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I recently purchased a M2 SSD, the lovely Samsung MZ-V7E1T0BW 970 EVO 1 TB V-NAND M.2 PCI Express Solid State Drive, Black
My motherboard is ΑSUS MAXIMUS VII RANGER
After some research, and reading a few posts in here, i decided to go with a PCIE adaptor in order to use the most of the speed of this SSD, as apparaently the onboard M2 slot limits the speed quite a bit.
For that reason i also bought together the M2 PCIe SSD Adapter, x4 PCIe 3.0
All the items were delivered yesterday and installed them into the PCIE port.
Computer started fine and the new disk is visible in Disk Management, and after a format ready to be used.
Installed the Samsung Magician software as well and even updated the drivers of my other older Samsung SSD (840).
My main plan however was to use this new 970 disk as a primary and install Windows, so after preparing a USB boot stick i restarted and went into BIOS.
In the boot options however, i could not find the new 970 SSD..
(Initially i had some other issues with the GPT ..etc but werre resolved after using DISKPART commands, but i ended up cleaning it fresh as there were some extra partitions )
After reading some articles here and there, i tried a fix by disabling the CSM and changing the secure boot option to Other OS and not UEFI , but when i did that the PC could not boot as there was no disk to boot from.
The new drive works fine it is just that i cannot use it the way i wanted to.
Worst case scenario is to use the old 840 SSD for Windows and all programs/games with the new one.
My other HDs are a Samsung 840 and a WD .
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I recently purchased a M2 SSD, the lovely Samsung MZ-V7E1T0BW 970 EVO 1 TB V-NAND M.2 PCI Express Solid State Drive, Black
My motherboard is ΑSUS MAXIMUS VII RANGER
After some research, and reading a few posts in here, i decided to go with a PCIE adaptor in order to use the most of the speed of this SSD, as apparaently the onboard M2 slot limits the speed quite a bit.
For that reason i also bought together the M2 PCIe SSD Adapter, x4 PCIe 3.0
All the items were delivered yesterday and installed them into the PCIE port.
Computer started fine and the new disk is visible in Disk Management, and after a format ready to be used.
Installed the Samsung Magician software as well and even updated the drivers of my other older Samsung SSD (840).
My main plan however was to use this new 970 disk as a primary and install Windows, so after preparing a USB boot stick i restarted and went into BIOS.
In the boot options however, i could not find the new 970 SSD..
(Initially i had some other issues with the GPT ..etc but werre resolved after using DISKPART commands, but i ended up cleaning it fresh as there were some extra partitions )
After reading some articles here and there, i tried a fix by disabling the CSM and changing the secure boot option to Other OS and not UEFI , but when i did that the PC could not boot as there was no disk to boot from.
The new drive works fine it is just that i cannot use it the way i wanted to.
Worst case scenario is to use the old 840 SSD for Windows and all programs/games with the new one.
My other HDs are a Samsung 840 and a WD .
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