Question How do I update the BIOS ?

[kory2285]

How do I update my BIOS ? its a Yunir TG-h81g573 motherboard with a GTX 1060 3GB and a Xeon CPU.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

First question, exactly WHY do you think that you need to be updating the BIOS? It is very rarely necessary and risks bricking the motherboard if it doesn't go well.

 

[kory2285]

its a new mobo

also cant install windows 10

 

[USAFRet]

also cant install windows 10

Why not?
What exact problems are you seeing?

Following this, exactly where does it fail?

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[kory2285]

m.2 will not show on bios or disk manager
how can I fix this on this TG-H81g573 Yunir motherboard?

 

[COLGeek]

If the SSD does not appear in the BIOS, then you may have a defective SSD. Do you know if it works in any other system?

Also, does your BIOS have a setting to enable/disable the m.2 socket itself?

What is the make/model of the SSD you are trying to use?

 

[BFG-9000]

H81 chipset did not generally support NVMe boot. Support for that was backported to it by some big-name-brand motherboard manufacturers with their later BIOSes. But when you choose a no-name Chinese manufacturer for your motherboard, then you forego such support and can only use such a drive for additional storage, not boot.

You can ask one of the BIOS-mod forums if they can modify your BIOS, but usually you have to point them to a factory BIOS they can download to mod for you, so good luck with that when the manufacturer is so fly-by-night they don't even have a website. Without a manufacturer supplied utility you would have to remove the BIOS chip and read it in a programmer to have them look at it, and frankly that's too much trouble to be worth it for a 12-year old board when Windows 10 support ends in 6 months. Just use SATA to boot from.

There is a workaround where you can boot from USB with the NVMe drivers.

 

[kory2285]

If the SSD does not appear in the BIOS, then you may have a defective SSD. Do you know if it works in any other system?

Also, does your BIOS have a setting to enable/disable the m.2 socket itself?

What is the make/model of the SSD you are trying to use?

SSD is an Huadisk Southern Fist M.2 128GB. This is the M.2 drive
I can't find anything in the BIOS to enable this M.2, but the board has a slot for an M.2.

 

[kory2285]

I have changed the CPU to an I7-4790k. And I installed an SSD. I'm just trying to get a M.2 NVMe SSD to work on this system.

 

[USAFRet]

I have changed the CPU to an I7-4790k. And I installed an SSD. I'm just trying to get a M.2 NV Me SSD to work on this system.

As a secondary, non-boot drive, this can be done.

But don't try to forcefeed an NVMe drive as the boot device.
Your H81 chipset does not support this.
Nor would you see any magical benefit.

What drives, specifically, do you have now?

 

[digitaldata77]

Why not use a 2.5" SSD?? If there is no support for your NVMe drive?

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Agreed. 2.5 ssd drives are cheap enough. Grab a 256gb or 500gb sata ssd and use that. In day to day operation of just using the pc you won’t see a lot of difference. Yes the m.2 is technically faster but in practice the sata ssd should make your old pc feel like a new box.

 

[kory2285]

Mine did not come with an M.2 SSD but it it has a slot for one..

This board is very similar to mine.

 

[PiersPlowman]

If memory serves me correctly, Z97 boards were the first to support NVMe boot.

 

[USAFRet]

If memory serves me correctly, Z97 boards were the first to support NVMe boot.

Some, but not all.
And then, only after updating to the most recent BIOS.

 

[PiersPlowman]

Some, but not all.
And then, only after updating to the most recent BIOS.

Interesting. I had an ASUS z97 with an i5 4690 and an (Biostar!) NVMe drive. Worked at 2x2 speeds, so 800 megabytes / second give or take, but otherwise fine.

 

[kory2285]

H81 chipset did not generally support NVMe boot. Support for that was backported to it by some big-name-brand motherboard manufacturers with their later BIOSes. But when you choose a no-name Chinese manufacturer for your motherboard, then you forego such support and can only use such a drive for additional storage, not boot.

You can ask one of the BIOS-mod forums if they can modify your BIOS, but usually you have to point them to a factory BIOS they can download to mod for you, so good luck with that when the manufacturer is so fly-by-night they don't even have a website. Without a manufacturer supplied utility you would have to remove the BIOS chip and read it in a programmer to have them look at it, and frankly that's too much trouble to be worth it for a 12-year old board when Windows 10 support ends in 6 months. Just use SATA to boot from.

There is a workaround where you can boot from USB with the NVMe driver

I Can't even use it to store games. In windows 11 and it doesn't recognize the m.2 drive nor in the bios. Can u give me a link and point me in the right direction? When I power on my PC there is a red light that flashes on the M.2 PCIE SSD, but I can't find it to allocate it and use it. not showing in the bios or disk manager. PLEASE help me.

 

[USAFRet]

I Can't even use it to store games. In windows 11 and it doesn't recognize the m.2 drive nor in the bios. Can u give me a link and point me in the right direction? When I power on my PC there is a red light that flashes on the M.2 PCIE SSD, but I can't find it to allocate it and use it. not showing in the bios or disk manager. PLEASE help me.

Then it is very possible that your wildly off brand motherboard does not support an NVMe drive.
Or at least not with whatever BIOS is on it.

 

[BFG-9000]

In that case the PCIe bus may not even be connected to the M.2 slot so it might only accept SATA M.2 drives, not NVMe. Without motherboard documentation though we cannot be sure of what it is.

If it was connected to PCIe, Windows should see the NVMe drive directly and install drivers for it automatically, so the drive would be available only after the driver loads and not before Windows boots. But if it accepts SATA M.2 drives then you may actually be able to boot from it with the right drive

 

[JeffreyP55]

If memory serves me correctly, Z97 boards were the first to support NVMe boot.

Gigabyte GA-Z97X Gaming 1 does not have an M.2 slot. The gaming 7 has one bootable slot. I have owned both in the past. Still running Linux on the gaming 7 4970k GTX1080 ti (overkill) 32gigs DDR3.