[SOLVED] Asus Z97-K R2 Bios Help

[boomycol]

Hi! All,

I got a Asus Z97-K R2.01 Motherboard and I'm put in an Lexar Professional NM700 M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 256GB SSD Drive but it wasn't being recognised.

Bios has no NVME settings for it so went to Asus site to update the Bios but the Bios version on the mobo isn't remotely close to whats in the website.

Mobo Bios states

Z97-K Bios Ver.2308

Now to me that looks like its a normal Z97-K bios and not Z97-K R2 bios ?

I downloaded the Z97-K R2 latest Bios 0903 and tried to install it using the EZflash in the bios

But it says its not a proper Bios ?

Now I don't know if I'm doing something stupidly wrong any help be appreciated

 

[Colif]

Have you always had this MB? You didn't buy it off someone else, it came with bios on it now?
Did it come in a prebuilt PC? If so, what brand? Only ask as Cyberpower sold a PC with that model and sometimes they have custom motherboard models

bios range for 2308 more suits https://www.asus.com/me-en/SupportOnly/Z97-K/HelpDesk_BIOS/ but its not on its list, it jumps to 2300 range, goes from 2202 to 2401. So curious... i know that bios doesn't support m.2
2308 may have been a beta bios, its hard to find much on it from 6 years ago.

TBH running m.2 on Z97 is hit and miss at the best of times. Hope you don't want to boot off it as that may be just as hard.

 

[boomycol]

Thanks for the reply Colif.

Yeah its a system I'm upgrading for a friend was from overclockers in the UK , but I sorted it now.

Its a "Z97-K" r2.01 not "Z97-K R2.0". Stupid how Asus they put the references like that makes it so confusing.

Like you say 6 years old and hard to find anything on the Asus website. Found out the 2308 is a feature restrictive bios version which is a bit naughty something to do with the 2nd pci-e slot.

Got the bios updated with the latest from the Z97-K and its recognised the drive after setting SATA 5/6 to M.2. just gotta install windows 10 now.

 

[Colif]

its possible your friends board has the BIOS chip of a Z97-k even though he has the revision

good you worked it out anyway.

 

[boomycol]

Nah it was a Z97-K but its just stupid how Asus have done these boards. Though i would go looking for a board pic to see if R2 as different to what I got and found an image of one on aliexpress. The R2 has it big letters with the Z97-K but even that pic is daft as its R2.0 and in small its REV.2.00 as well so its revision 2 of revision 2 ??

No where on the Asus site makes this clear anywhere its a bit daft tbh.

 

[Colif]

Actually, it probably did, but you can blame Asus anyway. Up until last year you would have seen way more info on the MB site than just its drivers, it would have been like this board and had more than 1 tab - example - https://rog.asus.com/au/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-b550-f-gaming-model/
But they reduced all the details on old boards down to just drivers... and it obviously doesn't work well for boards which had revisions, but they don't care about 6 year old boards now.

I have a Z97 Pro Wifi, up until last year it too had more info than just driver tab.
It wasn't just the Z97 models, it was everything older as well. I used to be able to see my P5N32SLI details on there as well and it was from 2007