everything from the notebook.
-physically removing the factory 1TB HDD, not giving any other option to boot
-updating the BIOS to the latest version, the 205 version available in the official site.
-Disabling "Launch PXE OpROM policy" from BIOS
-Enabling "Launch PXE OpROM policy" from BIOS
-Launch CSM Enabled/Disabled
-Secure Boot Disabled
-Secure Boot Control Disabled
I believe that in BIOS-Advanced-SATA Configuration the SSD should be visible. Instead it only shows the DVD-RAM and the HDD.
I have seen tutorials on how to "mod" the BIOS, practically adding an extra file to make the BIOS recognise the M.2 SSD but I am aware of the dangers.
I am waiting for your advice on making the notebook boot on the SSD.
Thank you!